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MILFs & Boon

Thursday, July 22, 2021

Or; in the kitchen with my best mate’s mum . About mid-February last year, we were sitting around one afternoon, exchanging the usual disenchantments on the subject of St Valentine’s Day, when my best mate’s mum casually dropped into conversation the fact that in her younger days she once co-wrote a book for Mills & […]

Filed in Non-fictions | Also tagged American, Bernado Bertolucci, books, Charlotte Rampling, Chelsea, diagrams, Dominic Hilton, education, Falkland Islands Museum and National Trust, food, girls, jizz, John Bunyan, kebabs, Manchester, Mandarin, Maryland, MILFs, Mills & Boon, mothers, North Derbyshire, nuts, Portugal, Russians, servants, sex, stuffing, Swedes, the Seventies, the UN, Valentine's Day, Vienna, Wales, Working Party of the UK Federation for Education in Home Economics, Yule log | Comments (0)

Creation-ism

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

This weekend I will be joining a local choral society for their performance of Haydn’s The Creation – and what better way to welcome Spring now that it’s finally arrived. An avowed and much-loved masterpiece from its earliest performances – Vienna, 1798 – ‘whose appeal [I read from A Peter Brown’s DECCA sleeve-notes] was irresistible […]

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Also tagged A Peter Brown, Aled Jones, army, bassoons, Beethoven, Chapel Royal, choral societies, Christianity, cosmology, cricket, DECCA, German, Germans, Hampton Court, Handel, Haydn, Italians, Kent, King James, Maidstone, Milton, music, Napoleon, oratorio, Oxford University, Poetry, religion, school, sheep, singing, Spring, the Bible, the Church of England, The Oldie, the Oxford Spezzati, tigers, Vienna, war, West Kensington, whales, worms | Comments (0)

An honest pisstake

Friday, September 8, 2017

Pissing Figures: 1280–2014 by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn (transl. Jeff Nagy) David Zwirner Books, 168pp, £11.95 . From a Cimabue cherub to Szydlowski/-lowska’s Lenin, simply everyone is pissing. In pen and ink, paint on canvas, plaster, wood, stone, polymer, block prints, engraving, chamber pots, aquatints, dishware, film, manuscripts, inlay, public statuary, trick-photography, and in a Japanese video […]

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged Abraham Bosse, Andrew Lincoln, art, Bartosz Szydlowski, books, Christ, Cimabue, criticism, Cupid, David Zwirner Books, history, Japan, Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, Jeff Nagy, Jeffrey Lebowski, Lenin, Malgorzata Szydlowska, Mars, Michelangelo, Paula Radcliffe, sex, Snow White, The Amorist, Titian, urine | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, May 22, 2017

. There are more fragrant white flowers than of any other colour. — The Nelson Evening Mail, July 13 1908 . The inhabitants of Ipswich are the least passionate in the UK, having sex on average only 18 times per annum. Gazelles are quite amenable to snuff. Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich was a fully-trained football referee and […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged Aberystwyth, Americans, anatomy, children, Déodat-Guy-Sylvain-Tancrède Gratet de Dolomieu, drink, eBay, film, football, gazelles, Great Portland Street, Ipswich, James IV, Jesse James, languages, literature, mineralogy, Nelson Evening Mail, obscenity, Scotland, sex, Shostakovich, tennis, the Bible, tobacco, UK, wives, writing | Comments (1)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, January 30, 2017

. Pineapples are so plentiful in Natal at certain seasons that they are not worth carting to market, and so are often given to pigs. — The Nelson Evening Mail, September 27 1906 . The French king Louis XIII was known as ‘the Just’ because he was born under the sign of the Libra. Maxwell […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged America, Aristarchus, astrology, books, Bromley, buses, Cervantes, children, Cuba, finance, Finland, Greek, Greenwich, Ian Fleming, Jeremy McConnell, Latin, Lewisham, punctuation, radio, rivers, sea-faring, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Stephanie Davis, tea, the Bible, the moon, train-travel, Walford | Comments (0)

La Fille du régiment

Friday, April 20, 2012

Donizetti’s silliness at the ROH, reviewed. — For theartsdesk

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged Ann Widdecombe, Donizetti, music, opera, Royal Opera House, Switzerland, theartsdesk | Comments (0)