Doctor Who is seriously back wow

Watched Terminator for the first time all the way through on Friday night. Probably an observation that's been made before but I keep thinking how much a Nativity narrative it is with Lt. Reece in the role of Gabriel/Joseph and Sarah Connor as the Virgin Mary

Anyone going to American Football or Khruangbin later on this year?

Click to read about the unlikely connection between Edith Wharton's 'The Age of Innocence' and David Graeber's 'Bullshit Jobs' >>flettcetera.com/2024/08/11/gen…

I will be running the Great Scottish Run half marathon on Sunday with some colleagues - if you like you can donate to our Just Giving page for Chris's House, which is a local suicide prevention charity that helps a lot of people in Glasgow and the West justgiving.com/page/digby-bro…

In which I take a close look at one of Guy de Maupassant's contes and share my thoughts on 'The Outrun' flettcetera.com/2024/10/06/the…

The Chancellor of the Exchequer:

Click to read about my (mostly) cycling trip to Mull and Iona: flettcetera.com/2024/10/20/the…

Read on if you are eager to learn my top 8 albums of 2024! This may or may not feature artists such as Charli XCX, Clairo, The Lemon Twigs, Magdelena Bay, MGMT, Ty Segall, Mount Kimbie and Nilüfer Yanya flettcetera.com/2024/12/22/mus…

This month the book group I organise is reading 'Poor Things' (my suggestion). I had different impressions on a second go, plus (in case you hadn't noticed) there's been a film since with prominent Glasgow erasure! flettcetera.com/2025/01/25/eva…

Good news for my small, family missile factory 👍

I read Nan Shepherd's 'The Living Mountain' for the first time this month. An enigmatic work that I knew I wanted to re-read as soon as I'd finished it. Wrote up some of my thoughts here: flettcetera.com/2025/03/16/ego…

Anyone doing anything tonight?

“Victor, you’re the monster!” Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein reviewed flettcetera.com/2025/11/09/vic…

An account of my recent trip to Islay and Jura: flettcetera.com/2025/11/30/fai…

What I enjoyed in music, literature and film this year: flettcetera.com/2025/12/29/cul…

Me every night when I lie in bed: