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Thursday, 22nd October (Cambridge)
Mica Levi, Sandra Hüller, Jonathan Glazer, Christian Friedel and Łukasz Żal at the press conference for The Zone of Interest, Cannes Film Festival, 20 May 2023. Canal 22, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 1. We’ve seen two films in … Continue reading
Tuesday, 20th October (Cambridge)
Anish Kapoor, Ha Makom (2026), installation view, Hayward Gallery, London. © Anish Kapoor. All rights reserved, DACS, 2026. Photo: Roy Cross 1. We went to see the Anish Kapoor show at the Hayward Gallery on Saturday and we now know … Continue reading
Tuesday, 13th October (Cambridge)
Books destined for Cameroon: more info at item 3 below! © Harry Kuchah Kuchah 1. SHORT NOTICE! There’s an IH London webinar with Florencia Giudici at 16:30 UK time this Wednesday, 14th October, Engaging teens through Authentic Audiovisual Materials. You’ll … Continue reading
Thursday, 8th October (Cambridge)
The ‘Seventy Up’ programme I mention below that we watched recently reminded me that the participants in the series are my exact contemporaries. This is a photo of me aged seven grinning out from the brick setting of the asbestos-lined … Continue reading
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Tuesday, 6th October (Cambridge)
Not a great photo but one which brings back memories which were prompted by the Simon Borg piece on Iraq below: our house and car in Baghdad, where we spent a hugely rewarding year from September 1989, our posting curtailed … Continue reading
Thursday, 1st October (Cambridge)
Also fifty years ago, at much the same time as my first visit to The Queen’s Head, we were soundly thrashed on ‘University Challenge’ by the University of Hull – who’d been practising their buzzer technique and, unlike any of … Continue reading
Tuesday, 29th September (Cambridge)
The closest thing we have to ‘a local’, The Queen’s Head in Newton, which we visited at the weekend, and which I first visited fifty years ago when the landlord was the grandfather of the current landlord. The Adnams bitter … Continue reading
Thursday, 24th September (Cambridge)
The story behind today’s picture? I always smile when I pass this umbrella shop on New Oxford Street at which we bought two expensive umbrellas at least thirty years ago. I had the temerity to enquire about a guarantee. The … Continue reading
Tuesday, 22nd September (Cambridge)
1. I’ve just come out of a webinar with Chris Sowton on his ‘personal passion project’ that I featured back in June, Teach Any Class, even more convinced that it’s a great idea and resource https://teachanyclass.org/ The site’s motto comes … Continue reading
Thursday, 17th September (Cambridge)
Blog version: https://roycross.blog/ Back home in Cambridge at last! Today’s photo is of the sculpture in the roll call square (Appellplatz) at Dachau Concentration Camp, which we visited for the first time on the way home, despite having lived just … Continue reading
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