Books – Top 5 Favourites
So, I’ve done a Film top 5, a tv one, music ones.. but so far no books. Now you might be surprised if you know my lifelong love of reading, but it’s hard to pick 5 out of a lifetime..but I’m going to give it a try. PS. I have to admit my reading rate […]
Movies – Top 5 Favourites
I’m surprised that I haven’t posted my top 5 film list before.. ?as it’s been one of the easier top 5s to come up with as the top 4 have been fixed for decades really. ?Well the top 4 is easy, the 5th is harder.. ?and changes. ?Currently #5 is the one below, but who […]
Culture – My perfect London (cultural) week…
So March 2019 I was in London for a whole week, and I managed to get tickets to a different art event – play, music, poetry etc. – every night for the whole time. It was fantastic, and got me thinking – if I had 7 days where I could attend any play, gig, concert, […]
TV – Top 5 Favourites
….aka my “Desert Island TV” watching – where if I could only watch 5 shows for the rest of eternity, these would be the five I would pick. I could, and to be honest, have watched the below many many times, and so would find it very easy for eternity, ?However maybe one day some […]
Plays – Top 5 Favourites
Just seen the 2017 version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (New Statesman’s review here) and it’s put me in mind of other plays, and (being me) thinking of what would be in my Top 5. Unlike other media, it was actually fairly simple to come up with the list. ?Again, as with other lists, […]
Poetry – “Tonight at Noon” – by Adrian Henri
This is one of my favourite poems. ?I love the backwardness of it, the amazing world it suggests, and how it makes you think about the absurdity of situations/events. “You will tell me you love me Tonight at noon” – I love the doomed romance of this – tonight can not happen?at noon,?therefore it’s impossible […]