Friday, 1 May 2026

10,000 Hits on Songs from Call the Midwife - and rising

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In 2014, I posted this note about Call the Midwife: Nothing on my blog compares with the interest that has been shown on my list of songs fr...
Thursday, 30 April 2026

Stowe Gardens - National Trust

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  The penultimate day of April and our Wednesday excursion took us to the National Trust's Stowe Gardens. I cannot remember going there ...
Wednesday, 29 April 2026

Movies at Home: La Chimera, Funeral in Berlin and Magnolia

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  In La Chimera, we are in Tuscany in the 1980's as Josh O'Connor as Arthur (a British archaeologist) is returning to the scene of t...
Tuesday, 28 April 2026

Sight and Sound Magazine - May 2026

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  Editorial Mike Williams looks at the film posters of Philip Castle and Drew Struzan. Castle was famous for the poster for Stanley Kubrick...
Friday, 24 April 2026

La Grazia, Father Mother Sister Brother and The Drama

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  I was off to the Rex in Berkhamsted to see the Italian film  La Grazia. It was written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, whose earlier mov...
Thursday, 23 April 2026

The Land in Winter, The British Museum Is Falling Down and Karla's Choice

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  The book starts on 7th December 1962. So where was I? I was very nearly eighteen and halfway through my last year at school, studying (not...
Tuesday, 21 April 2026

Bluebells and Beech - Pavis Wood - 2026

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  I have posted most years about the bluebells in Pavis Wood. On Saturday morning at 9am I walked from the car park in Wendover Woods near G...