Watched this gripping wartime noir by Powell & Pressburger

Late-autumn pastoral

Season of mists and mad-for-it Labrador

It had to be you… Watched the indelible Diane Keaton in Annie Hall

Fierce mild

I happen to like New York

Low cloud on the moors

Whatever happened to Natalie Prass? This, released in 2018, sounds like a classic now, and she hasn’t been heard from since… #NowPlaying #NataliePrass

Monarch of the dale #Rosedale

I have @jacquiwine.bsky.social to thank for recommending this astonishing novel by Dorothy B. Hughes: a gripping narrative about a man in the frame for murder that that is ultimately an indictment of America itself. If you haven’t read it, do – but don’t read any more about it before going in…

What a day for a walk to Andy Goldsworthy’s extraordinary Hanging Stones on the North York Moors #AndyGoldsworthy

Watched this beautifully made comedy about life after trauma. A remarkable debut by actor/director Eva Victor.

Wonderful to see Steve Gunn tonight (with James Elkington) at the magical Bandroom on the North York Moors

“Gentleness is kind of hard to come by in this world.” Three episodes in and greatly enjoying spending time with these characters…

Well this is a treat — Rónán Hession’s novel is as beguiling on screen as it is on the page www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

So so sad

“There's a lot to be said for making people laugh.” Watched this absolute classic.

At the arboretum #autumn

Jardin Audrey Hepburn #Bxl

Graveyard cat

Enjoying the last of summer

This is Alex Bowler. Not a man to mess with as (a) he’s very tall and (b) I’ve seen him unclip a Brompton in 25 seconds flat.

High-rise #Edinburgh

Tricky coves, writers (from Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym) #CurrentlyReading

“There’s no set list tonight; I’ve got a flowchart.” The inimitable Gruff Rhys, in fine form last night at York’s excellent Crescent community venue

High road/low road #Edinburgh

Rainy day on Leith Walk #Edinburgh

Lazy Sunday afternoon #Bxl

Where I'm calling from #Bxl

Brussels-bound, with this excellent black comedy for company

Swan, swan...

Ceci n’est pas un revolver #NowReading

They live by night #HedgehogNoir

“Julian’s vague distrust of publishers rapidly crystallised into a conviction that they exploited and misunderstood writers.” #NowReading

High summer

Viva Vini

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” #NowReading

Deep end

For the writer Elizabeth Taylor, #BornOnThisDay in 1912, my thoughts on ANGEL. A magnificent novel that charts Angel's rapid ascendancy as a writer of wildly popular but ludicrous romance novels & her gradual decline into obscurity. Simply superb! #BookSky jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2024/10/06/a...

Garden visitor

Looking up #Fitzrovia

Fitzrovia street view

On the up escalator, National Portrait Gallery

On the Broad Walk, Regent's Park

Rear window #Fitzrovia

In deepest Fitzrovia

At the Wallace #TheSouvenir

“Making movies is little like walking into a dark room. Some people stumble across furniture, others break their legs, but some of us see better in the dark than others.”—Billy Wilder, born OTD in 1906

So good to see this again – possibly my favourite Hitchcock movie about a tennis player who gets mixed up in murder