The Exmouth Museum is holding its Christmas Coffee and Cakes morning on Thursday 16 December 2021 from 10.30 onwards at the Axis Centre, Market Street, Exmouth, EX8 1HP (just by Nat West Bank). Come along and enjoy coffee, a choice of hot drinks, mince pies and home made cakes; meetContinue Reading
T ickets to some of London’s biggest theatre shows will be on offer at a discounted price in the new year as part of an effort to attract visitors back to the West End. On Tuesday, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan joined photographer Rankin and stars of West End showsContinue Reading
Review at a glance “ What I miss the most” provided not only the title of Jake Heggie’s new song cycle, given its UK premiere at this Barbican concert, but also the theme of the recital by fellow-American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton with Heggie at the piano. As the two performersContinue Reading
S uccession’s central theme is toxic family dysfunction, and the penultimate episode of the third season was basically a walking Philip Larkin poem. Nihilistic pillow talk, unsolicited dick pics, ‘cry for help’ haircuts: the Roy siblings wore their emotional neglect on their sleeves. Naturally, the backdrop for this was theirContinue Reading
Jeremy Irons is fascinated by dysfunctional dynasties. He is telling me about his new film, Ridley Scott’s opulent two-and-a half hour long House of Gucci, in which he plays the dapper patriarch Rodolfo Gucci, and its parallels with contemporary clans in turmoil. “Here we are, a family that has everythingContinue Reading
I n June 2014, Susan and Christopher Edwards were found guilty of murdering Susan’s parents, William and Patricia Wycherley, having shot them at their home in Mansfield over the May Bank Holiday weekend of 1998, then buried them in the garden. Days after the murder, they opened a joint bankContinue Reading
THE CHARLATANS are currently on their (Covid) delayed 30th Anniversary tour and recently released a 6 vinyl LP Box Set to celebrate the anniversary. ‘A Head Full Of Ideas’ is a five album, and exclusive 7”, career-spanning box set that sums up their remarkable progress from 1990 Manchester scene hopefuls to one ofContinue Reading
Latest natural thatching on Exmoor created by storm Arwen…Continue Reading
It was, in many ways, a gleaming example of just how strong our love for music remains. Social media was taken over by statistics, a flurry of figures showing just how many millions of hours we’ve all spent listening to our favourite artists over the past year — whether itContinue Reading
Yes, it’s that time of year again when we debate if it might not be too early to start buying Christmas presents or putting up some lights. When I was growing up, my mother used to decorate the Christmas tree on the 24th December and festive lights in people’s gardensContinue Reading
