Category Archives: Indescribable
Christmas is all around me, and so the feeling grows…
…and so the immortal words of Billy Mack from Love Actually ring out as another year draws to a close. This blog has just had its most successful year, with nearly 100,000 visits. So let me wish all of you, … Continue reading
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Steady on chaps, ladies present
Fun and games at the latest production from English Touring Opera, Handel’s Xerxes. This has been reimagined as a Second World War drama, apparently inspired by The Dam Busters. Some confusion about the aircraft they flew, however, with a Spitfire … Continue reading
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Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep
Pic: Salvatore Vuono Meet Gibson*, the latest secret weapon in Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne’s fight to bring the British economy out of recession. According to the Daily Telegraph, he has acquired a new pet named after the Dambusters … Continue reading
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Do keep up, dear
Once upon a time the Hollywood magazine Variety was regarded as the voice of show business, regularly breaking dozens of stories in a famously sensationalist style which used a language all its own: Now, it seems, it employs ‘reporters’ who … Continue reading
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Radio surprise
Pic: Vintage Radio Australia Well, this is extraordinary! A radio adaptation of Paul Brickhill’s The Dam Busters in 26 half hour episodes, produced by ‘Australasian Radio’ in 1954, and introduced by Brickhill himself. I have to say that I never … Continue reading
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Downhill all the way
Sad decline in standards at the Daily Express. Here is a paper which once seemed never to have left the Second World War period, but which now employs writers (or sub-editors) who don’t have its essential facts and figures at … Continue reading
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Happy New Year!
As usual, I saw in the New Year in the company of Jools Holland and his merry band of Hootenayers. I have to say that I was a bit disappointed that there weren’t quite the usual range of old R’n’B … Continue reading
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Er, yes, I think it is…
One of the humdrum tasks in writing a blog is checking and deleting the spam which WordPress’s Akismet software has flagged up as ‘possible’. This is normally a tedious task. No thank you, I don’t want any of your organ … Continue reading
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If you’ve got a few bob to spare…
… you could do worse than investing in these goodies. Being sold next week at Canterbury Auctions is this first edition of Paul Brickhill’s magnum opus, signed by its late owner Flg Off Brian Goodale, wireless operator in David Shannon’s … Continue reading
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Time to let go, chaps, time to let go
Pic: Daily Mail I’ve nothing against people wearing fancy dress to big sporting occasions. If they want to spend hours watching a football match sweltering inside a suit of armour or an animal costume, well, that’s their choice. But I … Continue reading
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