Call me behind time but I only just watched the 2020 Oscar winning Nomadland. What I love about this beautifully scripted and superbly filmed movie is how it shows the power of a kind community to help the heart broken protagonist, played by Francis McDormand, to keep...
I’m a hyper local lass. It could be a habit left over from lockdowns, but truth is everything I need is in Belsize Park or Hampstead or on the Finchley Road. In the spring and summertime, I might not even bother to go to a nearby park to get my nature nourishment,...
Perhaps like me you were coughing through the last days of 2023 and as soon as Secret Santa had been played out, you found yourself several films and series later at New Year’s Eve with a traditional list of resolutions, or, as imaginative blue-sky thinkers might...
At Christmastime I often think about people who would like to celebrate but can’t. Many of us experienced that when Christmas 2020 was cancelled, but this year as usual, families and friends will gather to make merry. Recently I met two people who will be spending the...
This Christmas, I might do something different and buy a book prescription as a gift for a friend or relative. Mostly I’m inspired because I recently met book curator and bibliotherapist Bijal Shah who has the knowledge and insight to recommend or prescribe novels...
