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Last night Stuart and I went to see Electra/Persona at the Lyttelton Theatre on London’s glitzy South Bank. A bare stage of wooden steps, heightened drama and enough anguish to power a small city. At times over-written and over-directed by Benedict Andrews, but Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss are utterly fabulous.
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@nationaltheatre #ElectraPersona #NationalTheatre #CateBlanchett #NinaHoss #LondonTheatre
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. But definitely don’t choose this.
This afternoon I went to see Trainspotting The Musical at @trh_london in London’s glitzy West End.
It’s a mess really. Despite the fun 1990s bangers.
Leads @andrewdyer__ and @laurensocha try super hard but country & western high kicks and heroin do not really mix well. Save your cash. Or get a freebie like many do if you’re at a loose end.
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#Theatre #London #WestEnd #Trainspotting @trh_london
Last Thursday night went to see A Month in the Country at @donmarwarehouse in London’s glitzy West End with Stuart. Sophie Okonedo and Patrick Gibson try so hard to make existential Russian yearning sexy. Truth is it is just two hours of posh folk sitting around wishing they were anywhere else. I felt exact the same way.
#AMonthInTheCountry #DonmarWarehouse #SophieOkonedo #PatrickGibson
Lovely to meet up with @gaygooners beforehand, then watch Arsenal do what champions do: win football matches without making life unnecessarily exciting. Saka tucked away Calafiori’s cutback, Villa hit the bar, VAR rescued itself from a penalty howler and Arsenal rather sensibly took all three points. Six points from two games.
Onwards and upwards, my friends.
@Arsenal @avfcofficial @BukayoSaka87
#AVLARS 🥅 #Arsenal #AstonVilla #COYG
Last night, Jane, Sara, Stuart and I went out for a spot of supper and a catch-up. We went to the superb Lupa in glitzy Highbury. Which was a first for us. We’d heard good things. It didn’t disappoint.
It’s a newish Italian restaurant owned by none of other than the one and only Theo James, hunky actor from White Lotus and The Gentlemen.
The food leans towards a Roman-style, & the menu’s laid out in classical Italian way (antipasti, followed by primi, then secondi & contorni).
There’s carbonara, & it’s done properly, strong with pecorino & guancale, no cream or bacon in sight. The bucatini was amazing too with a seismic sauce. And potatoes? Crisp-edged, rosemary-flecked, & exactly the kind of thing you end up fighting over.
For dessert, the tiramisu was divine.
Which, in many ways, is whole point of Lupa. It’s elegant without being showy, & quite cool without trying, & kind of the place you want to have in your neighbourhood. And yes, fine, it does happen to be backed by an actor whose jawline was recently declared Site of Natural Beauty.
But real star here is the food. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This year's annual foraging for sloes to make Highbury sloe gin was quite successful. Because of the hot summer they were perhaps a little bit smaller than usual and the harvest came earlier. But the crop was just as good.
Stuart and I took them home, washed off the yeast with warm water then cold water, dried them with a tea towel & popped them in the freezer overnight. That way when they defrost in the room temperature gin they burst a bit to let juices seep out.
This afternoon we put them into four airtight Kilner jars, topping up with gin & leaving in dark for three months for the sloes to infuse into gin. Then we add sugar to taste. Just ready for Christmas. Yum, yum.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
So for Darce’s birthday, we had a night in a hotel at Heathrow, flew to Zurich for the Lindt chocolate museum tour, then train to Paris for steak dinner, then Eurostar. 🏩✈️🍫🚞🥩🏨🚝
@darce_styles @darcestyles96
Pride is moving to the Bridge Theatre. Yay! Go see! https://www.bridgetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/pride
