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Un-wokeness
Today's entertainment is often laboriously woke, which must be confusing for young people watching things made before 2015. Here’s how to explain baffling old films and TV.The Great Escape, 1963A...
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Muerto bailando
It's el Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) today - mainly in Central and South America, especially Mexico...... and to that end, how about a little bit of this?Compañía Internacional de Danza...
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So get up
Another grey and miserable week drags slowly to its close (thank you, Storm Ciarán, for covering the garden from top to toe in a thick layer of slimy wet leaves - that's my weekend sorted...) - and...
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Come on babe, why don't we paint the town?
Gosh. The effervescent child prodigy, Opportunity Knocks-winner and teen sensation of British telly in the 1970s and 80s - whose life was tragically cut short, like Karen Carpenter's, by anorexia -...
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As long as anyone with hot blood can
We've made a sort-of-effort to scrape up some of the sludgy leaf-detritis that's coating the garden, thanks to the hideous weed trees in other people's gardens. Of course, it's blowing a hooley again,...
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Ole! or Hoi!..?
Grrrr. Back to work. Already?!!!!These ever-shortening days simply eat into our available time to do anything. [Of course, the fact I actually only woke up on Saturday at 2.30pm didn't help, but...]. A...
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Just don't stutter, OK?
Its His Majesty the King's first - and the UK's first with a King on the throne since 1950 - State Opening of Parliament today, aka "The King's Speech".A spurious enough reason to feature this...
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They just HAD to see it...
[click to embiggen]...and who could blame them..?!Ginger Rogers, Busby Berkeley - We're in the MoneyBusby Berkeley - Shadow WaltzSimply breath-taking. And ninety years ago![Shame we're not actually...
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Pensive, flummox, vagrant and labourer
Sex education?© Scarfolk Council[Click to embiggen]
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The return of the dancing zoo
Another drab and dreary week slumps wearily to its close - and the weekend beckons! [And a busy one, with not one but two trips to the theatre; but more on that later, no doubt]Let's brighten up...
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Showgirls, aliens and the Queen Mum doing the Calypso?
I don't know what this is from, but I want to see it!After a bit of a hectic morning getting the place in order for our guests Baby Steve and Alex, I'm taking a breather before they arrive.We're all...
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Senses working overtime, indeed
You know you're getting old when......you discover that the mightily-talented Mr Andy Partridge of XTC is 70 years old!Let's remind ourselves of the genius of him and his band, shall we?XTC - Making...
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Some day I'm gonna make her mine
Heavens. What a weekend! Two trips to the theatre in succession, and with hardly time to blink it's Monday again (and all that entails...).The first of the theatrical extravaganzas "our gang" gathered...
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Oh, Mandy - well, you came and you gave without taking
Our second outing of the weekend (this time, just Madam Arcati and I) was one we simply could not miss, even if the timing made for a rather hectic two days - a truly legendary "master of his craft"...
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We are always here for you
Human Resources want to fully exploit their humans as a resource and for them to be happy about it. These are the contradictory messages you will get this week:Return to the office full-time and give...
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Yeah, slow
Timeslip moment again...We've plugged into The Matrix, and suddenly we've shot back two decades to 2003! The year of the Iraq War and the arrest of Saddam Hussein, Beyoncé, the repeal of Section 28,...
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Sashay, shante
Sharing the day with an odd assortment of "names", such as Rock Hudson, Danny DeVito, Fenella Fielding, Peter Cook, Martin Scorsese, Field Marshall Montgomery, Jack Vettriano, Auberon Waugh, Sarah...
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Of Marvels, hidden and not-so-hidden London, and Kungs
"The social whorl never ceases", I said in response to a comment from Ms Scarlet the other day. Indeed it doesn't...I was early arriving in the West End [deliberately so, as I neglected last Sunday to...
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Giving thanks for Fred and Ginger
Having a very quiet, laid-back day today, as a Sunday should be. [I was going to tackle the leaf-strewn garden, but it's been drizzling and miserable, and threatening rain all day...]With that in mind...
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If you go for tact and manners, better stay away from me
[Thanks, Dinah!]Sigh. Monday again, and it's getting colder. And darker...Let's brighten up proceedings, shall we, in the company of our Patron Saint of Ditziness, tomorrow's birthday girl, the...
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