So last weekend I went on a second date and he has not called me back. I have to admit I was not feeling much spark either but can't help but wonder - was it because I had three plates of food at the buffet? I thought men like women with an appetite? Maybe undoing…
Nunchucks and Chinese New Year celebrations at South Learning Centre eBook Club
The South Learning Centre eBook Club were totally inspired by staff member Yang Song. His knowledge, skill and expertise of Chinese New Year, Martial Arts and nunchucks had the children mesmerised. He explained the harmony between control, the body and skill to ensure that the nunchucks were used for meditation and self discipline rather than…
‘Art’ is in the eye of the beholder?
What’s your take on this style of art? Love it or loathe it? Fiona recommends some great reads on street art.
Quite Graphically Fantas(y)tic
If anyone had told me that I would become a huge fan of fantasy graphic novels with an anthropomorphic badger and more, I would have suggested they change their prescription. Don’t get me wrong – I like graphic novels, well, some anyway. I give a wide berth to superheroes and the like, but Grandville and…
Dear Mum, I received three letters this week
During World War One, many soldiers sent a weekly letter full of news to family, friends and loved ones back home. Many of those letters didn’t arrive, but those that did were kept. The letters lived on, long after the writers and recipients had passed away. Eventually the letters were stashed away in boxes in…
Morticians in love
Morticians also fall in love. This must have been happening since the beginning of time, but only now (to the best of my knowledge) has there been a such a rush of material on the love life of those who deal with the dead. The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals is a 2012…
A bit of what I didn’t know I fancied
Lately, without consciously planning to, I’ve been extending my literary horizons by reading a bit of gritty fiction that I’m glad is fiction, and then there’s been the non-fiction that I almost wish was fiction. Aptly titled, Dark Places is an unfortunately contemporary storyline of family massacre. Not my normal cup of chai, but I…
Recent necrology, February 2014
A list of well-known people who have died recently: Gabriel Axel, 1918-2014 Danish director whose drama Babette’s Feast prefigured the modern fetish for food on film Mavis Gallant, 1922-2014 Canadian born writer whose sharply witty short stories explored post-war rootlessness and exile Philip Seymour Hoffman, 1967-2014 Academy Award winner considered by many to be the…
Been there, done that
“Never go back,” they say, “it’ll be completely different.” Nobody told that to Ellis Hock (the main character in Paul Theroux‘s latest fiction offering The Lower River.) Actually, at the time he decided to return to Malawi, hardly anyone alive was still speaking to Ellis. So back he went, to the place where he had once…
I’ll have what she’s having…
An appreciation post for the work of Nora Ephron.
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