Friday, 1 January 2021

Friday Five: Best Films of 2020

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In a year of closed cinemas, cancelled releases and straight-to-streaming services (I haven't got any of these), contemporary film-viewi...
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Friday, 25 December 2020

Friday Five: Who's Who on Christmas Day

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Obviously many families are separated this year by disease as well as distance, but through the wonders of modern technology, many of us wer...
Tuesday, 22 December 2020

Boys' Own War Adventure: The Rest is Silence

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The Rest Is Silence  by James R Benn Soho Crime Pp. 323 The writing on the jacket claims that this is “a Billy Boyle World War II Mystery”, ...
Friday, 18 December 2020

Friday Five: Best Theatre of 2020

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What with one thing and another (I think we all know what I mean), I've not had the chance to see much live theatre this year. So most o...
Monday, 14 December 2020

There is no Planet B: The Battle of the Labyrinth

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The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan Disney Hyperion Pp. 361 In this fourth instalment in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians serie...
Friday, 11 December 2020

Friday Five: Christmas Tree Ornaments

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  As we now have kittens in our lives, I managed to persuade Him Outdoors that we needed a tree for their first Christmas. Cats of any age l...
Friday, 4 December 2020

Friday Five: Stitching and Bitching

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Here are another five of my latest cross-stitch creations. The first two patterns and explanations are taken from  Really Cross Stitch; for ...