Blog posts by year and monthFebruary 2018
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And I’ve got all the right money and all that
An early morning of culture. As the snow was falling and the road/rail networks were giving up the ghost, I was deep into the new BBC series Civilisations. Not for me the usual breakfast fun with Chris/news/travel/ weather etc but culture, art and a sun-lit Simon Schama. This is a major new seri...
If I can borrow a coat to wear...
It’ll be over by the weekend. That’s what my BBC weather app seems to suggest anyway so its just a question of hunkering down with your radiators and friends/colleagues. Three jumpers got me through yesterday, might make it four today. Walking shoes, padded socks, heated undergarments-all useful...
Well giddy up and giddy up and get away
Scarves, gloves, thermals. Shovel, flask, travel rug. Hunkering down and carrying on... A weekend of reading, entertaining and watching The Death of Stalin for the third time. It really is a fantastic film, managing to be laugh out loud funny without avoiding what was a dark, chaotic ...
Workin’ on my brain
Blimey. I know they said it was coming but really this is a bit too cold.
Twisting round to make me think
A post-show shuffle to the Brits. A decent event I thought, with a funny host whose jokes worked. And that’s a tough gig. So many times in the past the jokes fall flat/were never funny in the first place but with Jack Whitehall it all worked. He had me at his Ed Sheeran ‘as long as he doesn’t si...
You know it don’t seem right
It’s not even 6am but there’s a job to be done. And that job involves TRYING TO MAKE MY PHONE WORK. It might just be that I spent ALL OF LAST NIGHT trying to make fix it but that I FAILED. When I speak to the nice repair person I will be calm of course and NOT AT ALL MAD. I shall explain that it...
Shaping up for the big time baby
Enjoying all this mildness. Apparently it isn’t going to last but for now, there’s a spring-like spring in my step. The winter wardrobe wont be going away just yet.
If you’ve got a problem...
Well here we are again. How was that all-to-short weekend?
I’m here just like I said
A swift departure from the studio yesterday to catch the Julius Caeser that David Morrissey told us about a few weeks back. It’s an amazing production. Under 2 hours, full of explosions, yelling, murder (obviously) and a standing crowd that becomes part of the crowd scenes.
We grew up together that way
Well I hope your Valentines Day was a rip-roaring success. Observing it from the vantage point of extreme middle-age, it does seems a terrible pressure we put everyone through to say the right thing, buy the right thing, do the right thing.
