Actor, writer, director, gardener. Author of The Complete David Bowie. Probably the only Equity member to have played Hamlet, a Dalek and an otter.
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I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Don’t
John, I’m Morris Dancing
The Man With the Sun in his Eyes
Classic Trump projection
In the garden today: pinks on the patio.
Dear @theguardian.com, nice interview with Rufus Norris, but Istanbul is not ‘the Turkish capital’. That’d be Ankara. Are subeditors even a thing any more?
In the garden today: it’s a good year for the roses. This beauty, a gift from some dear friends, goes by the rousingly Shakespearean name of Falstaff.
For anyone still wondering about Dr Blake and his giant dragonfly, here’s another gold-plated quotation from Monster on the Campus, this time from Dr Blake himself: “Over here we have a dragonfly which, for a brief period after ingesting coelacanth blood, became two feet long.” So now you know.
You might just want to stop and think before calling them the Ten Plagues. People living with swarms of locusts have to deal with enough stigma already without this unhelpful labelling etc etc etc
Dear @theguardian.com, nice piece about the rise of octopus numbers in UK waters, but I’ve never heard of ‘conga eels’. Do they dance along in single file? Think you mean ‘conger eels’. Are subeditors even a thing any more?
In the garden today: who doesn’t love a snapdragon? The bees certainly do.
Just watched Monster on the Campus (1958). Outstanding. At one point it has Joanna Moore (mother of Tatum O’Neal) addressing Troy Donahue (immortalised in that song from Grease) with the amazing line “Jimmy, I know that Dr Blake has an illusion about a giant dragonfly but I’d rather not discuss it.”
