Just re-watched this wonderful Charles Chaplin film. If you get the opportunity, try to watch it. Spoiler alert: He was intelligent, brilliant filmmaker and producer/director, and he was on the side...
I moisten the raw ingredients of my compost bin with 'organic recycled beer and wine'. I also daily swallow tablets to thin my blood, reduce my BP and fight cholesterol. Could I be producing compost...
The studio buildings on south side of Talgarth Road were round the corner from us, and we saw Rudolph one day heading for his day's rehearsal. Mind you, we had Townsend, Jagger, me, and loads of...
I've just been watching a documentary about Vermeer's painting. I spent about three months painting a copy (an exercise in learning how to shove paint around) and I found the programme very...
Anyone here read any of the Mullah Nasruddin stories? I only know them through an Idries Shah book I came across many years ago. It is fascinating to read humour written by foreigners, who are...
Has anyone here read any P'tit Nicolas stories? By Sempe/Goscinny. Very human and funny, and excellent for English folks learning to enjoy French language.
Johnson today blamed his excellent civil servants and advisers and the current PM and Ms Gray and Dominic Cummings and everybody he's ever met, for everything bad that's ever happened to him. Do you...
I began to lose hair in my late twenties. I'm male so not too shocking and awful for me. Now I'm an old git I've developed a bald right eyebrow, and a bald patch on the left side of my chin, which...
The following message popped up when I went to Private Eye's website:- "DuckDuckGo blocked this content to prevent Facebook from tracking you We blocked Facebook from tracking you when the page...