When I moved from Surrey to Somerset I was pounced upon almost immediately and asked if I would like to become a Beaver Scout leader. I was a little dubious – despite having spent three years as a Brownie Leader, Beavers were a completely different kettle of fish…
Archives for March 2014
The Execution of Noa P. Singleton
19 March 2014 by Leave a Comment
I love living in Britain, for all of its faults I genuinely believe that it is a good country. Things do go wrong, but generally we have a just society and part of the cornerstones of that justice is our lack of the death penalty. I’m sure others would disagree but I’m not sure how a society can regard itself as fair when it is happy to kill people…
Zenith Hotel
17 March 2014 by Leave a Comment
I don’t like Paris. I like the Musee D’Orsay, I like Disneyland and I’d like to visit Versailles. The rest of it can jump in the Seine for all I care. I’m possibly the only person I know not to buy into the idea of Paris as the glamorous city of love. I think I’m resistant to the hype about the place…
Little Beach Street Bakery
12 March 2014 by 4 Comments
If you like romantic novels with wonderful settings, likeable characters and evocative descriptions of food this is the perfect book for you. Jenny Colgan is an author at the very top of her game and an undoubted master of her genre…
Someone Else’s Skin
10 March 2014 by 2 Comments
It’s been a while since I read a crime novel. Despite it being my favourite genre I hadn’t picked one up so far this year. Other books seemed to make it to the top of the to-be-read pile thanks to review schedules, book group and my desperation to catch up with A Song of Ice and Fire…
Parallel Lines
5 March 2014 by Leave a Comment
It’s a sad but inevitable fact that the number of Holocaust survivors with us is dwindling each year. Just a week ago Alice Herz-Sommer, the subject of this year’s Oscar winning short documentary “The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life” passed away at the age of 110. It is now more important than ever that as many people as possible read the testimony of survivors…
Oscars 2014 Live-Blog
2 March 2014 by Leave a Comment
It’s Oscars night and once again I’m sitting up until the wee hours live blogging both the red carpet and the ceremony itself. I’m sure I’ll start the evening perky, snarky and as funny as I ever get. By 4.30 am – the approximate end time of the event – I’ll be semi-hysterical and blabbering more than ever. I do hope you stick around…