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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, 9 October 2023
A schlepp and a half to a wedding in Hamburg, one which some might take in their stride. Me, I’d rather not too often, thank you very much. Too many early mornings
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It was off to Germany last Wednesday, for my youngest nephew’s wedding, and here are a few of the piccies I took. The journey was a tad tort...
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
Me, the complete bastard (and that is not intended as some kind of ironic joke)
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Today, on August 29, 1976, thus 47 years ago, I did one of the most selfish things I’ve ever done and about which to this day I feel ashamed...
Thursday, 17 August 2023
OFFICIAL Private Eye is slowing dying of respectability: a nation mourns. A warning to all – never, but never, become ‘respectable’
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WARNING! THIS ENTRY MIGHT DISTRESS READERS WHO PRIDE THEMSELVES ON ‘BEING ENLIGHTENED’, ‘HAVING A SENSE OF HUMOUR’ AND FOR WHOM ‘BEING PART ...
Monday, 19 June 2023
Well, hello Singapore, so unexpected!
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Hello Singapore! Someone there – or perhaps 3,590 odd people there – like me. At at least that’s what the stats tell me. It could of course ...
Saturday, 10 June 2023
Bugger Trump, he is now in many ways the sideshow. It is the dangers to US democracy which must now be considered (though Trump set the ball rolling)
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In the past I have often joked about my age, ‘humorously’ exaggerating it. I suspect that was more a kind of double-bluff, in some ways feel...
Saturday, 27 May 2023
Two songs, and apology and and another explanation . . . (You surely can't get enough of those)
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First of all there these, two short videos accompanying tunes I’ve produced (‘composed’ sounds just a tad too hi-falutin’). Here’s the first...
Tuesday, 3 January 2023
An explanation . . . and let’s hear it for the Sun wot woz
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For two days I had adapted my main blog title pic to wish everyone a Happy New Year for 2023. Well, I wish I hadn’t, although it’s not as gr...
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Sunday, 1 January 2023
Welcome to the Age of Dunces (and hold on to your hats!) Note to both Putin and Xi: remember this from Talleyrand – C’est pire qu’un crime, c’est une faute
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A few years ago, I posted my ‘New Year’s Message’. Well, if it’s good enough for the sodding Pope, the then Queen (she croaked last year), o...
Monday, 21 November 2022
Dreams (and dreaming, one of my favourite pastimes)
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Several years ago, in December 2017 I think, my brother and I joined my sister and German brother-in-law and about 90 other Germans – well, ...
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Thursday, 6 October 2022
As I was saying (or not at the case might be*)
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First things first: that asterisk above (*). You might think the phrase is ‘as the case may be’ but from what I know of English - and I don’...
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