#live music #london #Jazz cafe #reviews #musicLedisi Jan 2019 Jazz CafeUpside Down, Natural Woman, Think of you, they were all in attendance at the opening show. Ledisi did not disappoint her fans in this long awaited return to London
Parsnip CrispsI’m preparing for the start of a new month, a new year in fact. I foolishly made a pact with a cousin of mine that we’d start the new year eating only a plant-based diet. It was folly! I should have made a less drastic pact but alas I was being blasé about my ability to keep to a strict regime for a month. It is what it is. ...
#Spike Lee #John David Washington #KKK #filmBlackkklansmanAn audience stunned into silence at the end of Spike Lee’s latest epic Blackkklansman is perhaps testament to how little race relations in the USA have moved on in the past 50 years. Read my review of this dark comedic masterpiece.
#blackness #identityEveryone Is BlackIt’s not often you see your own emotions aired but the similarity in Afua Hirsch’s Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging, to my own experience as an African Caribbean Brit, returning to the land of my parents birth was striking
#streaming #tv #netflix #reviewsNappily Ever AfterIt had promise, the trailer is hysterical. but did the Netflix telling of this Trisha R. Thomas tale live up to the billing? Read my review to find out
#teams #workplace #peopleStranger DangerAt the best of times, I as cordial as the rest, but the last couple of new people had been a bloody nightmare. I wasn’t looking forward to meeting the new man who’d be sitting next to me for the next three months
#NaNoWriMo #word countO M G It Is NanowrimoIt’s November and NaNoWriMo is with us again. So can this year’s effort at this creative writing content succeed where other’s have failed to hit the mark?
#Open Air Theatre #London #musical #opera #reviews #theatreJesus Christ Superstar 2016On a delightfully warm, sunny August afternoon, four cousins skip work, to celebrate a birthday, sip prosecco, and watch the revival of Jesus Christ Superstar in a park in the middle of London
#Open Air Theatre #London #Gershwin #theatrePorgy and BessIt’s preview week, the evening is balmy, a couple of hours spent in the company of the good people of Catfish Row awaits. Summertime at the Open Air Theatre, it’s here again, lets go!
#inspiration #designInspiration Comes in Many FormsI like this image supposedly from a Mercedes Benz advert. I don’t remember the ad, I saw this image first on a HD wallpaper website. It’s a marvellous visual feast of colour exploding on the right hand side and simplicity and control on the left. It appeals because it is two sides that every one has (obviously) and we should remember that regardless of what anyone else says, we are all humans and by nature complex beings. ...