It’s fair to say that my sartorial disposition is toward the “classic” (by which I mean that I can make Alan Bennett look avant garde and edgy; or Jonathan Miller dangerously subversive) – with the exception of one magic garment: The Coat of Spontaneous Youth. This is a coat that I tried on (against my [...]
Archive for April, 2009
The Ur Playground
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Agency, facebook, Twitter, Wife, Woody Allen in Robert de Niro's Body Creative Director on April 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Wife has come to the opinion that the defining location in humans’ lives is the school playground: there is simply too much “adult” behaviour that confirms her in this belief for her to consider otherwise (she has recently been subjected to the oddest bout of “I want you to be my friend, not hers” and [...]
Paddling with G.K.Chesterton
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Evelyn Waugh, F.Scott Fitzgerald, G.K.Chesterton on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Is it weird to come to an author through minute quotations from his work, I wonder? I have just committed myself (financially, not actually to starting them…yet) to The Complete Works of G.K.Chesterton, a manly thirty seven volumes, in spite of the fact that I have read about thirty words of his up to now. The [...]
LA Fitness can Shit the Shit Off.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged LA Fitness on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
LA Fitness are a bunch of crooks. I joined the branch near work a couple of years ago – and even went once or twice. However, it was clear that it wasn’t working, because after about a fortnight I didn’t have the cut look popularised by the movie “300″, and so I stopped going. Anyway: [...]
Madame de Sade
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Father, Madame de Sade on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My parents went to see Mishima’s “Madame de Sade” last night, and I (who am going to see it in a few weeks’ time with Me as a Protestant and his wife) was keen to see what they thought. Well, I don’t think Kenneth Tynan needs to worry that his reputation as the king of [...]
I Wonder About Glasses
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged House, School, Wife on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As I walked home yesterday, I saw an Estate Agent’s board displayed in the front garden of one of the houses ahead of me, very near to our own. As I drew nearer, my heart started thumping: the board was in OUR front garden – and the sign on it said “Auction of Premises”. Dear [...]
Terrible Theatre
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Antony Hopkins, Eileen Atkins, Fiona Shaw, Hilarious Researcher, Ian Holm, Judi Dench, Paul Schofield, Simon Russell Beale, Theatre, Vanessa Redgrave, Wife on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had lunch with Hilarious Researcher recently, and she (who is married to an actor, and who likes theatre) and I (who am married to a woman who does not like theatre at all) were discussing what it is to travel across London to see something truly execrable. There is nothing worse than Terrible Theatre: nothing [...]
The Garden
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bamboo, Garden, Garden Joy, Wife on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have, according to Wife, many virtues: but it seems that planting is not one of them. I had decided that I had re-created the great Gertrude Jekyll’s principle of planting huge drifts of plants all in the same colour, great beds filled with tulips, others over-flowing with hellebores, others with lavendar and rosemary. It [...]
Television
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Being Human, Five Minutes of Heaven, Television, The Inbetweeners, The Red Riding, Wife on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have seen some extraordinarily good television recently: “Being Human”, “The Red Riding”, “The Inbetweeners” – all three of them (in their very different ways) excellent examples of television as an art form: and those of them that can (ie: the one example that didn’t begin life as a set of novels) has been re-commissioned [...]
