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Dickens curiously good on ITV

 
Too busy to post with school Christmas concerts to attend, a house to de-fluff before guests descend and, well, just the two presents to wrap this year. But they will look nice in their brown paper and string.
Just enough time to observe that ITV did a fine job with its repeat of Charles Dickens’ Old [...]

Final verdict on Little Dorrit

I stuck with the BBC’s Little Dorrit in a standard ‘I must appreciate Dickens on TV’ way. But I was robbed of some of the subtleties of the story which must lurk in the original novel. OK, the plot was all explained in the last episode but if the scheduling and overall production had been better, my [...]

Update on life and some TV stuff

Conscious as I am of wanting to update my pet blog, I am constantly being sucked into the time vortex that is eBay. Christ, it’s time-consuming. All I’m trying to do is sell a few children’s coats and some (admittedly over-priced) china (which is complicated - there’s emotional baggage to get rid of too, but [...]

Ranty ranty rant rant rant

Just because I can and to get it off my chest and because it’s Friday and because I can’t follow Little Dorritt well enough to give you a critique (who’s the strangely French man biting fruit and prostitutes in equal measure?)
Why oh why do I stumble across the threshold of my humble abode every day [...]

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