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What we like right now…pajamas, plants and popular fiction

by Jo Willett on August 29, 2014 in Books, Music, Theatre, What we like right now with No Comments

The Pajama Game . Michael Xavier (@michaelxavieruk) and Claire Machin our favourites in a strong cast.

Gone Girl – a bit slow to read the book but can’t wait to see Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck in the movie.

Our neighbour Marianne Majerus’ beautiful photos of plants and gardens.


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What we like right now…Glasgow, Salem and “Heathcliff it’s me”

by Jo Willett on August 22, 2014 in Drama, Music, Television, Theatre, Uncategorized, What we like right now with No Comments

Retro BFI, the talented Colin MacDonald‘s THE DUNROAMIN RISING and the formidable Moira Armstrong

Richard Armitage as John Proctor in The Old Vic’s THE CRUCIBLE. 

Looking forward to Kate Bush on BBC4 tonight and watching the final ep of The Honourable Woman on Skyplus.

Richard Armitage in The Crucible

Richard Armitage in The Crucible

 


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What we like right now…Chicken, Ciro, and checking pictures online

by Jo Willett on August 15, 2014 in Drama, Television, What we like right now with No Comments

We love the stylishness of le Coq Restaurant, St Paul’s Road – chicken and nothing but – delicious.

We’re hooked on Sky Atlantic’s Gomorrah  “ugly in a good way”.

Daisy’s sending us pictures of her trip to Uganda on Instagram and we’re marvelling at the magic of a whole new way of staying in touch.


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What we like right now…music, Machiavels and mirrors

by Stuart Rock on August 08, 2014 in Drama, Music, Television, What we like right now with No Comments

The Proms. We have been to four stunning concerts: the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for an evening of Strauss and Elgar, including Inger Dam-Jensen, the Danish soprano, singing the Four Last Songs. Then a riotous, joyfully choreographed Kiss Me Kate with the John Wilson Orchestra. (Review here.) And a double-header musical meditation on death and loss with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performing Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis and Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, followed by the Tallis Scholars singing Sir John Tavener’s Ikon of Light and Requiem Fragments. The evening finished with Samuel West reading Wilfred Owen’s Anthem for Doomed Youth, with the lights going out in the Royal Albert Hall.

We’re watching Kevin Spacey’s Netflix production of House of Cards (come on, catch up, we hear you say). And it’s slick and impressive but it doesn’t have the same wit and irony as the original.

And this is brilliant. The antiques website sellingantiques.co.uk has led us to Andrew Gradwell at Barton House Antiques in Frome and to Minerva Antiques in Greenwich.

 

 

 

 


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