EDITOR’S LETTER / ISSUE 218 / OCTOBER 2016
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Never knowingly seen without his trademark neckware, Tom Morris poses in front of a suitably graff-daubed wall to promote his new show for Bristol Old Vic – see page 56
Show and tell Sometimes, in mid-summer, when the entire city seems to be sitting about in parks listening to bands and gazing up at balloons, it can be bit of a struggle to fill the listings section. You sift with growing desperation through emails, wondering if it’s too soon to mention a school Christmas production of Rocky Horror in Cleeve, or whether Ben Hur at Cineworld might have a local indie angle. Suddenly that Morris dancer’s convention in Wrington starts looking pretty good By the end of September, it’s the opposite problem; shoehorning all of Bristol’s shows and events into a few pages is a feat of camel-and-needle-eye proportions. That’s partly why this issue has such a big, chunky arts section; a bit like Aerosmith, we don’t want you to miss a thing. But we’ve still found room for a round-up of the best Sunday lunches and (a theme emerging here) a look at what to do with your weekday working lunch hour – along with all the usual fabulousness. Deri Robins, editor Twitter @BristolLifeMag Instagram:@bristollifemag