What the Dickens?
Dickensian was supposed to be the Christmas TV event for the chattering classes. After all, Charles Dickens practically invented …
Category Archives: 2015 Posts
Total immersion
A hiccup in lunching arrangements yesterday resulted in some unexpected bonus time, so after a planned visit to the British …
Play for today
There’s an old saying that “Water and fire are good servants but bad masters”. Well there’s not much fire in The …
Doing Shakespeare
One of the (many) benefits (and there are many) of not having to go to work every day is the …
Vote? Vote? Vote for …
Mrs Pankhurst? I think not. Suffragette is a well-structured drama with high production values and good, solid performances from a …
Warwickshire, falling
Pootling down the M40, sky blue, sun shining, trees becoming bizarrely less autumnal the further north you go and looking …
Homage to Ganesha
Ganesha is the elephant-headed god of the Hindu pantheon, a popular figure in Indian art and the subject of Homage …
Paying for it
“Private schools organisation chief tells critics: stop indulging in toffism” – not exactly “Freddie Starr ate my hamster”, but, hey, …
Adam Buck, Artist in the Age of Jane Austen (and others)
Dear Miss Austen would, I venture to suggest, have been amused, nay, scandalised by the decision of The Ashmolean Museum …
Twelve-ish drummers drumming
The link between a group of visiting Japanese drummers performing a centuries old ritual in the forecourt of Oxford’s Ashmolean …
