Lockdown starts
Diary Notes Wednesday 18 March 2020 A female Tawny Mining Bee darting around the garden and male Tawny Mining Bee asleep in a Marsh Marigold flower. Monday 23 March No…
Lockdown Looms on the Horizon
A diary note from Monday 16 March 2020. Sunny enough to do a little gardening. Honey Bees. A couple of male Hairy-footed Flower bees fighting over the Pulmonaria. Then at…
I Love Words. That is all.
For the most romantic time, Cyrano dressed in modern rhyme. James McAvoy is dazzling. ★★★★★The Playhouse Theatre, until 3 Feb 2020.Posted in Theatre
You need to be strong to be so weak
Henry VI is not a play I’ve seen often, usually skipping from the previous Henry plays to Richard III without passing go.But the new production at the Sam Wanamaker Theatre…
Girl Power
Girl Power Posted on August 9, 2019August 9, 2019 by mcreighton A day out at Stratford-upon-Avon to see a couple of Restoration plays at the Swan RSC Theatre and, surprisingly (to me at…
Independence Day
There have been many voices, from all sides, calling for an independent complaints and disciplinary procedure for the Labour Party. Superficially this seems an attractive proposal, but it is not…