Only five or six years separate the release of Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot and the film voted the best comedy ever made “Some Like it Hot” but their style of humour could hardly be more different. Tati’s humour is Read More …
Just today I was thinking about the recent blogs that I have published and how they have been influenced and perhaps even owed their origin to movies I have enjoyed over the years. These thoughts were prompted by the recent publication Read More …
These are strange times aren’t they? Wherever you look on the internet, there are signs that people are struggling to fill their time while maintaining their usual interests or indeed profession. Blogs are being written, and vlogging is being practised Read More …
It was way back probably in the late sixties-early seventies and I was representing the City Architect’s Department at a meeting in New Scotland Yard. With me was Chief Superintendent Bob Morris, a high flyer in the Midlands Police Force Read More …
Well these are very strange times to say the least. For photographers. whether enthusiast or professional, the present lockdown will have had a dramatic effect on photographic opportunities. For those lucky enough to live in an area of scenic interest, Read More …
Just the other day, while engaged in a clean-up, I came across a re-print from the Architect’s Journal from early 1979. The reprint was approved by the Architects Journal for use at the official opening ceremony for the Small Heath School Read More …
There’s a spare return ticket to Los Angeles; can you use it? It was just a couple of weeks before Christmas when Steve made me this offer, His original business flight had been changed at the last minute and at Read More …
The British pub has long fulfilled an important role in community life often filling a gap that others were unable to fill. Its very survival has often depended upon it, both as a venue for the occasional solitary drinker and Read More …
Of late it has appeared to me that Herefordshire planners and politicians, ignoring the drive for low-cost affordable housing appear to have put their energies behind what is fondly described as executive houses in environmentally sensitive areas. This I would Read More …
Recent events have provided me with the opportunity to take a look at the role of popular music and its meaning for people of all ages both in the UK and among our European neighbours. Prolonged depressing weather isn’t for Read More …