Sunday Culture
Sunday Culture on a Monday….it’s time for some autumnal whimsy. My favourite season has arrived (premium TV, kidding, I mean autumn). The jackets are steadily being replaced with coats and wet leaves will undoubtedly be slipped upon.
What I‘ve been watching
Sharon Horgan has done it again- written a show that just perfectly and wittily encapsulates a particular time in a woman’s life cycle. I would watch her read out the phone book, to be honest, if such a thing still existed. This time round, she’s showcasing the sandwich generation as a 50 something divorced woman navigating getting older. Also featuring Rupert Friend inexplicably doing a (not terrible) Scottish accent, I am relieved to report this is pretty funny.
What I’ve been reading
The latest rental on my library audiobook app has been Maggie Farrell‘s new book ‘Land’. Set in 1865 rural Ireland, it follows a father and son conducting a mapping project for the British Ordnance Survey over a decade after the Irish famine. I’m not too far in to it but partly what drew me in was that it is set in an historical time period I only know the broad strokes of. Feels like a storytelling successor to Brian Friel’s ‘Translations’, based some 30 years later with a similar initial mapmaking as a story anchor premise. I could be wrong though…!
What I’ve been listening to
A dear friend did a beautiful thing this week and sent me a playlist they put together for me. 5+ hours of gorgeous music featuring some serious deep cuts. I had forgotten how much I adored the end song on All Saints’ 1997 debut album called ‘War of Nerves’ until it popped up. Turns out I still know every word and subtle harmony as it was wired in to my 12 year old brain even if I didn’t quite comprehend the profundity of the lyrics (‘stage fright in my own bed’). What. A. Gift.
May your week ahead be free of slippery wet leaves.
GRMA,
Deirdre x
