I chuckle whenever people make solemn pronouncements on social media that they’re taking “a break” or “detoxing” or “going cold turkey” from — your guessed it — social media. There’s a very Puritan air to these declarations that rubs my natural idleness the wrong way. It’s always in the name of “getting more done” or…
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Review: The Berries
The Berries This hilarious play is set in the summer of 1974 amid the berry fields of Kirriemuir, and follows a day in the life of four Dundee ‘nabblers’ (pickers) as they toil and graft under the watchful eye of the no-nonsense foreman Rab. In order to distract themselves from the hard work, they enter…