A blog that set out to list my cultural top trumps could depress me right now – indeed I’ve not posted here for ages. So I’ve decided to post some alternative lists for lockdown that I can look back on ‘after this is all over’ as the popular refrain goes. I’ll keep updating until the moment comes :
Apple Cake (with a stray pear added – was nice)
Lockdown bakes
4 apple cakes
2 batches of rocky road (purely in the name of researching my tiny play for Fly High Stories honest)
Scones
Chocolate cupcakes
Two loaves of white bread
A peach and blackberry crumble
2 mix ups of Shortbread
Naan Bread
Some foul Gingerbread because I used the wrong kind of flour
Madeira cake
Delicious butterscotch cookies
Chocolate Chip cookies
Saturday family movies
The Rise of Skywalker
Solo
Ghost Busters
Ghost Busters ll
Labyrinth
Bednobs and Broomsticks
Home Alone
Home Alone 2
ET
Honey I Shrunk the Kids
Malificent
Malificent 2
Jumanji (the 1995 original)
Easter Parade
Singing in the Rain
American in Paris
Summer Stock
Anchors Aweigh
Gigi
On The Town
For Me and my Gal
Cover Girl
The Pirate
Take me out to the Ball Game
Royal Wedding
Books what I’ve read
Red carpets and other Banana skins – Rupert Everett
The Vanished Years – Rupert Everett
Normal People – Sally Rooney
The Occasional Virgin – Hanan Al Shaykh
Gene Kelly A life of Dance and Dreams – Alvin Yudkoff
TV Shows
Cobra (didn’t finish – too close to the bone ATM)
Intelligence
Berlin Babylon (didn’t finish – too dark)
Unorthodox
State of Happiness (LOVED THIS)
Devs
Normal People
Grown up Movies
The Favourite
Marathon Man
The Conversation
Three days of the Condor
The Verdict
Chinatown
Virtual Plays
I want my hat back
Cypress Avenue
That’s not my hat
Barber Shop Chronicles
We found a Hat
Rich Kids – A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran
This blog will be updated periodically until that moment I can go to the theatre again…
