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Septimus, What Is Carnal Embrace?

THAT is one of the great first lines. I can’t get away from Stoppard it seems: we celebrated Mum’s birthday by going to see Arcadia. (I should also have remembered that the version of The Cherry Orchard which Dad and I saw at the Old Vic last summer was actually by Stoppard too). Et in [...]

VMAM

I’ve been MIA because life has been a lot more about the Very Much Alive Mum than the Dead Dad recently, and that’s exactly how he would have wanted it. The VMAM (sounds like a medical procedure, doesn’t it?) is in hospital recovering from surgery. Anyone who knows her will be unsurprised to learn that [...]