It’s been 12 years since the last new Star Trek television episode was aired so it is with much excitement that I got my Netflix free month offer underway only to watch Star Trek: Discovery which is no doubt what they hoped for. It must have been a difficult job to create a new Star… Continue reading Star Trek Discovery Review
Month: September 2017
How Star Trek revolutionised the modern world
Star Trek recently celebrated its 51st birthday and this week with the launch of Star Trek Discovery the mission to entertain and inspire continues with renewed vigor. The scientific inventions that we use on a daily basis inspired by WW2 generation writers inspired by visions of the 23rd century are well documented and growing. Communicators… Continue reading How Star Trek revolutionised the modern world
Dr Samuel Johnson, his dictionary and quotes
It is 308 years since the birth of Samuel Johnson, who wrote the English language’s most comprehensive dictionary in the 1750s. So this seems as good a time as any to express my utmost contrafibularities (see below) to the man himself. Johnson, born in 1709, spent nine years working on A Dictionary of the English… Continue reading Dr Samuel Johnson, his dictionary and quotes
Wilton’s Music Hall – Victorian London Comes To Life!
If you read my review of The Limehouse Golem earlier this week, you’ll remember how much of the plot revolves around a Victorian era music hall. Music Halls were once widespread around the entire country but eventually became all but extinct with the advent of cinema, television and modern day discos and clubs. However there… Continue reading Wilton’s Music Hall – Victorian London Comes To Life!
The Limehouse Golem – Film Review
I haven’t spent much time at the cinema this year, that is mostly because I have been so busy but also due to the proliferation of those dreadful in my opinion comic book movies which rather take over the big screen. It seems I’m not alone as attendances have been way down but in the… Continue reading The Limehouse Golem – Film Review
The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894.
As a species we can be a pretty gloomy bunch. Capable of brilliance but just as likely incapable of seeing almost the blinding obvious. These days we are seemingly doomed on a whole host of issues. Climate change, the break down of civil cohesion, over population, mass immigration on a biblical scale. Pollution, Brexit pretty… Continue reading The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894.
The lost and hidden rivers of London
It’s easy to see London as one big mega city with just one river, what Londoners fondly call old Father Thames. When the tide of the river rises and falls it is almost as if you can see the city itself breathe. The Thames has always been the centre for life in the city even if… Continue reading The lost and hidden rivers of London
Kate Middleton is having another baby. There, I’ve said it… I hate her!
It’s not often I write anything like my opinion on anything but today it has been announced that Kate Middleton is expecting her third child. Hurray! Good for the future 3rd in line sprog to the British throne. However, I really believe that it is irresponsible for people who live on social support to deliberately… Continue reading Kate Middleton is having another baby. There, I’ve said it… I hate her!
50 Top Grumbles From Working In An Office.
I don’t know about you but I used to hate working in an office. There is a big piece of me that thinks that the modern day existence offered by working in an office job isn’t really much if any better than in the 19th century when we were virtual slaves to tyrannical mill owners.… Continue reading 50 Top Grumbles From Working In An Office.
Stephen Liddell 