ADDIS ADDENDUM – BOUZE EXTRA
The third and final post about last Friday’s disasterous Ethiopian excursion brings us on to the drinks. I noted below that from an extensive list of beers, including Casablanca and “mystery Ethiopian&#8[…]

Oh, we’re back to the squad numbers thing again. Well yes, but with a mathematicians hat on. Last night due to some sleeplessness I wander down to catch the second half of DC United vs Dallas Burn. Dallas were one-nil up (though the American co[…]

Sport Relief is upon us like a nettle knicker rash. Sitting in the middle of a summer of sport like a rancid boil on an otherwise attractive partners arse, are sporting people making tits of themselves and non-sportsmen trying to make sportsmen of th[…]

NETTLE KNICKERS! A wonderful BBC science piece where the headline is needlessly gratuitous and fades away to a nice but less shocking piece on textile science. Of course nettle knickers could act as an appropriately natural defence against many preda[…]

The last ten minutes of The Return are very uneasy for the viewer. Up to this point the film has had one intention, ratchet up the suspense and tell the very simple story. Two brothers return home to find in place the father they never knew. He then […]

It has romance (for my Mum). It has violence (for my Dad). And it does not have much swearing in it.
At least that is what I thought when I left. I enjoyed it too for what it is worth. But then i remembered that Alec Baldwin only really has one line,[…]

FT Top 100 Films
70: THE FIFTH ELEMENT
Anthony Easton Says:
Its a beautiful film, one of those sound and furies that signify nothing, i am not even sure it has a plot or even that the plot matters–its a series of sci fi set pieces, some of them[…]

I am currently reading Gould’s Book Of Fish, by Richard Flanagan, which won the Commonwealth Prize for literature in 2002 (though Amazon suggest there was a version of it knocking about since 1998). A beguiling work, it puports to be a reweitte[…]

ADDIS ADDENDUM
Much is said about how waiting stuff are put upon. Much is said about the terrible pay, conditions and hours with which they suffer. Yet I note below nothing has been said about the lack of basic ability of our initial waitress we had […]

Enuff already with the Daleks. How about talking about a more contemporary kids show. One which is altogether more bonkers that even Doctor Who was in its turning Tom Baker into a cactus days. Saturday morning kids TV has become a playground of halfh[…]