the man in the white suit

Ealing’s impossible dream of the cloth that lasts forever

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In Living Colour: A Matter of Life and Death

My favourite British Technicolor film

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Carrot

a tale of palate and palette

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a postcard from Argyll

how do we look at a landscape when there might seem to be nothing to see?

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Leningrad

On Friday evening, Tom and I went to see Neeme Järvi conducting the RSNO in Shostakovitch’s 7th. I don’t think I have ever seen the Usher Hall so full – there wasn’t a spare seat to be seen – with many emotional Russians among the audience. Personally, I think it is very hard not to…

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