Witterings about lots of things.
Long before pumpkin spice was even a twinkle in a marketing executive’s eye, there was You've Got Mail. I'm so old vintage that I saw this movie at the cinema when it was released in 1998. I remember thinking it was alright… cute, fun. This casual attitude is best understood as a relic of the time - we just didn't realise what a golden age of film... Continue Reading →
It began with the rambunctious, big-hearted Disney adaptation of Jilly Cooper's Rivals. What an opening, as the archetypal rake, Rupert Campbell-Black, and his companion, join the mile high club on Concorde while fellow passengers smoke, read Vogue magazine and pop champagne. Tres amusant! As soon as it was over I ordered the books. Wintertime... Continue Reading →
“Secrets, silent, stony, sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.” James Joyce, Ulysses Maybe it's a symptom of living in almost certain safety, to find the idea of banned books romantic. Imagine: the soft crackling of a paper bag containing a hard-back first... Continue Reading →
Amy Jardine 