Bethany Elliott
@bethanyaelliott
Words in Unherd, Guardian, Politico, New Statesman, The Spectator, New Humanist, The Fence, The Critic, The Daily Mash, Jamestown Foundation. Usually about Russia-Ukraine. Voice/face on BBC radio/TV and Times Radio.
Very generous of these people to donate drinks for the rest of us during the interval. Liked them putting names on labels so we knew who’d donated. I got in early so managed to nab a bottle of bollinger from someone named Tony.
Swan Lake at the Coliseum. I always choose a seat at the front of a box there as it’s the only way I can guarantee seeing and, when I walked into the box for The Nutcracker 2 days before Xmas, all the others were an extended family who fell silent & shuffled away. ”Now it feels like Xmas” I thought.
It’s a tough final choice between Harold and Maude, The Apartment and Ghost World BUT
Out for walk. Went past TS Eliot’s flat where he died, Kensington Court Gardens. He left a sum of money in his will so that his widow would have flowers delivered every Sunday until her own passing.
Flicking through channels to calm down post-football and you’re telling me there’s a tv show with Roger Allam, where he’s a police officer, in tailored suits, and no one told me?!
“Dearest mother, we are having a lovely time in America, hope you like this postcard, love to baby Jeanette…” #engarg #englandargentina
It will always be funny to me that critics couldn’t agree on one view about it.
“You were working as a Director of Public Prosecutions When I met you I picked you out, I shook up and turned you around Turned you into someone new…”
“Friends fear she’s about to be weird about Roger Allam on social media again”
That’s… a crime? What, like felony whimsy? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The fella with the tuba is quite good. Munich Cricket Club, Westminster
Maison Assouline. They’ve got the end words of Larkin’s High Windows but not the opening lines, cowards.