I had a dream that I am at work, and there is this bad electrical machine that my boss asks me to neutralise, while she turns off the electricity. I work quickly to detach all the wires and then my boss turns the electricity back on. the machine is no longer a danger but i [...]
wolverhampton deserted
After the cinema, waiting for the bus in freezing cold, deserted Wolverhampton City Centre – at least the church looks pretty.
Another Year
I am at the Lighthouse waiting to go and see Mike Leigh’s Another Year, its hard to believe (and somewhat ironic) that I haven’t been here in a year, – my last outing was to Haneke’s White Ribbon. Someone asked me if “the Mike Leigh film” is an action film. I think the most action [...]
History of the world in one hundred brilliant fragments
BBC Radio 4′s A History of the World in a 100 objects has come to a close – and through the many episodes I felt enlightened and uplifted, dewy-eyed on a number of occasions, and more consciously part of a wider, older world – what a magnificent piece of programming – it was worth my [...]
If I was French….(encore)
We did a straw poll at work today, and 4 out of 4 of us were ashamed that we are not French! They know how to give a proper response to attacks by the wealthy (23 millionaires in the cabinet) on the rest of us.
lace
For a while I knew how to make lace. Where did I learn that? Was it at school, from a French person, (une Dentellière, which naturally sounds like they use old teeth for pegs) or from one of the eccentric old ladies of Buckfastleigh who were always adopting me? I don’t know whether there are [...]
