It is the second of my 2022 resolutions and a way of saying goodbye to London. You can check my progress on the theatre front here. To start with I don’t think it’ll end with just 12, actually, I’m sure it won’t. I want to give everyone a fair warning. Having just started to try …
Continue reading 12 Museums for 2022 – Let’s Get Started With an Initial List
In December 2021 going to the theatre for the first time since February 2020 felt truly special. One thing I do love London for is the easy access to the best theatre in Europe. It’s all here on our doorstep and if you hunt well the tickets can be cheaper than VIP seats in a …
Continue reading Four Quartets – T.S. Eliot – 2021 – dir. Ralph Fiennes
It may be a hard situation to imagine, but please try to picture Agatha Christie writing a satirical crime novel about a Polish architecture firm during communism. The book is filled with crazy characters that function in an even more crazy environment. A good mystery with a huge dose of humor. As always in the …
Continue reading Wszyscy Jesteśmy Podejrzani – Joanna Chmielewska
If life for once goes according to plan then by end of October, at the latest, I should be enjoying the mild Spanish autumn. That said London is a huge part of my life. I lived here for the past 12 years and in many ways, good and bad, it shaped me as a person. …
An uplifting if naive take on lives that need changing. Interestingly played between a granddaughter and grandmother adding the layer of complexity that comes with age. A book that means to make you feel good and for the most part achieves it. Yet another book that came with one of the subscription boxes, I don’t …
If everything goes according to plan 2022 should be the year in which I shall leave London and venture back on the continent. With nine months to go (planned move if September/October) how will I say a worthy goodbye to a city that was my home for twelve years? I have several different ideas and …
I could not be happier that this year is coming to a close. I know 2020 was awful, but for me personally, 2021 was far worse. A year opened by third, I think, lockdown in the UK, which basically lasted till April. And with NHS really overwhelmed proved very scary. And then in April, construction …
A damaged family. An overprotective father. A daughter with a new perfect boyfriend. What can go wrong? It is another book from a bookish advent calendar I got from my friend as my birthday gift. The first one was not a roaring success, but since I read it, it got me out of a reading …
It is one of those books that you do judge by the cover. And the cover tells you it is another run-of-the-mill thriller. Now, it can be one of the better ones providing a few hours of escapism, or it can be a mediocre one that will steal a few hours from you in a …
In London I was not so content as I am here on the lake and in the Alps, where there is solitude for the mind. London is perpetual; a constant streaming, present hurrying towards a receding future. Here, where time is neither so crammed nor so scarce, I fancy, anything might happen, anything is possible. …
Continue reading Frankissstein: A Love Story – Jeanette Winterson – Quotes
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