‘Please tell me you have cake.’ You do have to pity a bewildered spouse. There he is, gently knocking on the bedroom door to check on you at 5.15 pm, after you’ve retired for an hour with another scratching, mean-cat of a headache and that seeping I’m tired from growing a human malaise. A weak […]
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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 […]
This is a pie for those days when you just can’t make up your mind. You might be tossing up whether there is any point continuing to watch Breaking Bad (half a season in. It just seems a little… grim). You may be pondering what in the heck we’re going to do about the Eurozone. […]