You’d think, given the miles he has clocked up over the many centuries that Santa has been delivering presents all around the world that he’d have the whole sleigh maintenance thing down pat. And yet, time after narratively convenient time, the big red guy’s sleigh inevitably comes a cropper, dragging Continue Reading
On 11th day of Christmas … I read An Island Christmas by Jenny Colgan #BookReview
Christmas is a pretty powerful time of the year. Or, at least, that’s the way it often seems with popular culture and some sort of giddy group consensus joining together to ordain it as the time of the year, the most wonderful time of the year in fact, when just Continue Reading
Movie review: Star Wars – The Rise of Skywalker
You might find it hard to believe but there are downsides to being the steward of one of the most successful cinema franchises of all time. Star Wars, which took the world by storm in 1977 when George Lucas released his charmingly low budget swashbuckling sci-fi epic, A New Hope Continue Reading