Just as I posted about friendship as love, I thought I’d post one of my all time favourites: Love Is a Beautiful Thing by Al Green. Featured in many romantic movies, to me this is simply one of ...
There are certain recordings that are simply the best. I can listen to no other version of the 3rd movement of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata than that by Daniel Barenboim. Similarly, Yehudi Menuh...
At the end of November I went to Liverpool, more or less on the spur of the moment, as I often do. My adventurer’s spirit was well rewarded with a visit to Liverpool One Wheel. The report below ...
All of us who love soul will know Gladys Knight. Midnight Train to Georgia, I Heard It Through the Grapevine… And a wonderful version of a traditional Christmas song, Do You Hear What I Hear? I ...
Over at People’s Almanac there are several impressive galleries of rare postcards. In a way, there is something for everyone, be it Soviet World War II posters, pin-up girls, or Picasso’s ...
A cover of the Russian edition of tales by Gianni Rodari La Freccia Azzurra (The Adventures of the Blue Arrow in English) is one of the books by the Italian author Gianni Rodari that I adored as a chi...
Today is officially the first day of December, and as we are getting busier and busier preparing to Christmas and New Year I’d like to wish all of us, regardless of exactly what holidays we will...
A friend of mine shared this video clip with us before jetting off to Ibiza in summer. I have been hooked since, even though I can only recognise certain words in Spanish (corazon de vagabundo sounds ...
Some of you will instantly recognise a paraphrase of the title of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa in the post’s title. I remember reading it in about 1998 in Moscow. I was ...