Back when I was on Twitter actively, I remember being on a train to London for an examiners’ meeting (those days are thankfully over forever now). I remarked on Twitter how boring the Lincolnshire countryside is – flat, continuous farmland. A reply came from my online friend Richard McCann (whom I have met once in [...]
It turns out that there are moves afoot to change the dialogue in the Famous Five books in order to make them more accessible to contemporary children. Some independent research has suggested that they find words like luncheon and squared (in the sense of sorted out or reconciled) difficult to get past. The initiative has [...]
I’m thinking that wi-fi is the networking equivalent of squeezy Marmite. Great when it works well, irritating when it starts to clog up and you get it all over your hands, profoundly depressing when it fails and just blows air. I’m writing this on a laptop connected to my home network via wi-fi. The signal [...]
Time to catch up with commenting on the films I’ve seen over the last few months. Harry Brown is an easy watch. Contrary to popular wisdom, I’ve always struggled to see Michael Caine as an actor with any credible range at all – just a lucky guy who’s been cast in a few iconic roles [...]
More as an aide memoire for me than anything else, here are the films I have queued up in my mind for reviewing: Harry Brown, The Hurt Locker, Crazy Heart, Seven Pounds, Valkyrie, Terminator: Salvation, 9, Dead Poets Society, Nowhere Boy, Paper Heart, 500 Days Of Summer, Body Of Lies, Four Lions, Ferris Bueller’s Day [...]