After much nail-biting, which may have occurred in multiple dimensions depending on the day, and which version of me was doing the worrying, it’s been confirmed by a number of sites that Fringe will be back for a final 13 episodes. There was uncertainty about whether this would happen, so Continue Reading
Review: “The Visitors” (Deluxe edition) – ABBA
The front cover of the deluxe version which was released today [via] I am of a certain vintage now I will admit it, and being a person of that unspecified vintage (although the Sherlockian among you should be able to hazard a reasonable accurate guess about my age simply by Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2012: Week 4
It occurred on the way to writing this week’s instalment on the glittery yellow brick road to Eurovision that I hadn’t regaled you with even one solitary piece of Eurovision trivia, a glaring oversight when there are so many pages devoted to that very thing. So to rectify such an Continue Reading
The romantic aroma of old books
Admit it – you walk into a second hand bookstore and all you can smell is the delightful, or possibly, offensive smell of old books. As Richard Davies of worldwide online bookseller, abebooks.com, and an expert on rare books, explains in this information-filled video, old books have a distinctive smell Continue Reading
Review: “Battleship”
I have long suffered from blockbuster phobia. Too many times I have believed the hype, bravely ventured into the popcorn strewn, choc top infested local multiplex only to find my hopes dashed on rocks so inane they feel like hollow tubes of polystyrene as they crush beneath me. So burned Continue Reading
Sonic Bliss #6: My favourite songs of the week
So much music that my small and dainty ears cannot possibly accommodate it all. Or can they? I say a resounding yes and so, here is this week’s pick of the new music that has danced its way into my mind, and if I wanted to go all Hallmark syrupy Continue Reading
The return of “Arrested Development”
Arrested Development, a clever, literate sitcom created by Mitchell Hurwitz which featured the dysfunctional travails of the once wealthy Bluth family and ran from 2003-2006 is back from the dead! It was a critical darling from the moment it was broadcast into peoples’ living rooms, but alas, though it was Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2012: Week 3
Yes it’s time to review this week’s crop of Eurovision hopefuls and what have I gone and done? Left my Ukrainian grandmother at home! Now she won’t be able to burst into the blog post at a completely unexpected moment and dazzle you all with her totally surplus-to-requirements writing (much Continue Reading
The high cost of being Eurovision fabulous
Ever since ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 with the aid of an upbeat pop song “Waterloo”, the dulcet tones of Agnetha and Annifrid, and the tightest lycra pants known to man, the contest has been widely seen by the artists who participate in it as the perfect Continue Reading
I love my Scandinavian pop! 3
The siren song of Scandinavia has seduced me again and I cannot hold off bringing more of the talented artists from northern Europe. My love affair with all things Scandipop began innocently enough back in the, ahem, 1970s when ABBA burst onto the scene and I fell completely head over Continue Reading