Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes has to rank among the greatest casting coups in history.
He's so good I sometimes believe in time travel. That someone went back in time and got Arthur Conan Doyle to invent Sherlock Holmes just so Jeremy Brett could play him a hundred years later.
Brilliant! Might adopt that for daily use. *Putting something in the oven* “We’re ready to take it to Pangbourne.”
“Of course I was so tongue-tied all night. I can't believe I said that about the Guggenheim,. My stupid rollerskating joke. I should never tell jokes.”
Six Rochefort for a tenner? 🎶 There maybe trouble ahead…
Yes much as the ‘bloody council’ trope is always bandied about I think Calderdale is doing similar, repositioning Hx as a tourist spot, filming location etc. Difficult with so many pressing problems. To my shame I’ve never been to Barnsley even though it’s not that far. Will make amends.
Can't remember who PSA'd this, but THANK YOU. It's not so much listening, more like being beautifully suffused. That voice, man.
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Oh, this is wonderful, ta.
Why are kids from outside of Calderdale even allowed to apply? In the late 70s I lived near the school in question but couldn’t take the 11+ as I fell into the catchment area of the local comp. It’s a strange system that has 100s of 4x4s outside C&P waiting to take kids home to Ilkley and Leeds.
Pho’ne
Yorkshire Dales?
Don’t know if you saw this when it was doing the rounds on here. It made me laugh..
Oh, yes, thanks.
Such a lovely voice.
Halifax, late 80s/90s, the post pub taxi ranks would combust into a carnival of aimless violence. Now it’s an older, more relaxed crowd, craft beer bars, that kind of carry on.
Old pub and a Maigret, the sweet spot.
Just paused to laugh out loud at ‘which is why we never married!’
I’m loving Auditory. Your reading and music takes it to another level. Also, coming from Halifax, resonates with your Croydon for me, different as they are. Not city or country, the butt of a joke, and now I defend it to the hilt.
Hildegard Von Bingen at a small chapel in the Palatinate of the Rhine around 1140. Absolutely wailing, real soul stuff
Prefab Sprout?
Seconded on both points!
Oh yes! Very nice.
Lovely. I very much like this one at Manchester Victoria.
Thanks Andy, yes that’s the plan, taking it easy, a bit of gentle flaneuring, some old fashioned bistros and a look at Proust’s bed!
‘High Alert’, yes, it’s horrible innit? I book trips with all the enthusiasm of the old me forgetting to consult the new me. Off to Paris in a few weeks and the tension’s rising already. I know Paris a bit and we’re going by train so it’s no big deal and yet..
There was a literary type on a LRB podcast recently confidently talking about Wuthering Heights and the landscape around ‘Haywerth’.
Just had a look online, it’s definitely changed! Looks interesting.
Haven’t been in for years but if it’s still the same I’d say stick to the Vic, the Big 6 and the Three Pigeons!
“India, a land of contrasts, where ancient tradition meets hi tech modernity.”
Woking 9 to 5?
Two that I enjoyed, though they only cover a specific time period in the artists lives, Romantic Moderns by Alexandra Harris and The Real and the Romantic by Frances Spalding.