Easy Retirement

An emotionally charged thriller, No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay is my favourite book of the year. Everyone who reads it will have t...

All the acting in the BBC's production of Little Dorrit is superb. But one performance that stands out is that of Eddie Marson as Mr Pan...

I spent the end of last week scanning all my old black and white family photos. Most were 2" x 2" taken by a box brownie camera. T...

On my continuing quest to see as many of the plays of William Shakespeare as I can, I took the advice of the critic in the Sunday Times and...

You never quite know what you are in for when you go to a Coen Brothers movie. No Country for Old Men was an intense and serious story. How...

I had kept the cutting from the Sunday Times of the 3rd of February as it described a walk in the western Chiltern Hills. Friday was sunny a...

It is amazing how the weather can change. Just over two weeks ago, it was a warm 19C. I n fact it was too warm for Alison's running the ...