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Over the course of lockdown we vastly elevated our cooking game (covered in an earlier post), and proceeded to cook 98 consecutive dinners and lunches from the Marcus Wareing cookbooks, which probably also explains why we packed on about 20 kg during lockdown. We’ve also saved loads of recipes from our various dalliances with meal…
The challenge I mainly had with this – following reading Bob’s autobiography – was being able to prevent myself picturing Bob as the lead character. It even lends you to wonder how much of the material is “true story inspired” given Bob’s history as a solicitor in South London. An amusing diversion.
Another riveting walk through legal cases from Geoffrey Robertson QC, selectively illustrating how to be a barrister is to play the game of justice. Endlessly entertaining and painstakingly erudite (as you’d hope, for someone in his role), he contrasts the cases he’s been called into, illustrates the machinery of justice (for example the Privy Council,…
Anything written by Bob Mortimer at this point is going to be worth reading, and given lots of leeway critically due to him being an endearing National Treasure and all-round legend. His recent health scare prompted the penning of this memoir, which jumps back and forth between modern day and childhood, with both being the…
Biopic story of the genre-defying 90s art/comedy movement known as Cluub Zarathustra, following its live beginnings and journey through TV Land and beyond. Fun to come to love a gaggle of disparate comics in the 2010s and then learn years later that most of them were a gaggle of misfits in this, led by the…