Roger Sansom·Apr 28, 2022Adam as an Add-onMy reading has been eccentric, sometimes bitty, always unpredictable in my reaction to it. This is in recent months, and that has been the…
Roger Sansom·Mar 13, 2022Getting Started!I have a bee in my bonnet recently about non-actors misquoting theatre situations (after a staggering misunderstanding of my own…
Roger Sansom·Mar 6, 2022Booked UpI gather that the top titles that people falsely claim to have read are “War & Peace”, “Hamlet”, “Ulysses” and “Les Miserables”. Sometimes…
Roger Sansom·Oct 1, 2021My Files, covering birth to “death”, & even madnessOur home filing system looks good, with smart filing cabinets and the drawers each marked. The drawback is the problem of finding things…
Roger Sansom·Sep 12, 2021Here’s looking (back) at meLast month I noticed that I had been keeping this blog for a year (my thanks again to Mei who showed me how to start). That may have been…
Roger Sansom·Aug 20, 2021The same only differentAnd here’s another story in the paper about twins! Last week’s feature about fifteen pairs starting primary school in Inverclyde had a…
Roger Sansom·Aug 13, 2021The way aheadThere are many times when the way ahead is clear. Those are often times when things around us are tangled, and we long for the clarity of…
Roger Sansom·Jul 25, 2021A drink first?There is a story — it has been around for hundreds of years — of an actor playing Shakespeare’s malevolent Richard III, with that long…
Roger Sansom·Jul 2, 2021James DaleThe Wimbledon season takes me back to other summers, and especially to the men’s final in 1982 between Connors and McEnroe, which I watched…
Roger Sansom·Jun 14, 2021“You’re making it up!”Cartoonists have often depicted a performance in progress with a kind of repetiteur’s hood in the centre of the front of the stage (what…
