This is a piece of dialogue from THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES, the best Western ever made. Josey rides into the Comanche encampment alone to parley for the lives of two captives. The dialogue (written in 1975) says much about the need to find rapprochement with indigenous people everywhere. JOSEY: You be Ten Bears? TEN BEARS: …
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English-isms
So what does it mean to be English and a part of this strange culture? I can only speak for myself. I’ve never been to a football match, never attended an English court of law, never visited Liverpool or Birmingham or Manchester, never watched an episode of ‘Coronation Street.’ But I have broken into Stonehenge …
The best dinner party ever…
These are the five guests I would choose for my dinner party. They are all personable, intelligent, respected and, I imagine, great company. They have all explored or defined the best elements of our country and share a certain quintessential ‘Englishness’. I think they would get along together marvellously.
Clever wordy yanks!
The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. And the winners are: 1. Coffee , n. The person upon whom one coughs.2. Flabbergasted , adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained. 3. Abdicate , v. To …
Who REALLY wrote the works of Shakespeare?
So, who really wrote all those magnificent plays that for 400 years have stood the test of time? Well, this may come as a shock to conspiracy theorists but…..wait for it….they were written by…..William Shakespeare of course. There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever of any contemporary playwright or poet having written this material themselves. To …
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‘Never Look Away’
At just over three hours long, I wondered if the German movie ‘Never Look Away’ was going to test my patience. Actually, the time flew by. The film is loosely based on the life of the artist Gerhard Richter as he lives through the depredations of the Nazi era, the bombing of Dresden and the …
The Heart of Soul
There have been many excellent soul singers in the last few decades….Al Green, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye. But for my money and definitely my era, the greatest and most charismatic of them all is the late great Teddy Pendergrass. A documentary film of his life, ‘If You Don’t Know Me By Now’ has been produced …
Be afraid. Be VERY afraid…
“Out of the Jag, a gentle smirk. Mission accomplished. Broken Britain, gone to meet its breaker. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is the joke and we are the punchline” Tom Peck The ‘i’. It is the singular misfortune of what used to be known as The Transatlantic Alliance that we are now ‘governed’ east and west …
Against the grain…..
Greetings. This is my first blog on WordPress. I’ve been advised at length to write about one theme but given my occasional inability to take good advice, I’m going against the grain and will make the posts about any and everything I deem fit to post. This could either prove to be pleasantly unpredictable or …
My First Blog Post
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.
Remember to Live 