World’s Greatest PA has introduced me to my new favourite comedy website: www.regretsy.com , an edited highlights (or, more properly, the low points) of the “craft and trading” website, etsy.com. I am extremely pleased with her, not simply for introducing me to the world of the “mature plush teddy bear” (hand-made teddy bears, with startlingly plump [...]
Archive for October, 2009
The Best Comment Ever
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Vagina, World's Greatest P.A. on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fiona Shaw in “Mother Courage and Her Children”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Fiona Shaw in Mother Courage", "Hedda Gabler", "Mother Courage and Her Children", Antony Hopkins, Brecht, Daniel Day-Lewis, Deborah Warner, Fiona Shaw, Judi Dench, National Theatre, Simon Russell Beale on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last night was my first visit to Deborah Warner’s production of this great, great play. It won’t be my last. I’ve booked tickets for two further performances and I cannot wait to see it again, and again, and again. I pretend no impartiality when I discuss this great actor. I think her Hedda Gabler is [...]
Nose to Tail Cookery
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Best Friend, St. John's on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I saw Best Friend last week, thank God. She’s one of the few people I always feel better for having seen (and one of the rather greater number whom I always wish I saw more of), and what made it all the more fun was that we ate at St. John’s in the City: the [...]
“The Power of Yes”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "All's Well That Ends Well", "Mother Courage and Her Children", "The Power of Yes", Alan Bennett, David Hare, Financial Crisis, Fiona Shaw, Me As A Protestant, Measure for Measure", National Theatre, Parents, Shakespeare on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well: I feel rather stupid. I thought I was off to the National Theatre to see “Mother Courage and Her Children” starring Fiona Shaw (a production that, in spite of its delayed Press Night and decidedly mixed reviews, I am assured by Me As A Protestant has rekindled a love for Brecht in him – [...]
The Disco Break
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Childcare, Disco Break, Family, Jude Law, New York, Talented Photographer, Wife on October 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There are some things that I would do almost anything to avoid. Chief amongst these would be seeing “Cyrano de Bergerac” performed by amateurs under the age of 15, trying to learn how to fill in SAP time sheets, or doing my “I think you’ve really found the beginning of something brilliant here” face for [...]
