Wednesday, 29 April 2015

First Aid Kit, Puss N Boots, Frazey Ford, Jenny Lewis, London Grammar and Liliy and Madeliene

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It has been well over a year since I last posted reviews on my latest music purchases, so there are quite a few to mention here. On the...

John Wick, Cinderella and Child 44

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Despite the positive reviews, I found the second half of John Wick  just a collection of scenes of stylised violence. This was disappoint...
Friday, 24 April 2015

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Station Eleven and Before She Met Me

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My wife's sister Anne brought this book with her when she came to visit a couple of weeks ago. She thought I might be interested, alt...
Tuesday, 21 April 2015

Goodbye Pyracantha, Hello New Plants

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When I started digging over where the Pyracantha had been, I didn't realise what a huge root system I had to remove. And enough sto...
Tuesday, 14 April 2015

Tring Book Club - The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

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I read this book over five years ago and when it was chosen for book club, I intended just to skip through it. But the first few pages ha...
Sunday, 12 April 2015

Going, going, gone

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In a rash moment, I decided that the twenty year old Pyracanthra prickly shrub had to go. It had become far too big, and basically divi...
Friday, 10 April 2015

The Absence of War at the Oxford Playhouse

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I have always wanted to see the trilogy of plays written by David Hare which examined British Society at the end of the 20th century, bu...