Darrel Bristow-Bovey

Are you talking to me now, or to Jesus Christ? It's hard to tell with your punctuation. You know who's good at punctuation? Jesse Singal.

Darren Scott’s Suitcase I don’t know if Darren Scott really did invent the Suitcase. I haven’t thought of Suitcases in a long time, but now that I have, they’re a whooshing Proustian flashback to Johannesburg and the medi…

Darren Scott died this week. Many legends attached themselves to him, but i know this one is true, because I was there.
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(I watched Ireland v Wales in the James Joyce, with the Irish ambassador to Athens scarfing down chicken wings at the next table, and thought of you. She didn't order a Guinness, which I thought poor diplomatic form.)

Ah, Jay! Hello, my good fellow! Greetings from an Athens where spring is just starting to bud. Yeh, Anora was fantastic - and the less you know about it, the better for the watch. I hope it's half as good on the small screen as it was with an audience.

Thrilled Anora won the Oscar. One of my best movie-going experiences last year was watching it in Deauville, with a full house of 1500 people roaring with laughter, Francis Ford Coppola in the next row, a French woman in the row in front of me, breathless with anxiety and shouting at the screen.

Not of White Lies as yet. I'm currently writing the first season of a different crime series, set in a small town on the coast.

Daily Delights 14 February 2025 (Friday) – Athens The bakery on the ground floor has filled its display windows with great big heart-shaped walnut cakes, iced all round in bright love-red or pure snowy whit…

They say that looking for delight makes you more likely to see it, more likely to live a life of delight. For the past several years of a very peripatetic life, I have been recording a delight a day, sometimes more: bristowbovey.com/daily-deligh...

It's a terrible poster for Flight Risk, so I'm not going to bother with it.

Favourite 10 movies watched in January:

The Apartment (1960)
Algiers (1938)
The Major and the Minor (1942)
Little Darlings (1980)
The Miracle of Morgan Creek (1945)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
The Happy Prince (2018)
The Thomas Crowne Affair (1968)
Flight Risk (2025)
Nosferatu (2024)

White Lies is recommended by the Sunday Times, which means I finally have some return on my Times subscription.

It's winter in Morocco.

Identity is weird! (I had English residency with every intention of qualifying, but after a few months I just knew it wasn't for me.)

Ireland will continue to be a good team for a while yet, but you do get the impression their golden age is just gently on the wane. It will happen to us all, one day.

Me too. And to this day, I still think a test against New Zealand isn't quite real unless I'm waking up at 4.30 to watch it.

Boks need to moer the English – in English! Staying calm when South Africa takes on England is like trying to appease a werewolf when there's a full moon.

My first post here! Let's try out the piece I wrote this week about werewolves and playing rugby against England.

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