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WON'T FIND IT HERE.
In Personal Corner.
I always liked 'Tommy' Beecham (pictured) and thought of him as a
musical version of my roguish Uncle Charlie.
They don't make 'em like that anymore.
TELEVISION.
Sky Arts. We have recently been 'discovering' those fine actors Ernest Borgnine, Gene Hackman, Leslie Howard, Lee Marvin and Richard Widmark again with this sympathetic biographical series. There are more that I must watch out for. Four of the above five started their film lives as 'baddies' and went on to become popular 'goodies.' That's acting.
The BBC Proms, modern music notwithstanding, was mostly good again this year. I particularly enjoyed the Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Ivan Fischer: their Hungarian 'gypsy' night had me feeling happily Brahms and Liszt (sorry).
I was initially less certain about the Grieg Piano Concerto, played with impressive hair by French-Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili, but it too was a resounding success. The Estonian Festival Orchestra, conducted by Paavo Jarvi, also performed Sibelius's Symphony No.5 in E Flat. Bit out of my zone.
Picnic At Hanging Rock on BBC2 was not to my taste either.
I've never liked al fresco dining.
Bodyguard on BBC1 looks good so far. (SPOILER) Keeley Hawes plays ambitious Home Secretary Julie Montague and Richard Madden plays war torn DS David Budd, her protection officer.
Episode 2 has just gone by and already they are at it like knives.
In reality I have only known one Special Branch policeman good looking enough to be a television-type protection officer. He had (still has) a pretty little wife and far more sense than to have ever become involved in an impossible relationship with a female politician.
No, this is just excellently acted television twaddle.
I shall, of course, watch every episode right until the (doubtless bitter) end.
Enough now. Mind how you go.
In Personal Corner.
Where
it's our family news: starting
with Jess Daisy White who is currently back on the Island and living
with mother Roz and brother Ellis.
Last Monday she and her mum went
to Southampton to buy her graduation dress and in the above picture
she can be seen wearing it. Gran (who took the photo) and Popsy (who
has her permission to reproduce it here) are proud, fond and slightly
in awe of her. She has done commendably well at the University of
Hertfordshire, obtaining - alongside a MPharm - an award for best
clinical student of her year. Right now she is working her pre reg.
year at the pharmacy in East Cowes and continuing her studies,
simultaneously proving to be a sympathetic, and much appreciated,
applier of Roz's weekly inoculations. Roz, despite an unpleasant forty
eight hours of bone pain and the departure in tufts of her remaining
hair (she has now just about completely shaven it off), continues to
radiate positivity.
Yesterday she went for her second chemo.
Yesterday she went for her second chemo.
Next Tuesday
she and Jess's dad, Daryl, will drive up to Hatfield with Jess for the graduation ceremony.
Back here in Ventnor our daughter-in-law, Pauline, and some of her
artist friends put on their annual Inspired By Wight
exhibition at the Botanical Gardens.
It was a delightful collection,
well attended, and we enjoyed every minute of our visit to it.
My
Leader and I plod along our disparate paths, she doing anything she
can for family, friends, anybody; me currently concluding the
revision of my book for children aged 9 to 99 (first undertaken in
the 1970s) by adding more chapters relevant to the 21st century.
Title is still The Badgers of Deep Wood:
Mo likes it.
Well, it stops me joining a moped gang.
Oh,
we were visited last week by Mo's nephew Phil and his wife, Julie, who
came from Gosport early one morning and spent the day with us. Phil,
who is making a slow but sure recovery from cancer (thank the gods
and modern medicine), also brought me a present from his brother,
Steve, of a little book called Beecham Stories, which
I much enjoyed.They don't make 'em like that anymore.
TELEVISION.
Sky Arts. We have recently been 'discovering' those fine actors Ernest Borgnine, Gene Hackman, Leslie Howard, Lee Marvin and Richard Widmark again with this sympathetic biographical series. There are more that I must watch out for. Four of the above five started their film lives as 'baddies' and went on to become popular 'goodies.' That's acting.
The BBC Proms, modern music notwithstanding, was mostly good again this year. I particularly enjoyed the Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Ivan Fischer: their Hungarian 'gypsy' night had me feeling happily Brahms and Liszt (sorry).
I was initially less certain about the Grieg Piano Concerto, played with impressive hair by French-Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili, but it too was a resounding success. The Estonian Festival Orchestra, conducted by Paavo Jarvi, also performed Sibelius's Symphony No.5 in E Flat. Bit out of my zone.
Picnic At Hanging Rock on BBC2 was not to my taste either.
I've never liked al fresco dining.
Bodyguard on BBC1 looks good so far. (SPOILER) Keeley Hawes plays ambitious Home Secretary Julie Montague and Richard Madden plays war torn DS David Budd, her protection officer.
Episode 2 has just gone by and already they are at it like knives.
In reality I have only known one Special Branch policeman good looking enough to be a television-type protection officer. He had (still has) a pretty little wife and far more sense than to have ever become involved in an impossible relationship with a female politician.
No, this is just excellently acted television twaddle.
I shall, of course, watch every episode right until the (doubtless bitter) end.
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