I’ve just finished my second reading of Shirley Jackson’s short ghostly novel.  Short novels are such a blessing in this digital age – just long enough, in this case 246 pages, to capture and maintain my ever-decreasing attention span (your own attention span may be … Continue reading The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson – Disjointed Musings Thereof

*Not many spoilers at all* Let’s start at the very beginning; a very good place to start…….oops, wrong film and I was thinking about Julie Andrews, but I’m not thinking about Julie anymore (such is the quicksilver and mostly hollow nature of fame) and that’s … Continue reading Mary Poppins Returns

Such has been my level of busy-ness over the past few weeks that one family member asked if I’d retired from the blog that no-one reads.  We’ve had builders in and I’m now in the process of painting all the rooms they made alterations to … Continue reading The Christmas Lunch

(I've been reading seminal papers on artificial intelligence, some of them surprisingly old, by several geniuses in the field, none of whom I'd heard of.  However old you get, there's always a world of things out there that you don't know.  They got me thinking … Continue reading The Turing Test

(With Spoiler) First Man is l-o-n-g at 2 hrs 21 minutes and not a second too long in my opinion.  You might think that, of all films, this one would be a spoiler-free zone – after all we know its hero made it safely to … Continue reading First Man

Years ago, during my thirties and forties, I used to exercise to a video tape featuring Beverley Callard, otherwise known as Liz McDonald (of all people) from Coronation Street.  But it turns out that Beverley’s other job was being a fitness instructor and her video … Continue reading The One Real Benefit of Exercise

The colouring bug bit me again a few months ago, after yet another period of marked disinterest in all things adult colouring.  This time around I became fully enamoured of the Romantic Country books again and got myself the second and third books in the … Continue reading Colouring, Choirs and Audacity 6