March 14, 2019• Books
It’s 1988, many years before the events recounted in the first of the Hidden Iceland trilogy, The Darkness. A pair of teenagers have...
Following on from the latest Yrsa Sigurðardóttir novel, I thought I’d stay in Iceland and catch up with Ragnar Jónasson who...
March 11, 2019• Books
The Absolution is the third in the “Children’s House” series of books from one if Iceland’s leading crime writers. A...
March 11, 2019• Internet, Technology
I’m documenting this, just in case there’s someone out there for whom it’s useful. I had two NAS drives, both made by...
March 10, 2019• Photography
Somehow it has been years and years since I last visited Kew Gardens. I managed to visit on the penultimate day of their Orchids –...
March 1, 2019• Books
It’s the early 1980s and our narrator, Lizzie Vogel, is about to leave home for the first time, and move from her village into the city...
February 28, 2019• Media, TV
ITV plc has just reported its annual results, and it was for that reason that we got the announcement of BritBox pretty much...
February 26, 2019• Audio, Radio
When LBC launched in 1973, it was the first Independent Local Radio (ILR) station in the UK. Capital Radio was the second station,...
February 22, 2019• Books
I picked up a copy of Walking in Berlin over Christmas having become fascinated by the period after reading the first couple of Volker...
February 21, 2019• Radio
This morning I Tweeted this, and it got more than a few likes: (NB. I apologise for the misplaced apostrophe in end’s – it...
