Entertainment

Motorshow 2009

An early Christmas pressie from our wives found Paul L and I down at the motorshow in Birmingham last weekend. Flew down on Friday midday and were at the show all afternoon, including the Top Gear Live show. All 3 dudes from Top Gear were there nattering away like they…

Festival at last

Other than an outdoor performance of Shakespeare’s ‘As you like it’ a couple of weeks back, my festival going has been a bit non existant this year… So today it was off to the Foodie Festival for some fine food – and meeting up with Nicci Kitchin before seeing brother…

New Star Trek Rocks!

After all the hype, the new Star Trek Movie was fantastic! Lived up to the hype and more. Wish I had seen it in America as there were several parts in the movie that I wanted to cheer or clap – seeing Enterprise for the first time, old Spock, the…

Gunshots ring out across Edinburgh

Well in the Edinburgh Festival Theatre as we watched Blood Brothers anyway… Didn’t have a clue what to expect – had heard of it but somehow avoided knowing the story until last night. Was tired after a long week at work and then a decent meal at B’est but the…

Yum

Struggling to find somewhere to pop in for a warming cup of hot chocolate and a snack lunch that wasn’t full of bored/irate/suicidal shopper on Saturday mid-afternoon we headed down Broughton Street. Ended up in a wee place called Pani Solinska that is a Polish (can’t you guess?) restaurant. Freshly…