RANDOM JOTTINGS

A blog about music, sports, theatre and rants

Long time blogger just moved to wordpress. Love music, theatre, movies, sport (tennis and cricket) and cooking. Two great daughters, two great granddaughters.

Category: Chips Channon

  • 2021 Reading – Part Two and Book of the Year

    As I mentioned in my earlier post on 2021 reading my non-fiction this year has been pretty low as I have sought reading matter that has not tested the little grey cells to any extent. Just getting by was my mantra over the last twelve months. But though they may be few, I have enjoyed…

  • Reading pleasures lined up

    Just a quick post today as I am hitting the North Circular in an hour or two and joining up with the Other Grandparents to look after the girls over the weekend.   I always take a book with me, force of habit, but never have a chance to open it. Not complaining though. Time with…

  • The Diaries of Chips Channon – edited by Simon Heffer

    Being a diarist is a dangerous thing to be. If a  novelist you can hide behind your characters and assume ideas and thoughts that are purely fictitious. But when you write a diary no matter how hard you try the real you creeps into the narrative. There is no getting away with it. To be…