Nick Jordan

I’m off work this week, so I’ve been spending some of my time wandering around museums. I attended a very good gallery walk at the British Museum yesterday afternoon called Six Feet Under: Some Thoughts on Burial in Early Britain, which was just great. It was a fairly loosely structured discussion of some of the burial practices of pre- and post-Roman Britain, periods of history in which I’m particularly interested. I highly recommend attending some of these gallery walks if you’re able to. Not only are they very informative, but they’re also free. What more could you ask?

I went to see Stardust yesterday afternoon. Now, I’m a huge Neil Gaiman fan, so I’d already read and enjoyed the book and was a bit worried about whether the film would be able to live up to it. I needn’t have been concerned - it’s an absolute joy. It contains nothing deep, it’s not going to change your life or anything, but it will entertain and amuse you, and that’s just fine. The casting is excellent, the special effects everything you would expect from a modern work, and the film maintains a wonderful sense of magic, of detachment from reality. I’m not going to spoil it for you if you haven’t seen it, so I won’t say much more except that I heartily recommend it and I’ll be buying the DVD when it’s available.