What with the snow – or the ice – becoming annoying and the darkness of January grinding its way towards its lowest point on Blue Monday, it’s time for a little warmth and colour. That is, it’s really time for pantomime. So, last week the lovely Autumn booked us tickets to Aladdin at the Hackney [...]
Coming home from your holidays can make you feel blue. Out of the deckchair and into the office is a dismal contrast. It’s helpful to have a treat waiting for you a few days after you get back. A little something to look forward to.
The week before last Autumn and I did the first week [...]
Football, is it really beautiful or is it only a game? I never liked it. Standing in a water-logged field with sheets of iced rain cutting into my eight-year-old legs didn’t sell the experience. With no team, the Saturday afternoon results on the telly made as much sense to me as the shipping forecast. The [...]
Last night the lovely Autumn and I ended up at Alan Ayckbourne’s play A Woman in Mind at the Vaudeville Theatre on The Strand. We pitched up there as I’d been given tickets by a colleague who’d won them in a competition and then found himself double-booked. Another colleague remarked that ‘you can always tell [...]
