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TL:DR It's brilliant, watch it!

One of the highlights of the past couple of months has been Chinese 'historical' costume drama Nirvana in Fire. I saw this mentioned online a year or so ago and thought that one day I should get round to it, and occasionally saw it again, and when I reached the end of season 3 of Black Sails and had re-watched the ( Read more... )

I have come to the conclusion that even if I won Euromillions and bought a giant mansion including a room dedicated to filing, nay, even if I were God and dwelt in a mansion of infinite rooms, I will never be a person who isn't constantly leaving bits of paper on every flat surface and then getting annoyed when I have to clear it off because I want ( Read more... )

This little BBC article on the importance of an empathetic approach by doctors amused me after my consultation of this morning, which was indeed very cheering and empathetic.

OK, I'm not entirely sure that GPs are supposed to make sarcastic comments about Boris Johnson, but it was very funny and entirely in the context of mutual commiseration about ( Read more... )

From the Guardian: Lingering and painful: the long and unclear road to coronavirus recovery

This morning's mistake was folding the laundry. Not doing it, mind you, just folding it to get it out of the way, and then washing up. Not the sort of thing that generally has one breaking out in chills and fatigue. Arrgh.

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Does exactly what it says on the tin.

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Never let it be said that I am unjust. I have to admit that Love Never Dies is not as bad as I expected, although my expectations were subterranean. I'm not saying that it wasn't absolutely awful, mind you. Just that watching it was not quite as bad as it might be, and it did have potential. Wasted potential. Still, I'm glad that I have seen it and ( Read more... )

I thoroughly enjoyed last Friday's Phantom broadcast, and also got to stop feeling foolish that I hadn't gone to see the production live, because although I still remember the advert from the Observer I had forgotten that it was only on for three performances, and I never knew that the tickets sold out within hours anyway ( Read more... )

PSA: The ALW musicals streaming offer for this weekend is Phantom of the Opera, available from 6:30pm BST for 24 hours in the UK only, 48 elsewhere (rights issues, apparently...). It is here. It's the Albert Hall stage production, not the film, so hopefully the leads will be able to sing ( Read more... )

This year I've been enjoying a return to art as something I am able to pursue when I'm not feeling great. It's something that can be picked up, put down, done according to the strength available at the time, and crucially does not require looking at a screen. So over the past few weeks in between lying on the sofa, sitting in the garden, and ( Read more... )