Tag Archives: review

Listening To Another Allellujah! #theatre #review

Posted on August 4, 2018 by

I’m breathing hard. The hillside is a mass of tumbled rocks, like a set of ill-shaped marbles that some troll has just cast down the slope. If I could, I might hear the fall of water nearby, some rain swollen … Continue reading →

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Killer Of An Evening #theatrereview #summerheat

Posted on July 27, 2018 by

Boy it’s hot enough to boil a monkey’s bum. So spake Monty Python’s Bruce. But so would spake all Londoners and indeed most Brits just now. What do you do if you are expiring through heat? You go and sit … Continue reading →

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When Absolutes Are Anything But…. #review #theatre

Posted on May 2, 2018 by

I’ve been having a ‘mare with ordering theatre tickets recently. For our last two trips I seem to have managed to order five tickets for each performance. Ordering four might have some logic in that we might take one or … Continue reading →

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Of pies and prisoners #filmreview

Posted on April 27, 2018 by

When I first started work in a legal role, I was less than poorly paid. So much so I sold my bike to fund a holiday. Even then the best we could manage was a trip to the Channel Islands, … Continue reading →

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The F***You Up #filmreview #goodbyechristopherrobin

Posted on October 27, 2017 by

You wonder at some people. I enjoyed Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy so, as a sort of instinct I thought only good of the man. Then, a few days ago he was interviewed in a National Sunday, dissing Winnie … Continue reading →

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It or not to It #film review

Posted on September 29, 2017 by

We have a rule about films. No 18 certificates unless there’s a really compelling reason. Which is a little limiting but workable. So when the Textiliste is invited to a girl’s night out at Spinach, a newish veggie restaurant opposite … Continue reading →

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Ugly lies the bone #theatre #review

Posted on May 27, 2017 by

Beauty is but skin deep, ugly lies the bone Beauty dies and fades away, but ugly holds its own This saying, source unknown is a take on one from the 17th century and resonates today, in our image obsessed culture … Continue reading →

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