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Chloe Fairbairns
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Anaesthetist in the NHS. Board member Association of Anaesthetists. Fan of bikes, trains, good food and knitting in teams meetings. Opinions are mine, of course.
The Salt Path. Our household is a bit in love with both Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs. Beautifully shot story of a couple who lose everything and find themselves homeless and set out to walk the South West Coast Path. Anderson in particular is amazing - resigned, heartbroken, determined.
June 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Bank holiday cinema trip to see The Phoenician Scheme. Extremely Wes Anderson film by Wes Anderson. Thoroughly enjoyed everything about it. Help yourself to a hand grenade.
June 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Bit of a backlog. Trip in May to the Harold Pinter Theatre to see Giant. Really enjoyed this exploration of when criticism of Israel becomes anti-semitism. Thanks to @naomialderman.bsky.social for posting about it’s return as I’d missed the first run.
June 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Another bank holiday weekend trip to the cinema, this time to see Alex Garland/Ray Mendoza’s Warfare. Considering it is told entirely from the point of view of the soldiers I felt it very successfully conveyed the utter disastrous folly of the second Iraq war. Very gory (accurately so).
May 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
KULCHA thread continued (from here) bsky.app/profile/gasb...

Trip to the cinema to see Sinners. The racial politics of vampires: discuss. Could have done with a script editor but it was cracking fun, music editing was fantastic and of course marvellous costume design.
May 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Trip to York on a gloriously sunny day to see Gary Oldman in Krapp’s Last Tape. Beckett plays are not exactly cheery are they? Also the A19 is full of absolute arsehole drivers.
May 3, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Another trip to Middlesbrough Town Hall for a farewell concert - musical director John Forsyth has retired. Cleveland Philharmonic Choir for Ritter’s Magnificat, Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music and Mozart’s Requiem. Brilliant night with fantastic performances.
April 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Surprise (because I forgot we had tickets) midweek night out - Northern Sinfonia at Middlesbrough Town Hall. Beethoven, Dvorak and a premier by a bloke who’s name I’ve forgotten already.
April 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Black Bag: I expected a stylish spy thriller which is what I got. I didn’t expect it to be so funny? Also their house looks like they won it in an Omaze prize draw.
March 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Alto Knights: Enjoyable if formulaic De Niro vehicle about mid-century Mafia shenanigans. Wardrobe design deserves special mention, even the changing fashions in ties are observed. As is always the way with films about the Mafia, the food looks magnificent.
March 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
March 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I watched Parasite in a nearly empty cinema just before lockdown. Bong Joon-Ho’s latest feels like a hugely topical satire on American politics and evangelical religion as well as being a cracking sci-fi. Naomi Ackie and Robert Pattinson are both fantastic. Go and see it immediately.
March 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Brief interlude to recommend the tiny bookshop that also serves coffee in the basement level of Leeds Corn Exchange. A “curated collection” of mainly women writers.
March 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
A Real Pain. I loved this film, it’s so gentle and profoundly moving. Kieran Culkin is amazing. I also needed a pee for most of it enabling me to empathise with the profound discomfort of having to travel with such an annoying lovable relative.
February 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
More from Sint Jans Hospitaal. There was absolutely no explanation which made it even odder.
February 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Trip to Bruges and the €33 unlimited museum access ticket is a bargain. Enjoyed Closer to Memling at Sint Jans Hospitaal, even if all the women have the same face.
February 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
January 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Well…
January 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Ed Byrne- Tragedy Plus Time. Highly recommended if you want to be put through an emotional wringer while laughing til your giblets fall out
January 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Birdsong at Newcastle Theatre Royal. Forgot a hankie so my scarf is a bit tear stained now.
January 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Fabricated - Caron Garfen’s astonishing and intimate exhibition of her work on the Holocaust and contemporary anti-semitism. Massive thanks to her for her time and generosity in sharing it.
January 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Nosferatu was Notsogood-u
January 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
NHS productivity could go up…just saying
December 26, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Do you think she knew what I was having for dinner?
December 25, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Hansel’s Messiah at Middlesbrough Town Hall. Solid banger from start to finish.
December 14, 2024 at 7:36 PM