One of the reasons we wanted to go to Vienna was to see an exhibition of Kubin’s works at the Leopold Museum. Vienna’s museums and art galleries are mostly arranged in one area of the city, the aptly named Museum Quarter, so despite the raging heat and our incipient hunger we found our way to […]Read Post ›
Couldn’t put it down. Better than the first Thursday Club, because it doesn’t spend so much time explaining who is who. I love Joyce and her self deprecating asides. Lovely Bogdan, the token Pole, has a smaller role to play here, but still twinkles blue eyes and tattoos when necessary. Chris, the fat policeman who […]Read Post ›
Another great book by AK Turner. I feel I should have read the first in the series first but, never mind. I enjoyed the twists and turns that Cassie Raven, mortuary assistant, suffers in her search for the truth about her parents. Most of all of course I loved the fact that our heroine’s grandmother […]Read Post ›
Sher and I saw this fire hydrant across the street from the Immaculate Conception Convent of the Third Order of the Sisters of St. Francis in … Holy hydrant
A few days ago I wrote about my minuscule part in The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, a play written as an allegory to the witch-huntery of communists and sympathisers in McCarthy’s America. A powerful play, when properly performed, thought provoking and disturbing. Witch-hunting is nothing new. Rumour, the spread of gossip, the false reporting, conspiracy […]Read Post ›
A couple of weeks ago my youngest daughter suggested that we go to Vienna. She is on a three month sabbatical with time on her hands, I’m not working, and her brother speaks German. So we decided to go. (Today I actually found an email from February – Andrzej asking if we could go to […]Read Post ›
The Russian military has a long list of failures since their invasion of Ukraine began on February 24th. We are almost five months removed from that … To Have & Not To Hold – The Final Fight For Luhansk (The Russian Invasion of Ukraine #135)
For all those mentioned in the programme. If you remember, get in touch! Looking through some stuff the other day I came across this newspaper cutting, lovingly preserved by my father, and the memories of one of my most embarrassing moments came flooding back. As you may have realised, acting is not one of my […]Read Post ›
This past week, Alexei Gorinov, a municipal deputy in an outlying district of Moscow, was sentenced to seven years in prison for denouncing Russia’s … Words of War – Vladimir Putin’s Special Military Operation (The Russian Invasion of Ukraine #129)
Fear has a way of focusing the mind, that praise never does. Some philosophers have gone so far as to call fear the greatest of motivators. When it … Fear or Failure – The Consequences of Russian Victory (The Russian Invasion of Ukraine #126)
Life Through Basia's Eyes 