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But Nota Bene Dear Reader: this blog is NOT limited to my recipe and restaurant ramblings alone! I shall also take it upon myself to decribe my various other encounters and experiences in this wonderful world we all share. Expect recommendations of excellent service received, for example, and lively discussions on a variety of exhilerating sublects like as Fashion, Art, Education, Religion and Fitness my word. Not forgetting my regular Favourite Albums of the Month / Year feature. Are you ready? Then enter Freunde, Étranger, Stranger…
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Mount Fuji – Japanese Wonder Restaurant – Birmingham
Charlotte and I discovered a few weeks ago that there are very few reasonably priced restaurants in Birmingham city centre which are not either deafeningly loud, or bard which happen to sell food. We set out the other day, after church, to go to lunch. We were headed...
La Belle Dame Sans Merci – Dicksee & Keats
Frank Bernard Dicksee (1853–1928) created this beautiful work after reading Keats' 1819 poem, or ballad, of the same name. This is quoted below. The poem itself is a sort of fairy tale gone awry. The knight at arms finds a women who is ostensibly in love with him,...
Nanook of the North – Inspiring Documentary Film 1922
Goodness me, where to begin? It is not often that I notice a masterpiece while I am watching it, but Nanook was just that. This was a documentary film made in the early 1920s, after two failed attempts in the 1910s. It follows Nanook, a master hunter in the Ungava...
Three Favourites – June 2022 Edition
Hello and good greeting, as Ed Balls would say. Welcome to this month's edition of 'I am working too hard so have a few album covers rather than five' Favourites. See below this month's picks of top shelf covers. Takin' It To The Streets - The Doobie Brothers (1976)...
Operation Mincemeat – Historically Good Fun
Operation Mincemeat itself was a successful 1943 deception operation, designed to convince the Nazis that Britain would invade Greece rather than Sicily. The result of this deception would be that the Nazis would move their resources to Greece, enabling the Allies to...
Everything Everywhere All At Once – Explosive, Visionary Brilliance
I almost feel that I cannot write this review. What I saw at the cinema was beyond my powers of description. Michelle Yeoh, James Hong, Stephanie Hsu and Jamie Lee Curtis are a powerhouse team. Evelyn (Yeoh) is juggling so many aspects of 21st Century living, while...