No matter how long your time on the planet has been, life always has more to offer. What’s the most recent thing to raise your spirits and make you feel glad to be here? I think it’s time for one of my very simple competitions. Gentle reader: From which popular fictional character are the following […]
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And everything has begun again
Has life ever allowed you to look your own past, your own youth in the face? Everything is always beginning again, your youth is someone else’s youth, your future is your own. The most perfect days are the most unpredictably delightful ones, the days that move off in a new and magical direction you could […]
London is recreating
“London is recreating.” Three simple words to sum up London? London never ceases to reinvent itself, to recreate itself and to work (if I might for a second time quote these words from Clive James*) “its eternal trick of showing the next generation that the possibilities are infinite, and everything has begun again.” Permanent renewal […]
Worry is waste
Have you seen Bicycle Thieves*? If not: You know those critics’ polls of the greatest films of all time, that are pretty much always topped by Citizen Kane? Well, Bicycle Thieves pretty much always places second or third in such lists. And, it delights me to report, with jolly good reason. I finally got to […]
Is this the real life?
Real life? Just fantasy? Is it high time you took just one day out of life to escape from reality? What, truly, is life’s purpose? Is society nought but a cock-up? It is a truth all but universally acknowledged in blogging circles that around this time of year – as people head off on their […]
The flash in the Beatles biographer’s eye
The game is afoot. A new piece of the puzzle is discovered. It was my good fortune to attend the ‘premiere’ screening of the 50th anniversary souped-up, “very clean” re-release of the Beatles film A Hard Day’s Night at the BFI in London on Thursday (3 July 2014). I also got to see one truly […]
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