Interview with members of the George Formby Society, as they attempt to break an online ukulele-playing record. — For The Critic
Filed in feature, interview, Journalism
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Also tagged Alastair Cook, America, army, Australia, banjos, Batley, BBC, Bette Davis, bingo, Blackpool, Canada, Covid-19, cricket, Cyprus, dating, Ed Balls, Facebook, Falkland Islands Radio Service, France, Frank Skinner, friends, George Formby, German, Germany, grandmothers, Guinness, Gyles Brandreth, Harry HIll, Hawaii, Humphrey Bogart, jellyfish, lyrics, mental health, music, naturism, nuclear power, proletarians, Queen Elizabeth II, records, Royal Albert Hall, Russia, Simon Rose, smut, Swahili, The Critic, The Daily Telegraph, the George Formby Society, the Queen Mother, the RAF, Tottenham, ukuleles, Warrington Museum, Welsh, windows, WWII, Yorkshire, Zoom
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The Sri Lankan destination-wedding photographer talks about the greatest shot he never got… and one he did. — For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times
Filed in column, interview, Journalism
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Also tagged Aftab Shivdasani, balloons, Bollywood, celebrity, Dylan Seedin. photography, fashion, Greece, Hawaii, Indians, Indonesia, Nin Dusanj, phones, portraits, rain, SLR Lounge, Sri Lanka, Sunday Times (SL), Tangalle, taxis, technology, Turkey, weddings, wind
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A weapons-grade Bloomsburyist, Duncan Grant (1885-1978) spent much of his early childhood in India (natch), where his grandfather had been Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. He ‘became interested in Japanese prints’ while still at prep school. After attending St Paul’s, Westminster School of Art and the Slade School – interspersed with stints in Italy and France, of […]
Filed in Non-fictions
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Also tagged Abyssinia, art, Bengal, Bloomsbury, Clive Bell, David Garnett, Duncan Grant, fancy dress, France, Horace de Vere Cole, India, Leonard Woolf, painting, portraits, Royal Navy, St Paul's Cathedral, St Paul's School, The Slade School, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Westminster School of Art, WWI, WWII
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Thursday, January 17, 2019
Of queens, Slovenes, and the birthplace of James Douglas Morrison. — For Queen Mob’s Tea House
Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE
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Also tagged Bach, bulls, construction, crime, Denmark, Europeans, family, George Herbert, Gilgamesh, Jim Morrison, money, Nelson Evening Mail, obscenity, poets, Queen Mob's Tea House, royalty, running, satire, Sheba, Slovenians, Special Branch, the English, vomit, wood, writing, Zbigniew Herbert
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Thursday, November 15, 2018
The Spanish Inquisition, and other matters unexpectedly arising. — For Queen Mob’s Tea House
Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE
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Also tagged Angola, anthems, Bosnia, Brazil, cricket, Croatia, De Selby, death, Denmark, Ecuador, film, Finland, Fox News, France, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, housing, Hungary, Israel, Laos, libraries, money, Mongolia, Nelson Evening Mail, Nepal, New Zealand, November, peace, Portugal, Queen Mob's Tea House, rainbows, religion, roosters, satire, Senegal, sex, sexting, Spain, Spike Lee, Switzerland, Tajikistan, the Forth Bridge, the Marseillaise, the Victorians, Tonbridge School, train-travel, Trinidad and Tobago, trousers, UK, Venezuela, writing, Yorkshire
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. There are more Jews in New York than there are in Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland put together. They worship in 37 synagogues. Every fifth person belongs to the family of Abraham. — The Nelson Evening Mail, December 1 1906 . Coleraine Blackjack is the cheapest porter in the world. Thomas Nelson […]
Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE
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Also tagged anatomy, Australia, Ben Affleck, books, Britain, Bruca Chatwin, Canada, Coleraine, Colombo, computers, crime, Cuba, death, Devon, drink, East Africa, emojis, flags, France, Germany, health, hyenas, Judaism, London, Microsoft, money, Nelson E, New York, Northern Ireland, philosophy, religion, River Dart, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, tattoos, Thomas Nelson, West Africa, West Dart, Wittgenstein
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‘If success does not throw the Irishmen off their balance, they may go on winning and winning until the height of a season’s ambition may be attained.’ — Athletic News and Cyclists’ Journal, 3 February 1896 . When it comes to the 6 Nations, in recent years the fixtures guys have done well making sure […]
Filed in correspondence, Journalism
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Also tagged 6 Nations Championship, Australia, barristers, Brian Moore, British and Irish Lions, Cardiff Arms Park, cricket, debuts, Douglas Hyde, Dublin, embroidery, England, France, French Foreign Legion, gloves, golf, Grand Slam, Guinnness, hockey, humour, Ireland, Irish Rugby Football Union, James Sealy, Journalism, judges, justice, King's Counsel, law, Marylebone Cricket Club in Ireland, Oliver Cromwell, painting, Poetry, politics, religion, Robert Johnstone, rugby, Samuel Beckett, Sarah Purser, Saxons, Scotland, Second Boer War, South Africa, sport, St Patrick's Day, tea, The Athletic News and Cyclists' Journal, the Fates, The Times, Tom Crean, Trinity College Dublin, Triple Crown, Ulster, Una Hyde, Victoria Cross, Wales, Yeats
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. Few of those who know and admire the camellia, that waxlike and pure flower, are aware that the parent plant, the origin of the million plants scattered throughout Europe, is still alive and is in Italy. — The Nelson Evening Mail, January 22 1907 . The Taliban now control more territory in Afghanistan than they did […]
Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE
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Also tagged Afghanistan, Alex Haley, Americans, castanets, D-Day, dancing, death, fishing, flora, France, genealogy, hats, history, Icelandic, Ireland, Khmer, Lakshman Joseph de Saram, linguistics, Miles Davis, musicians, Nelson Evening Mail, ostriches, phones, Playboy, politics, race, religion, royalty, shit, Sri Lanka, the Taliban, Theresa May, Vikings, violin, vomit, war, woodpeckers
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Monday, September 4, 2017
. The typewriter is more largely used in Mexico than in France. — The Nelson Evening Mail, August 2 1906 . In 1943 a British pilot made an emergency landing on the Italian island of Lampedusa, only to have it surrender to him. Kelo trees live for up to 3,500 years, and remain standing for another 700. […]
Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE
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Also tagged air travel, arachnids, Arthur C Clarke, coffee, death, dictionaries, Egypt, electricity, food, France, fruit, humour, José Mauricio Nunes Garcia, Manchester, marketing, Mexico, Michael Jackson, Mozart, music, Nelson Evening Mail, painting, Pliny the Elder, politics, Spinal Tap, the Labour Party, trees, typewriters, Walliston, war
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An A-W of (alternative) artistic terminology Arte Povera – affordable art Brücke, die – German successors to the Fauvists (later disbanded amid accusations of Fauvoritism) colour – the new ‘black’ deconstruction – critic’s hatchet-job Edvard Munch – AaaaaaaaAAAAARRRGHH!! Freud – act of ripping people off Gauguin – one employed in knocking out Tahitian pearl […]
Filed in Fictions
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Also tagged art, colour, criticism, die Brucke, Edvard Munch, Fauvists, France, Freud, Germany, Jasper Johns, Land Art, Neo-Expressionism, Paul Gauguin, Pompidou, Ryman, Tahiti, Tjapaltjarri
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