In Conversation with: Tim Bentinck

In the latest of our occasional series ‘In Conversation With’, we are delighted to welcome actor, author, songwriter, website designer and the voice of “Mind the Gap” on the Piccadilly Line – Tim Bentinck. Although probably best known as David Archer in the BBC’s ultra-long-running radio series The Archers Tim has many other strings to [...]

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Coming Up This Week …

This week the Foxes are looking closely and with much enthusiasm at The Archers, Chinese New Year, history, the joy of fonts and alternative realities, so it’s an exciting and colourful week with a little something for all. Monday: Moira chats with actor Tim Bentinck who steps out from behind his radio persona of David [...]

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Metamorphosis – a theatre adaptation from Franz Kafka by Steven Berkoff

Before I  go any further, I should apologize to anyone who’s arrived here expecting a profound and incisive examination of the enigma that is Franz Kafka and All His Works.  Those are waters into which I have no intention of stepping – well, not very far, anyway.  What follows is more along the lines of [...]

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Eek! ….

Sorry.  The Kafka/Berkoff post popped up prematurely.  If you read it and felt it ended a little abruptly … you were absolutely right. It’ll reappear shortly fully clothed – I promise. (Retreats in confusion …) Moira.

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The Sisterhood by Emily Barr: the general peculiarity of families …

Who is Elizabeth Greene? To me, she’s everything. I’ve always felt something was missing. And then I found out I had a sister I never knew existed. Elizabeth Greene: I had to meet her. My plan was to get to know her before telling her our secret. But this isn’t how I imagined it. I [...]

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A Mistletoe Kiss by Katie Flynn

It was only a mistletoe kiss, Miss Preece told herself, stepping out into the icy December evening and locking the library doors behind her. A mistletoe kiss means nothing, everyone knows that; but this did not quench the warm glow inside her. Hetty Gilbert is a canal child with no permanent address, so when she [...]

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Agricultural Records A.D. 220-1968, by J. M. Stratton

A favourite from my bookshelves This book is a bit of a guilty pleasure. It has an interesting history – compiled by two Wiltshire farmers of two different generations, it lists year by year information about weather, crops and agricultural prices. Though agricultural conditions are less important and relevant now, in pre-industrial times this information [...]

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Downtown sung by Petula Clark

Recently, I downloaded this old song from Petula Clark onto my Ipod nano in a rare nostalgic mood.It reminds me of a good memory from my childhood; my sister and I riding our tricycles around the driveway on a summer day with the song playing loudly from the dashboard radio of my stepfather’s red and [...]

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A Bit of Lit Debate for a Lazy Sunday

Looking for a little literary debate to liven up this lazy Sunday afternoon? Why not check out Are All Opinions Equal? by Shelf Love asking what it is that makes one person’s literary opinion worth more than another’s. Or not, as the case maybe. To quote from her post: Not all bookish disagreements take the [...]

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Coming Up This Week

For most of us, it’s frosty weather outside, so the Foxes have some suggestions for distractions from the temperatures; with music, light reading or serious literature. And Hilary reminds us that eventually, there will be green plants sprouting in the fields. It’s a welcome thought. * * * * * * * * * * [...]

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