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Edinburgh City, Crescent House Hotel & Malmaison – Travel Review
By Clare Jenkins, May 2023 There are many different sides to Edinburgh. There’s the Royal Mile side, all bagpipers, kilts ... -
An Inspector Calls – Review – Sheffield Lyceum Theatre
By Clare Jenkins, May 2023 As accidents go, it didn’t lack symbolism. Halfway through the Lyceum’s first night of J. ... -
Home, I’m Darling – Review – Sheffield Lyceum Theatre
By Clare Jenkins, April 2023 Back in 1951, a decade before Betty Friedan’s ground-breaking feminist tract The Feminine Mystique, the ... -
Edinburgh By Sea: Leith, Fingal & Malmaison – Travel Review
By Clare Jenkins, April 2023 Who would have guessed that HM the Queen had such suburban tastes? Floral bedroom curtains, ... -
Dunwich, Southwold, Aldeburgh & Dingle Marsh Barns – A Suffolk Travel Review
By Clare Jenkins, March 2023 The Suffolk village of Dunwich features in a surprising number of stories about murder, ... -
Second City by Richard Vinen – Review
By Clare Jenkins The theatre critic Kenneth Tynan once described his home town of Birmingham as “the ugliest city in ... -
A Coach Trip to Scarborough and The Grand Hotel – Review
By Clare Jenkins, March 2023 Playwright Alan Ayckbourn once said of his adopted town of Scarborough, “In the winter, everyone ... -
The Great Gatsby [Northern Ballet] – Review – Sheffield Lyceum Theatre
By Clare Jenkins, March 2023 F. Scott Fitzgerald once reputedly complained to Ernest Hemingway, “The rich are different from you ... -
Seva: Sikh Wisdom for Living Well by Doing Good by Jasreen Mayal Khanna – Review
By Clare Jenkins This sounded so promising. According to the publisher’s blurb: “Think of any scene of disaster and you’ll ... -
Rutland Hall Hotel – Review
By Clare Jenkins, February 2023 From the front rooms of the Rutland Hall Hotel, you can see right across Rutland ... -
The Way Old Friends Do – Review – Sheffield Lyceum Theatre
By Clare Jenkins, March 2023 There’s an iconic scene in Mel Brooks’s film The Producers where Nazi-clad dancers perform ‘Springtime ... -
Great Northern Hotel, King’s Cross, London & Area – Review
By Clare Jenkins, January 2023 The railway artist Terence Cuneo would have loved the view from our window at the ...