Don’t let the on-going Hollywood writer’s strike get you down. With both sides meeting this week for the first time in just about a month, there actually might be a flicker of a light at the end of the tunnel with, hopefully, the studios understanding the gravity of the WGA and SAG concerns, come to […]
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Hard to believe we are nearing the end of our 2023 KERA All Creatures Great and Small Tour of England but, alas, there is but one more stop on the way back to London and our last night dinner with 26 of our newest friends. But…what an amazing stop it was. Belvoir Castle has served a […]
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Yes, I bounded out of bed this morning fresh off a 2.5 mile walking of the walls around the city of York so, combined with the fact that we were headed to the Yorkshire Dales and the filming locations for All Creatures Great and Small, this is going to be a great day all the way […]
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Unfortunately, you won’t get a chance to down a few with Coach Lasso or his well-grounded, longtime assistant and friend, Coach Beard nor will you get to sing “Roy Kent, Roy Kent, he’s here, he’s there, he’s every-f***ing-where, Roy Kent, Roy Kent” with the AFC Richmond supporters from The Crown & Anchor, but up to 12 insanely […]
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While Larry, the Chief Mouser at 10 Downing Street, deservedly grabs most of the headlines these days in the British press, there’s another British cat the warrants a bit of ink (and, not just on page 3 of the The Sun). England’s Winston Churchill gained a well-deserved reputation as one of the best known and […]
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DI Humphrey Goodman (a.k.a. Kris Marshall) spent three years in ‘paradise’ on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie. Remember, it was DI Goodman who initially arrived to investigate the death of his predecessor, DI Richard Poole, who fell victim to a very unfriendly ice pick in the chest at the beginning of series 3. Described […]
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Trader Vic’s, the classic Polynesian-themed tiki bar that has served London for over 60 years from the basement of the London Hilton hotel on Park Lane will close its doors on or before 31 December. While there are only a handful of Trader Vic’ses left around the globe, the closing of the London camp classic of […]
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Scottish-born Ashley Jensen (May to December, Eastenders, Ugly Betty, After Life, Extras) who stars as the middle-aged public relations agent who sold her Mayfair public relations firm and fled London for the supposedly peaceful cobblestone streets of the Cotswolds and early retirement in Agatha Raisin, is headed north to Scotland to take over for DI Jimmy Perez […]
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With temperatures across the globe hitting record highs the past couple of days, I hope everyone is staying hydrated, staying in the shade and surviving as best you can. 110 degrees is bad enough where I am but one can’t even begin to fathom it being 104F (40C) in London today which is, reportedly, the highest temperature on record to date.
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A perfect example of just how awesome the internet can be shows itself in this thought-to-be-lost video of Adam West’s Batman teaching road safety to London school children. In this May 1967 advert, the Caped Crusader is shown teaching the Green Cross Code to youngsters on London’s streets.
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