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The main thing 2023 taught me was that having a newborn in the house changes your life in ways you can’t comprehend in advance. Similarly, you might think 4 months off work for paternity leave might afford a little extra reading time, perhaps? But that’d be naively ignoring your near-total inability to concentrate due to…
When it came time to write the customary summary of my media consumption for 2022 I began it thinking that it must definitely have been on par with 2021 – so that’s the influence of anecdotal info there, because having a newborn in the house seems to have aggressively accelerated my watching but it WASN’T…
And here was me thinking I watched a lot of things on the telly in 2020, eh? Who knew THAT was coming… There’s no point lamenting the comparatively few *actual* blogposts between the last one of these and this one, because yet again in a plague-bedecked world there’s not only nothing of import to write…
How about that lung-eating virus that kept us all at home all year, eh? It’s normal for me at this time of year to feel some sort of urge to write an “end of year roundup” post about all the stuff I’ve done, in a sort of nod towards the posts I used to make…
OK so one element of this “media roundup” tradition I’ve started for myself seems to be that I don’t actually write most of the notes til the end of the year, which inevitably spill over into the next year, and the recollections I have are sketchy to the point of irrelevance. So, I’m going to…
Rekindling a tradition I guess I’ve started for myself, I’ve figured out a way to put together a list of all the films, TV and books that I’ve pointed my eye-stalks at this year – and the fanciness is that for 2019 and beyond I can write the summaries as the year goes by rather…
In break with last year’s effort, I thought maybe February would be a good time to go through the process of my annual Film, Book and TV roundup. Initially aiming to get this written up in January, I found myself thinking “But, who cares?”. And then remembering the reason I started all this blogging malarkey…
Mid-March isn’t too late for a 2014 roundup, is it? It’s still the same financial year… and I’d hate to break the chain now that I’ve done this for 2011, 2012 and 2013! So, with that, here’s the 2014 Media Lists. With a rudimentary thumbs up/down system, just for giggles. Books I did absolutely bugger…
As the early months of the year now almost dictate (in that I’ve done it twice now), it’s time to look back over the list of films/movies/motion pictures (as you prefer) I’ve seen and books that I’ve read, and reminisce, summarise, and highlight just by how much I missed the point and/or artistic merits of…
As begun last year (and, even slightly MORE delayed than last year), I thought an ideal blog topic was a list of the films that I watched over the last 12 months, and a brief description of each (in the ongoing quest to try to write a blogpost of under 800 words)… The Ghost Writer…