Our Entertainment Blog

  On 19 December 2025, one of the kindest and most beautiful spirits left far too soon. Lorraine Cheshire was not only an absolutely first class actor, she was the best person to have on your side.  I began my blogging career in 2013 and focused on theatre for much of it, particularly at the beginning. However as my love of TV is as great as my love for the stage , it wasn't long until I ventured into telly reviews and started to interview a number of stars of the small screen.  My son was still very young when I expanded the blog . I distinctly recall taking him to a baby swim session with my fellow mom pal and her little one and the conversation of new TV shows cropping up over a cup of cold tea and half eaten sandwich post-swim. She asked me if I had watched the BBC series ' In The Club '. It was apt viewing as it was basically about new moms, midwives, pregnancy - all of which we had lived through over the past however many months and were still living through....

Birmingham undoubtedly has the best orchestra in my humble opinion and the chance to watch our local internationally acclaimed orchestra is an opportunity not to be passed up. Add Conductor Stephen Bell with soloists; Katie Birtill and Tim Howar and you know you're in for a magical evening at Symphony Hall .  The acoustics in Symphony Hall are tough to rival, the sound produced by the CBSO on Friday evening was nothing short of sublime. It was the perfect antidote to a wet, miserable and (seemingly) everlasting January! We literally felt able to leave our troubles in the car park and thoroughly enjoyed sitting back and basking in the glorious music, whether purely instrumental or accompanied by one or indeed both of the phenomenal vocalists.  It will come as no surprise that we are huge fans of music from stage and screen and there was nothing that we didn't like the look or sound of in the well chosen selection. The theme from the movie, Ladies in Lavender ,...

  The past... I'm not one to dwell on the past if I've moved on from it, however - for the purposes of this introduction to our brand new blog (pause for squeals... combined with the furrowed brow of a woman in her forties who, despite her love for telly and theatre , wholly expected to have left this kinda career behind), I'll fill in some back story!  First of all, I say OUR new blog ( Our Entertainment Blog ), as this reinvented venture has for the most part, been led by our 12 year old son, Connor . I've not been entirely unwilling and my husband, Garry , who will undoubtedly be involved again, is also not saying no. One thing's for sure, following the pandemic we haven't watched anywhere near enough live theatre and the frequent excursions from the Midlands to London (often in one day), which baby and toddler Connor was regularly dragged along on, are currently a thing of the past. In fact, rather like this blog , Connor is keen to bring t...