Chance, me too. Excellent list.
Wrote about Vegemite’s 100th birthday for the Spectator! www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-...
The Blue Flower is for me one of the greatest novels of the century. There are only nine novels - it’s terrible when you get to the end of them.
I have been looking at this thread and Michele, you are the first contributor I might have a drink with. ANYWAY Bleak House Lessico Famigliare (Ginzburg) and Moominland Midwinter or The Magic Mountain, one of the two.
Come and have lunch soon and we’ll reassure each other that we’re not mental xxxx
Today’s protest in London seemed to me to revive the ancient blood libel against Jews. Here are dead babies, killed by Jews. I don’t know that this will ever end. And how could those protestors do that, knowing what Hamas did to Israeli babies two weeks ago? How could they?
Oh, I adored that film when I was a child, and it turned out to be just as good as I remembered.
The Rhine Falls at Schaffhausen are only 30 minutes away. The opera’s great, one of the best orchestras in Europe.
Is there a more perfect play than Uncle Vanya? Andrew Scott’s one-man version as funny and ruinously devastating emotionally as it’s ever been.
