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Another food orientated day. I took leftover dumplings and stew to a friend of mine before I went to Chester.  My friend has a son and ex partner on intensive care, both very poorly with covid.  It’s sobering to realise that things are not over for many where the pandemic is concerned . I then took myself to the Storyhouse for an afternoon at the cinema.  Long takes in film are not a new phenomenon. Film fans will easily remember those famous tracking shots in Goodfellas and the seminal Touch of Evil as well as those lengthy but somewhat theatrical takes in Hitchcock’s Rope but I can’t think of a film that has been totally shot and choreographed in one single take. Boiling Point is such a film.  Set inside a city restaurant we follow the fortunes ( and several misfortunes ) of the eclectic group of staff members led by a harassed and brittle senior Liverpudlian Chef ( Stephen Graham) who is trying to juggle, bad hygiene reviews, staff problems includin...

Nameless victim of The Black Death at Thornton Abbey, North Lincolnshire Another cheery blogpost for mid-January. With The Black Death in mind, let us go a-rambling once more but walking boots are unnecessary... In the 250 years between The Norman Conquest of England and The Black Death, many great abbeys were established. Populated by monks, they were not all about worshipping and serving God. They possessed huge swathes of  good farmland. In squeezing rents from tenanted farmers, the abbeys prospered.  The control that these Roman Catholic abbeys exercised was a legacy of the Norman invasion  which would later drive King Henry VIII to destroy them. They had a very good run. 450 years of enormous financial and political control as kings and queens looked on. I was born and grew up in a village called Leven - located right in the heart of The East Riding of Yorkshire. On the outskirts of our village was a stone pillar known as White Cross. It marked the original bou...

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