20th Century
’59 Trail, Part Five
Part 5 of my uncle, John Alldridge’s 1959 report from Canada’s Far North for the Birmingham Mail – Jerry F The Pas, Manitoba The trick about getting round this vast, wide-open country in a hurry, [more…]
Arts
Arts
The Birds (1963)
Not the most obvious choice to start with when delving into the Hitchcock canon, he did better films undoubtedly, but The Birds is just a great example of pure story telling. We are not weighed [more…]
20th Century
A Lookie at Buckie
Buckfast Buckfast is a small village located in Devon nestled amidst the beautiful Dartmoor National Park, offering splendid natural beauty and opportunities for hiking and wildlife spotting. Despite its small size, Buckfast remains a vibrant [more…]
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Fridays: Giorgio Moroder
Greetings pop pickers and welcome to this week’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday, our weekly tribute to the rainbow and glitter world of music produced by artistes who are quite simply fabulous darling. This week we’ll be [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 12th October 2023 The Panel: Victoria Atkins (Conservative) Yvette Cooper (Labour) Myleene Klass (Entertainer) Sonia Sodha (Former Labour Advisor) Jake Wallis Simons (The Jewish Chronicle) Piers Morgan (Talk TV) Venue: London If the [more…]
Arts
A View From the Farmhouse, Part Three
‘Had we but World enough and time, This coyness lady were no crime………………. But at my back I always hear time’s winged Charriot hurrying near: And yonder all before us lye Deserts of vast eternity……………………’ [more…]
20th Century
’59 Trail, Part Four
Part 4 of my uncle, John Alldridge’s 1959 report from Canada’s Far North for the Birmingham Mail – Jerry F Churchill, on Hudson’s Bay Life in Churchill — as in all frontier townships — gravitates [more…]
Arts
F for Fake (1973)
What is art if not a forgery of the real world. A reflection of what we see in our lives, and then try to convey to others, a form of primeval communication. This is the [more…]
Arts
Last Night Of The Proms 2023 – A Puffin’s eye view
This particular night has been a very long time coming; pretty much forty years to be precise. I remember first watching the Last Night as a yoof and taking in the spectacle on TV in [more…]