It felt like an endless night before Christmas. Evenings was stuffed with keen anticipation and the desire just to know. What is it that’s wrapped up? What do I get to play with? If I said I took the few days before we found out if the stowaway was pink or blue calmly in […]
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A while ago we needed to talk about the curse of googling when growing a human. Now I think we might need to talk about the weeping. Seriously. I may be one small part English, but it seems I did not inherit a stiff upper lip. While I like to think of myself as generally […]
Oh to have thick skin. It’s got to be a good thing. For one, less bruises, papercuts and scrapes. Another, perhaps less chance of an infuriating tiny patch of pregnancy hormone induced eczema that is fetching me from sleep every morning without fail, sometime between 3.32 and 3.48 am (too much information? Possibly). But on […]
The movie: The dish: The reason: There is no shortage of crimson spray in Tarantino’s epic western tale of slavery and retribution. Civility is something that emerges in sly places; through the silver tongue of Dr King Schultz (Christopher Waltz), the kingfisher silk finery favoured by the newly freed Django (Jamie Foxx) and the table […]
The film: The dish: The reason: Tehran in November 1979 wasn’t a terrific place for six American diplomats to be hiding out in the Canadian embassy. Thank goodness for CIA operative Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) and ‘the best bad idea we have’. A phony science fiction film scouting mission and a cluster of fake Canadian […]