“One for the road” is such a flippant, jovial expression, isn’t it? Something dads say at the pub. But I’ll never hear the expression in quite the same way again, having seen The Print Room and Young Vic’s co-production of Pinter’s brutal short play.
Miss York visits Keats House in Hampstead for an outdoor performance of Romantics by director James Veitch and the Pale Fire theatre company. We all know Miss York likes the rain; did she like the performance as well?
Miss York dons her vintage shoes and gallivants off to a celebrity soirée on the roof of The Trafalgar Hotel, much to the concern of her colleagues; would this be the downfall of our prim and proper princess?
Miss York is back with her sharpened pencil, musing late at night about words in our lexicon suffering the lash of society’s truculent tongue. To sleep, perchance to dream; ay, there’s the rub…
“Play it and be glad,” instructs the front cover of a miniscule booklet entitled Rules and Hints for Playing the National Game. Miss York explores a somewhat forgotten pastime with a very British characteristic. Sorry…
In this year’s first instalment of short fiction writing, Bridport Prize shortlisted author, Maddie York, weaves a darkly surreal tale about Scrabble, delusion, and a baby called Quo.
Train travel; romanticised by writers from Paul Theroux to Graham Greene, hailed by many as the most elegant form of long distance travel, allowing one to escape from the foibles of the modern world. Or so we like to think…
Groan. It’s that time of year again, when we young, sprightly females are supposed to…
Just because something is done a certain way, and has been ever thus, doesn’t necessarily…
Two Ladies in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Bugs): Miss York never thought she would sit in a canoe, let alone row one. But with no other mode of transport to get across Lake Bled to the island church, she found herself sticking her oar in.
It’s that time again. The elegant Miss York gives us a lesson in words, their place, and the hilarious dangling clause. Please open your notebooks, have your pencils at the ready, and you there at the back, stop that whispering!
Turn left. Exit here. Place your bags in the bagging area. Do not leave your baggage unattended. Keep away from the platform. Mind the gap. Do we really need to be told all of this? Maddie doesn’t think so; must be a sign of the times…