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What we like right now…Small Island, Secrecy, Sissinghurst

by Jo Willett on May 31, 2019 in Art, Books, Drama, History, Television with Comments Off on What we like right now…Small Island, Secrecy, Sissinghurst

Small Island – superb dramatisation at The National Theatre of Andrea Levy’s novel
Secrecy – compulsive, searing Chernobyl on Sky. Superbly done.
Sissinghurst – plants and history in the Weald of Kent


Tags: gardens, History, theatre, TV Drama

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What we like right now…Larmer Tree, Laura Linney, local legacy

by Jo Willett on June 18, 2018 in Books, Business, Drama, History, Theatre, Travel with Comments Off on What we like right now…Larmer Tree, Laura Linney, local legacy

Larmer Tree gardens, Wiltshire, at their most beautiful in June.  Definitely worth a visit.

Laura Linney luminous in My Name is Lucy Barton at The Bridge in Rona Munro’s superb adaptation of Elizabeth Strout’s novel.

Local history tour revealed the extent of Richard Cloudesley’s legacy some 500 years after his death.  Shows what can be done – both good and bad – with “two stony fields”.  Cloudesley Annual Review

 

 


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What we like right now…Scandals, South Africa and Scott Miller

by Jo Willett on May 27, 2018 in Art, Books, Drama, Exhibitions, History, Television, Travel with Comments Off on What we like right now…Scandals, South Africa and Scott Miller

Loving:  Russell T Davies’ adaptation of John Preston’s A Very English Scandal.  Bunnies can and must go to the BAFTAs. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/may/27/sundays-best-tv-a-very-english-scandal-jonathan-meades-on-jargon

 

 

 

 

 

Melissa Scott Miller’s award-winning pictures of North London. http://www.scottmillerart.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The South African garden at RHS Chelsea.  Robbed of a gold but silver guilt nonetheless.

 

 


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What we like right now: The Missing, Magical Mystery Tours and The Middling Sort

by Jo Willett on October 23, 2016 in Drama, Exhibitions, Film, Food, History, Music, Television with No Comments

Spine-tingling storytelling in this second series of The Missing.  the-missing

 

 

 

Hugely enjoyable The Beatles Eight Days a Week – the touring years.the-beatles

 

 

 

 

 

Coffee at our nearby museum The Geffrye  with its dedication to “the middling sort” and a wander round its chronologically-arranged gardens.

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