Film Review: Win Win (DVD)
Mike (Paul Giamatti) is a good guy, a well-respected family man, though financially flailing and suffering from stress-related anxiety attacks. That’s until he impulsively makes a questionable decision when he…
Boost the value of your house
Since the banking meltdown of 2008, house prices across the land have taken a hammering. It may be good news for prospective first time buyers, but not so good for…
Trout fishing in the Hebrides
I could only have been about ten or so, at that stage where small events leave indelible traces in the memory. The black and white picture on the Trout and…
Australia’s remote Northern Territory
Nearer to Indonesia than any other Australian state capital, Darwin is famously a place where bizarre things happen. The first local newspaper headline we see doesn’t disappoint: ‘Nude Bandit Robs…
City breaks to great film locations
In Bruges (Bruges, Belgium) In Bruges is a dark comedy crime film set in the Belgian city of Bruges. It stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as two hit-men hiding,…
Fishing – an outdoor sport without age barriers
I was in a tackle shop recently, buying the usual irrelevances, when I noticed a woman, a very old woman, making awkwardly towards the door. She was tall, angular and…
Rebels without a clue – delinquency in the 1950s
The photo above was taken back in the late 1950s after we formed ourselves into a notorious gang, the Legh Road Bloods, modelled on the American ones we’d heard about.…
If Tomorrow Never Comes – Why Life Insurance Matters
“I’m gonna live forever”, sang the Kids From Fame 30 years ago. That defiant rejection of the laws of nature is part of the psychology of youth. But somewhere along…
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