HJ FantaskisMy grandmother had depression. Part IOn 16 December 2016 we buried my paternal grandmother. I delivered the family’s eulogy to a drafty hall full of lined, sea-wind-blown…Nov 13, 2017Nov 13, 2017
HJ FantaskisAn epitaph for GrandmaA year ago, we buried my paternal grandmother. I gave the family eulogy at the ceremony, and I’ve spent the past year reflecting on her…Nov 13, 2017Nov 13, 2017
HJ FantaskisA eulogy for GrandmaOn 16 December 2016, we buried my paternal grandmother two days before her 87th birthday. I’d visited her two months before she died, and…Nov 12, 2017Nov 12, 2017
HJ FantaskisRunning late for a date“Can I help, at all? Would you like me to put these in the changing rooms while you’re still looking?”Nov 26, 2016Nov 26, 2016
HJ FantaskisThe boy from The InternetHe was a boy from The Internet. Or rather, a man from The Internet, with a full Stoke Newington beard, and the reassuringly all-black…Sep 23, 2016Sep 23, 2016
HJ Fantaskis[Re-post] On Nigella and Saatchi, domestic abuse and the media.This was first published in the days following Charles Saatchi allegedly grasping Nigella Lawson around the throat at Scotts in Mayfair, on…Nov 25, 2015Nov 25, 2015
HJ Fantaskis[Re-post] Why I didn’t laugh at Barry Humphries’ Farewell TourI’d seen Dame Edna’s hair fleetingly, and on my parents’ television. I was young, and this was before YouTube kicked off as a priceless…Sep 14, 2015Sep 14, 2015