Category Archives: Art
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
What we like right now…Greece, Glyndebourne, Greenwich.
British Museum exhibition celebrates the friendship of Patrick Leigh Fermor, Niko Ghika and Joh Craxton Charmed Lives in Greece.
Der Rosenkavalier at Glyndebourne. Critics mixed but we were enthralled.
To National Maritime Museum in Greenwich to hear the sublime Emeli Sande. News of Columbia World Cup Penalties came through at same time.
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.
