First Impressions of Madrid

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Peter Moore

Two kisses. A hug, Welcome to Spain I arrived in Madrid sometime in the afternoon of 17 November 2004. The date is easily remembered as it was the day of a drab Spanish victory over the English in the Bernabéu. I filtered through the passport control point where a stern-eyed man in a coffee coloured [...]

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The Great Literary Sprint

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Peter Moore

10,000 words in 48 hours? The race to publish the first posthumous Jackson biography was relentless. ‘The perceived complexity of a task will expand to fill the time that you allot it.’ So goes Cecil Parkinson’s famous dictum. It’s a wise statement that explains why it can take Telefonica up to three weeks to install [...]

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Hemingway and Spain

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Peter Moore

For Whom the Bell Tolls to Death in the Afternoon, Spain was the setting for some of Ernest Hemingway’s finest writing. Here’s a snapshot of the writer’s association with Spain – one of the last good countries. —————- Ernest Hemingway, thick-set and accompanied by the first of his four wives, first arrived in Spain in [...]

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Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Peter Moore

Good films, getting better… Anyone able to cast their minds back to the year 2001 can only be impressed by the development of the Harry Potter franchise. Subsequent viewings of Christopher Columbus’ Harry Potter and Philosopher’s Stone reveal the first film to be shallow and uninspiring, starved of the intricacy of plot and depth of [...]

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