Category Archives: death

Lech Kaczynski dies in plane crash

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Charles Lambert

One dwarfish homophobe less in the world (calm down – I’m talking about the one on the left). Of the evil Polish ex-child stars, Lech is the straight twin; his even more repulsive brother, Jaroslav, is the one rumoured to … Continue reading →

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Take your partners

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Charles Lambert

The nearest I got to any seriously engaged reading during my three years at Cambridge was probably every Thursday when NME came out and, in the company of friends and a pinch or so of grass, we gathered in my … Continue reading →

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The finest dead

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Charles Lambert

Well, what an unsettling experience. Our last afternoon in Palermo and we found ourselves up near the Capuchin monastery, the one whose catacombs are filled with the dried and mummified remains of some of Palermo’s most important citizens. Originally, the … Continue reading →

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Smut or not smut

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Charles Lambert

An interesting post on the always interesting ReadySteadyBlog. As someone whose new book (note subtle plug) is being marketed as ‘part thriller, part love-story’ and in which there is both a murder and a mystery to be solved, I was … Continue reading →

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Thinking about death and contrast in Waltham

Posted on August 23, 2009 by Charles Lambert
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C’est si bon

Posted on December 27, 2008 by Charles Lambert

http://www.youtube.com/v/tQ5VaBgXzuM&hl=en&fs=1One of the great television moments of my childhood was watching Eartha Kitt being carried onto the stage of the London Palladium, slinkily curled up on a leopardskin-clad chaise longue borne on the shoulders of muscular men in loincloths, to … Continue reading →

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Seventeen years

Posted on December 18, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Earlier this year I wrote a brief post about a man called Giuliano Ferrara. Ferrara really isn’t that interesting, except as an over-exposed example of chronic brown-nosing that would take some beating even in Italy, and I wouldn’t bring him … Continue reading →

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Derek Brewer

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Charles Lambert

I see from today’s Independent that Derek Brewer died a couple of weeks ago, coincidentally on my birthday. He’s praised there for being a Chaucerian, as, of course, he was, pre-eminently, but my memories of him come from the summer … Continue reading →

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Paul Newman

Posted on September 27, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Paul Newman set the standard for me, in so many ways. I don’t know if it’s true that, after Butch Cassidy and The Sting, he wanted to do The Front Runner with Redford, with himself as the coach and Redford … Continue reading →

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Wanwood leafmeal

Posted on August 20, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Bushbury Crematorium and Cemetery are situated on a hill not far from the end of the 511 bus route, which is how we get there. We used to be able to see the hill from the top floor of our … Continue reading →

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