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Early taste of Christmas wine
8:34am Friday 28th November 2008
Next week is The Oxford Times Wine Club Christmas Tasting and, with just four weeks to go until Christmas Day, it is an excellent opportunity to sample a specially-selected range of wines for the festive season.
Comments (0)Historian with entertaining stories to tell
9:56am Thursday 27th November 2008
The 2nd Viscount Norwich rarely uses his title and when he wrote his first book under the name of John Julius Norwich, he received a furious letter from Nancy Mitford, one of the aristocratic Mitford sisters.
Four Christmases and Changeling
3:01pm Wednesday 26th November 2008
Rumours of an on-set feud between lead stars Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn hardly echo the tidings of comfort and joy espoused by Seth Gordon’s romantic comedy Four Christmases. "We've just got to get through these four Christmases as quickly and painlessly as possible,” grimaces Witherspoon's plucky heroine as she stares down the barrel of back-to-back celebrations with her divorced parents and the in-laws. By the end of the first act, we realise with mounting horror that director Gordon and his four screenwriters have no intention of granting her (and therefore us) that wish.
The Mole and Chicken, Easington, near Thame
3:10pm Wednesday 26th November 2008
One of the pictures on this page gives a good impression of the delights to be enjoyed at the Mole and Chicken on one of those sunny days that now seem as far as can be from our present situation.
Market stalls have Christmas covered
3:03pm Wednesday 26th November 2008
If you enter the Covered Market, Oxford from Market Street, you will be confronted by a dazzling array of fresh produce. Virtually every fruit and vegetable you could possibly need is on display, including massive bunches of coriander, oyster mushrooms, kiwi fruit and chestnuts.
Recipe for warm turkey salad with cranberry sauce dip
3:04pm Wednesday 26th November 2008
My task during the Covered Market’s pre-Christmas promotion demonstrations was to come up with some Christmas salads. This is one that I devised last Christmas when faced with turkey leftovers and far more cranberry sauce than I knew what to do with. It went down very well with those attending the demonstration. This dish makes a tasty starter or a simple snack.
Before the Rains, Año uña and The Silence of Lorna
3:00pm Wednesday 26th November 2008
Having impressed with The Terrorist (1999) and Asoka the Great (2001), cinematographer-turned-director Santosh Sivan makes his English-language debut with Before the Rains. Set in Kerala in southern India in 1937, the action centres on spice baron Linus Roache, as he tries to secure from banker John Standing the funding for a road that will enable him to expand his business. A committed colonialist, Roache plans to share his wealth with factotum Rahul Bose. But the project is endangered when Roache is spotted with his housemaid mistress Nandita Das and Bose has to devise an elaborate cover-up to maintain appearances with the locals and prevent memsahib Jennifer Ehle from learning the truth.
Dylan Moran: New Theatre, Oxford
2:55pm Wednesday 26th November 2008
‘I was the first person to discover that if you infected a person with Marmite, he would stand up and bark at the moon.” “Everybody under the age of 35 has the intelligence of raspberry jam.” “Children can hear vegetables hiding.”
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The Mole and Chicken, Easington, near Thame
One of the pictures on this page gives a good impression of the delights to be enjoyed at the Mole and Chicken on one of those sunny days that now seem as far as can be from our present situation.
Early taste of Christmas wine
Next week is The Oxford Times Wine Club Christmas Tasting and, with just four weeks to go until Christmas Day, it is an excellent opportunity to sample a specially-selected range of wines for the festive season.
Dylan Moran: New Theatre, Oxford
‘I was the first person to discover that if you infected a person with Marmite, he would stand up and bark at the moon.” “Everybody under the age of 35 has the intelligence of raspberry jam.” “Children can hear vegetables hiding.”
Sleeping Beauty, Chipping Norton Theatre
There’s nothing King Couer-de-Loup likes more than a good battle: “We’ll march on King Florizel’s wet and wicked army,” he proclaims. His Queen is not so sure, however. She would rather her husband stayed around: there’s the christening of their daughter Princess Aurora to arrange for a start. And he certainly can’t go out and fight looking like that: “Your chain mail’s got a ladder in it,” she wails.
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