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Sauvignon Blonde »
Luck be a Lady Tonight
Posted on 8:40am Friday 1st May 2009
Have you ever had one of those days where everything goes right? You arrive at the station running your normal five minutes late and find the fast train is also. You put on a pair of jeans you haven’t worn sense the end of last summer and find £10 in the pocket. You even get a smile and glance from that “way too young for you”, cute, certain someone that has never looked your way before. I had one of those last Saturday.
The Page Turner »
Motion goes back to his roots at Radley
Posted on 4:13pm Wednesday 29th April 2009
After Poet Laureate Andrew Motion haunted my dreams the other night, I discovered that he is coming to Oxfordshire.
Am Dram Man »
Staying in for Not Going out....
Posted on 10:42am Tuesday 28th April 2009
No one likes comedy more than me. Give me a good situation comedy and I’m there.
Country Girl »
If your peaceful Sunday was disturbed by an irate cow in your garage, let me apologise now.
Posted on 10:14pm Monday 27th April 2009
If your peaceful Sunday was disturbed by an irate cow in your garage, let me apologise now. It was the result of some cattle herding which went adrift last weekend.
The Page Turner »
Goodbye to Ballard
Posted on 11:23am Monday 27th April 2009
I don't remember my dreams much these days but the other morning I woke up and recalled that I had been having a chat (in my dream) with the poet laureate Andrew Motion.
One Man and his Dog End »
What to do
Posted on 11:15am Saturday 25th April 2009
On That night in 1997, round at friends, when I could take no more they said don't worry, it might not be that bad, and for a while, I suppose, it wasn't.
The Page Turner »
Bear necessities
Posted on 3:51pm Wednesday 22nd April 2009
I enjoyed a pleasant chat the other day with Ted Dewan, who writes children's books and lives in North Oxford.
Am Dram Man »
Walking back to happiness......
Posted on 9:33am Tuesday 21st April 2009
‘The Memory of water’ is coming together well. To quote from our playmeister and leader young Kate ‘Tuesday's rehearsal was a run of Act One. This was quite a slow affair, but all the acting was on top form. Characters are now totally believable and the feelings and intentions on show are all moving in the right direction. Just a bit of tightening of the pace and it's a corker. We worked on the last section of Act One, which is the very difficult trying-on-of-dead-mother's-clothes bit. Lots of parallel conservations and much wardrobe business make this one of the trickiest parts of the play. But after several runs, the cast were on top of it. Act Two follows next week...’ So there you have it, from the horse’s mouth as it were.
The Page Turner »
Back in the bunker
Posted on 4:45pm Tuesday 14th April 2009
When I complained to one of my colleagues I was suffering a touch of Bank Holiday jetlag, he called me a tired old hack.
Country Girl »
Picnics aren't what they used to be. They're better.
Posted on 4:31pm Tuesday 14th April 2009
In true Easter Monday style, I meandered on down to Lockinge Point to Point this week and I discovered that picnics aren’t what they used to be. They’re better.
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