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Category Archives: Film
Batman and I
“One August day an eight-year old and his mum are picking blackberries, she is unaware her son is a Superhero and wearing his costume beneath his ordinary clothes. I was expecting a crime wave not a heat wave and as … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Entertainment, Film, History, Humour, Life
Tagged Batman, Batman at 80, Batman's Birthday, DC Comics, Superheroes
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Why I Started Dancing
You know what, it started with a little boys crush, yep, really. I was eight years old and on holiday in Scarborough (Benidorm of the 60’s) I was taken to the Black and White Minstrel Show you can see why it … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Dancing, Film, Humour, Life, Lifestyle, Opinion
Tagged Black and White Minstrel Show, Dance, Dance Shows, Dancers, Dancing, Musicals, Tango
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Me, Batman and Other Superheroes
Someone suggested re-posting old posts and so I recalled this from five years ago, which may have even more relevance today? Watching Kill Bill some years ago I was impressed with Bill’s view of Superheroes. I don’t know if you … Continue reading
Time and Age, Where Does It Go?
Everyone says time passes a lot faster as you get older, but does it? I can’t remember how quickly time passed when I was a kid. If it passed slower back then, was it because I was less busy? I … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Film, History, Humour, Life, Opinion, Politics, Television
Tagged Charlie Robinson, Entertainment, Film, Flicka, Freud, Hercule Poirot, Humour, Interest, Laramie, Laramie Wyoming, Last of the Mohicans, Life, Opinion, People, Sigmund Freud, Television, Writing
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Magical Mystery Tour, There’s no Mystery Really
Last night, Saturday 6th October, the BBC repeated the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour film. There has been a vast array of comments on this film from ‘rubbish’ to ‘phenomenal’. What amazes me is how some people are surprised that the parents … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Fiction, Film, History, Humour, Life, Opinion, people, Television
Tagged Al Green, Alice Cooper, BBC, beatles magical mystery, beatles magical mystery tour, Charlie Robinson, Entertainment, Film, Humour, Interest, Life, Magical Mystery Tour, Monty Python, Noel Gallagher, Opinion, People, Shania Twain, Writing
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A Week in Further Education. Oh My!
So here I am still alive and kicking after my first week as a Carpentry Lecturer in a Further Education College. The first two days were pure induction, now you know I’m not one to pick fault 😉 but really? All … Continue reading
Me, America and all that TV stuff.
I remember many years ago, 1963 to be exact, I loved America. The Lucy Show, Cheyenne, Rawhide, Flicka and Rin Tin Tin. The Kennedy’s were politically irrelevant to a child growing up in the 60’s, but I knew something was … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Film, Humour, Life, Opinion, Television
Tagged Bob Hope, Cary Grant, Entertainment, Film, Frank Sinatra, Harold Wilson, Jason Bourne, Lucy Show, Steve McQueen, Television
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