Adam 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…Apr 28, 2022Apr 28, 2022
Getting Started!I have a bee in my bonnet recently about non-actors misquoting theatre situations (after a staggering misunderstanding of my own…Mar 13, 2022Mar 13, 2022
Booked UpI gather that the top titles that people falsely claim to have read are “War & Peace”, “Hamlet”, “Ulysses” and “Les Miserables”. Sometimes…Mar 6, 2022Mar 6, 2022
My 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…Oct 1, 2021Oct 1, 2021
Here’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…Sep 12, 2021Sep 12, 2021
The 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…Aug 20, 2021Aug 20, 2021
The 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…Aug 13, 2021Aug 13, 2021
A 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…Jul 25, 2021Jul 25, 2021
James 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…Jul 2, 2021Jul 2, 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…Jun 14, 2021Jun 14, 2021