Monday, December 12, 2022

Jersey island

 In an earlier post (DVD of 2 April 2022) I had mentioned the old dvd series Bergerac which was very popular on BBC two decades ago. It was shot on the island and there were many shots of the ferry bringing passengers and locals to the island.

It all came alive in my mind last week but for the wrong reasons. There have been two instances of bomb blast and fire in Jersey in the last fortnight. The locale seen on television has not changed at all.

A clever, well-researched novel

 (March by Geraldine Brooks , Penguin, 31 January 2006, winner of the Pulitzer prize for literature for the same year) The novel deconstruct...