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Book reviews
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Nobody Hurt In Small Earthquake – Michael Green
Towards The End Of The Morning – Michael Frayn
A Crooked Sixpence – Murray Sayle
Monday Mourning – Kathy Reichs
The Group – Mary McCarthy
Fear And Loathing In Fitzrovia – Paul Willetts
The Daughter Of Time – Josephine Tey
The Man Who Wasn’t There: A Life Of Ernest Hemingway – Richard Bradford
The Maltese Falcon — Dashiell Hammett
Hemingway: The Postwar Years And The Posthumous Novels – Rose Marie Burwell
To Have And Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway: a biography — Mary Dearborn
The True Gen - Denis Brian
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Running With Bulls — Valerie Hemingway
The Sea — John Banville
Mrs Hemingway — Naomi Wood
Saturday — Ian McEwan
Berlin Game — Len Deighton
Decline And Fall — Evelyn Waugh
The Colour — Rose Tremain
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Film reviews
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Once Upon A Time In The West
Mulholland Drive
The Gentlemen
A Time To Kill
The Irishman
The Revenant
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Monday, 29 April 2019
Well, crims in the family! I knew about the spy - well, the sort of spy - but crims eh! An everyday folk of country folk, one of whom apparently was not above skinning turds
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That, of course, is a huge exaggeration, but what would one of my posts be without a least one bucketful of bullshit. The question is rhetor...
Wednesday, 24 April 2019
A few more piccies for the entertainment of those who like eating but don’t spend an inordinate amount of time agonising over ‘what that meal just meant’
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If you like the pictures I published in my previous post , here are a few more. They are again chosen at random, and I repeat that there is ...
Tuesday, 23 April 2019
A few piccies to help you keep your pecker up. No mention of Brexit in this entry, by they way, and I am probably even more relieved than you are
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A friend, B (and, yes, B you are B) commented just the other day that he wished I would publish my blog entries ‘by topic’. Well, the more I...
Sunday, 7 April 2019
Two developments at home and the Brexit farce goes on (although it might conclude a week today)
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For a blog which has its roots in a diary I kept for about 15 years - handwritten at that - I’ve surprised myself by not mentioning two deve...
Friday, 8 March 2019
Don’t do this, kids, ever! It’s the road to ruin, will bring you nothing but grief, ruin your eyesight and quite possibly reverse Brexit (or something — subs please check). So don’t do what I am about to do. Ever!
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Well, I trust the headline caught your eye and drew you in, but this has nothing to do with Brexit, yet another bloody heart attack, anothe...
Thursday, 28 February 2019
When friendship dies but the corpse still twitches. Sounds familiar? I’m sure it does to some
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I wonder whether anyone reading this has come across the same dilemma: that a ‘friend’ who has been a ‘friend’ for many years is still a ‘fr...
Monday, 11 February 2019
We’ve all got a book in us (they say) and it’s a shame my father’s never quite saw the light of day
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My sister (who, she assures me, tunes into this ’ere blog every now and then) might remember this or she might not, but here goes: for prett...
Saturday, 26 January 2019
Beware of those who answer unasked questions (or attempt to intellectualise the moolah out of your pocket). Trust your judgment, it’s the only one you have
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A friend who, I gather, regular tunes in here to see read the latest waffle I am spouting was concerned that I hadn’t posted for a while and...
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