Jennifer Selway
ONE THING I’ve never understood about nightclubs is why you have to go to them so late. Arriving before 10 o’clock is for losers, but why? Is it some hangover from childhood – the idea that staying up really late is exciting and grown-up? Midnight feasts always seemed a good idea when you were a child too. But it soon dawned that waking yourself up to eat when you weren’t actually hungry wasn’t that much fun.
Now the Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac is to launch a new nightclub called Before Midnight on May 20 in London’s Islington Assembly Hall. It will open at 7pm and close at midnight, offering (as Annie says) “a chance for you to have all the fun, the euphoria and the wild abandon you need and STILL get a good night’s sleep”.
Sounds like a plan!
ST BLAISE town council in Cornwall has banned the planting of daffodils in a park because it is feared that children may eat them. A town clerk said that a recent directive “advised not to have daffodils in play areas as all parts of the daffodil can be poisonous”. Has anyone ever seen a child show any interest in eating a daffodil? No, I thought not. It’s hard enough getting them to eat broccoli.
THE “NO-FAULT” divorce became law last week thanks to the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act. I wonder how this will affect the upmarket firm of divorce lawyers Noble Hale Defoe that features in BBC’S drama The Split, which returned for a third series. Less income perhaps?
I do hope not, as all the characters have lavish lifestyles to maintain.
This is another of those dramas about middle-class life in which the homes and clothes are often more interesting than the plot.
And while I’m prepared to accept that – being lawyers – the Stern family could indeed afford that house with the swanky kitchen island,
I didn’t believe for a minute that the lowly middle-management types in ITV’S Our House could have aspired to that massive double-fronted mansion.
Covid is another thorny issue for dramatists. In The Split, writer Abi Morgan has chosen to ignore it completely. The Stern daughter has just returned from her gap year, the only teenager in the world to have one during the pandemic.
The offices of Noble Hale Defoe are still full of people. Nobody works from home. Nobody mentions Covid at all. It’s just like 2019 never ended.
Not that I mind really. Like many viewers, I suspect, I’m very happy to escape from reality and admire the kitchen fittings.