Went to see Jackie at the weekend. It’s a strange and impressive film. In a way, it’s making something out of not very much – JFK hadn’t had time to make much of a mark (apart from keeping the world up all night during the Bay of Pigs fiasco) and, though Jackie at one point …
I was at the cinema at the weekend (yes, yes, it was my second trip to La La Land, but I had to go, you understand – Child One was back briefly from uni for a 21st birthday party and before I knew it I was booking tickets …) and I was pleased as …
Well, after a vile week, I found the perfect antidote on Saturday – a long lunch with beloved friends, followed by watching the gorgeous movie La La Land. I shamelessly hijacked the lunch part to whinge about the vicious hand fate has recently dealt me, despite the fact that we were supposed to be celebrating …
Child 2 is starting an actual JOB today so last week was all about saying goodbye to things like lie-ins, Netflix and a carefree youth … well, not really but it does seem like a huge step, even if it’s only for two terms before uni starts. So we decided to mark the occasion with …
What a joy to catch up, finally, with the film Brooklyn. Lots of people had told me it was brilliant, and I actually bought the DVD a while ago, but for some reason (life) we hadn’t got round to it …. last night its moment came. I was quite confused for a while as I’d …
One of those eeeek moments at the weekend when we found ourselves accidentally watching a gang-rape-and-murder movie, when all we’d really wanted was a nice cuddly feelgood film. You know how it is, someone’s watched one of the suggestions, another isn’t showing at the right time, and before you know it a family is being …
Review of The Tempest at the Donmar Warehouse, Kings Cross, London
We went to the Royal Academy’s blockbusting Abstract Expressionism exhibition at the weekend and, as usual, I really struggled to get to grips with this (for me) difficult art movement. A part of me looks at the huge canvases, daubed apparently randomly, and I can’t help but think that if I tied paintbrushes to my …
I’m so glad that Cruise International magazine has come out at last, partly because it’s always lovely to have an article in print, and partly because I can now tell you all about our super-swanky holiday this summer. We went on a six star (yes, six! Five stars are just soooo low rent, you know) …
It’s a full six months to the next Mother’s Day, which just happens to fall on March 26th 2017 (I know this because I’ve just Googled it). So, really, you have absolutely no excuse now to be unprepared come the glorious day, given that I’ve given you so much advance warning. But you might well …