2016 Highlights

It's been a stinker of a year, there are no two ways about it, but I'm sure you figured that one out for yourself, when you noticed that I fell silent. I lost my darling dog, I fractured my foot, and work was abysmal, and that's putting it mildly. While calm, the word I bestowed upon 2016 in the dying throes of the previous year, served me very well indeed, it is joy that I am craving next. I can only hope that 2017 will deliver. ____________________ Movies watched at the cinema: 42 [last year's 78 seems like a very distant best...] Some of the best: Spotlight, The Danish Girl, Bridget Jones's Baby, Florence Foster Jenkins, A Bigger Splash, Nocturnal Animals, The Big Short, The Girl on The Train, Finding Dory The worst: High-Rise The most over-rated: The Revenant Books I bought: 95 Best home video addiction : Smallville Best fiction : The Henry Experiment, The Santa Klaus Murder Best non-fiction : Georgia O'Keeffe, Art as Therapy Best exhibition : Sunken Cities at The British Museum Favourite bookshop : Foyles Best art bookshop : Royal Academy of Arts Best charity bookshop : very slim pickings this year, nobody wins Best online bookshop : The Book People, same as last year and the one before and the one before then Best art event : Lorenzo Quinn at The Halcyon Gallery Number of significant writing endeavours started : 2 Holidays taken : 0 Most unexpected encounter : Mark Ruffalo at Claridge's Most... Read more →