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Have A Vin-Tastic Day
Today is Beaujolais Nouveau Day. It’s a day when the wine makers of the Beaujolais region in France would like you to sample their latest…
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A Beacon Of Convenience
Before Mrs Proclaims and I moved to Reading, we spend a year living in an overpriced flat in High Wycombe. High Wycombe is in Buckinghamshire,…
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Not NaNoWriMo – Part 6
If I were taking part in NaNoWriMo, I’d almost certainly be on track with my word count and winging my way towards a commercial and…
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My Kind Of Day
Today is ‘World Kindness Day’. It’s also ‘Kindness Day UK’. It’s something of a coincidence that both events seem to be happening on the same…
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A Short, Inadequate Post About Remembrance
Today is Remembrance Sunday, the nearest Sunday to Armistice Day, which was yesterday. Up and down the country, and indeed all over the world, there…
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Artificial Armistice Anger
Today is the 11th November or Armistice day. It’s 99 years since the end of the First World War – at the time regarded as…
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1995’s Jumanji is an interesting concept (interesting enough to spawn spin offs and reboots in more recent times) but the movie itself feels a bit generic. Perhaps…
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1998’s The Waterboy is the kind of juvenile comedy you tend to associate with Adam Sandler. Which is maybe unfair to Adam Sandler because he has, in…
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As with most Wes Anderson films, I didn’t really like 2009’s Fantastic Mr Fox when I first saw it, but I have come to appreciate it more…
