Adolescence – a TV miniseries review

OMG! This latest Netflix British TV miniseries titled Adolescence is highly recommended, It is a gripping 4-part drama about a community coming to grips after a brutal teenage crime is committed by a 13-year-old schoolboy.

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My travel sketches from Europe May/June 2024

I managed to generate a few more pencil sketches during our last 6-week trip to Europe in May-June 2024. These sketches were done in my travel sketchbook which I carried with me. Although not an extensive collection, it served as an additional journaling medium for our travels, supplementing the photographs and Facebook posts that were the staple.

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Small Things Like These – a movie review

We were drawn to this Irish movie, Small Things Like These, mainly to see Cillian Murphy in his first movie role after his impressive Oscar-winning portrayal of J Robert Oppenheimer. After watching the first 15 minutes, it was clear this was a very different kind of movie; a slow burn, ponderous exploration of a man’s emotional struggle to come to terms with his discovery of disturbing secrets kept by the local convent as he reconciles them with the awkward truths about his own upbringing.

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