You probably noticed that there was a much-hyped football match on the telly on Friday evening; well, it was at Wembley Stadium if you had tickets per...

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Much Ado About Nothing-Nothing

The truth is that when it comes to any things foreign, I have not been anywhere for 18 months (even though I have had my two coronavirus jabs). With t...

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A beautiful time in Bermuda

We may gradually – and very thankfully – be leaving behind the world where what was once a formal or informal meeting had instead become t...

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Trading in trainers

I have just returned to London from a short ‘staycation’ in the North Norfolk coastal village of Blakeney. The name means ‘Black Island’ in me...

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A bleak kind of beauty

I have mentioned in a previous blog that Heddon Street, London W1, just off Regent Street, was the location for the photo-shoot that provided the cove...

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Heddonism & hedonism

This blog is about a film in which we swap Pennsylvania for California. Unashamedly, indeed gleefully, riffing off Groundhog Day, the Bill Murray/Andi...

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A weird wedding in the desert

Fiona Mozley was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2017 for her first novel, Elmet. This is her second, the cover of which is shown on the home ...

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