Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Humanity, Moments, Movies, Music and Dance, News, Politics, Reading on June 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I love movies. I don’t do TV, not much. I enjoy political shows, comedies and nature programmes but I have zero tolerance for stuff like reality TV, tiresome soaps and those live chat shows where Average Joe goes on TV and exposes all his private business to the world. I have to confess though that for the first time [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Moments, Movies, Music and Dance, Offload on June 7, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Sheesh guys! I go away for a while to get ready for the reunion today and this place turns into ghost land. The only hits I’m getting are generated from that new automatically-generated thingy that WordPress added recently. Even the spammers have lost interest.
Anyway, to bring you up-to-date and make sure you haven’t forgotten me, [...]
Posted in Mother Earth, Movies, News, Reading on March 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Preview is a Christian website that reviews films for Christian would-be movie goers in order to give them some guidance, in a Christian context, as to the suitability of movies. It gives each film a morality rating and informs people of anything that might be offensive to their religious beliefs. I dare say it probably also weeds out any messages that [...]
Posted in Family, Humanity, Moments, Movies, News, Offload, Politics on February 29, 2008 | 10 Comments »
#As much as I despise myself for giving any time and head-space to the Prince-Harry-in-Afghanistan non-issue, sometimes my big mouth won’t keep shut. So here goes. He’s been fighting against an enemy combatant. Well yes, that’s what soldiers in the army do. And the military bosses are saying they’re not happy about this news breaking out, not least [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Moments, Movies on February 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I could go on and on about this film. I could make many emotional references using words like values, beliefs, true nature, moving, heartwarming, funny, touching, yearnful. I could tell you about how I fell in love with the family, the children, the country, the life . . .
But because the film is so unobtrusive and modest, I’ll spare [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Moments, Movies on January 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Titanic: You’d think that after watching this epic movie three times, I’d be prepared for the ending and would not resort to sniffing and sobbing like a baby. Nope. I watched Jack and Rose become reunited on the ship for the fourth time and still I wept.
My middlie loves this film too and knows the song word-for-word [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Moments, Movies, Reading on December 20, 2007 | 9 Comments »
I have been noting that some bloggers have been sharing their Best Of lists - or their Christmas Faves. If there’s one thing I do enjoy, it’s reading or watching those Top 100 lists and end-of-year reviews.
Well seeing as I can’t find the inspiration to write anything of notable worth . . . and such is [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Moments, Mother Earth, Movies on October 29, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Well, just as the title suggests, I’ve been pretty idle this weekend. Yesterday we visited one of the country’s loveliest of lovely beauty spots - Bolton Abbey. My kids love this place. They especially look forward to seeing the money trees. You can see my two leaning over one of them in the photo there. [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Moments, Movies on October 23, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Today me laddy is eight-years-old and so we will be busy with visitors, parties, toys, pressies, messy stuff, and so on. Gosh! I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since I wrote this birthday post. This morning I still obssessed about the wrapping paper. Needless to say, it’s not fit for re-use so it’s all bagged [...]
Posted in Humanity, Moments, Movies on September 10, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Spoiler ahead. I watched a film the other night which was recommended to me by dear Little Indian and lovely Helen called The Grave of the Fireflies, also known as Hotaru no haka. Well they said I’d like it but they didn’t warn me just how much I’d cry! And boy did I cry!
The film [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Moments, Movies on August 25, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Well here’s a British character who needs no introduction - Mr. Bean. A very odd mysfunctioning character of whom it would be hard to pin down a particular syndrome to in real life. They say that you either love him or you hate him. I think many people want to not like him and when they see [...]
Posted in Family, Movies on August 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Earlier this week, after much urging, pleading and begging, I took the children to see Transformers the movie. Now some of you twenty-something males will remember the original animated series of Transformers -cartoons based on a Japanese toy. But for those of you who haven’t a clue, click here. You can even watch some episodes here courtesy of You [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Moments, Mother Earth, Movies, News on July 2, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Gordon brown’s wife, Sarah, is receiving much admiration from the press for her demure and dignified presence. She’s already perfectly playing up to the role of doting, quiet wife-in-the-background. But there’s bugger-all submissive and wallflowery about someone who headed one of the most powerful PR agencies in Britain. Don’t be fooled. She’s one sharp and shrewd tough cookie.
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Do you know? Some people pay other people to [...]
Posted in Family, Movies on May 31, 2007 | No Comments »
Went to the cinema yesterday and I’m rather tempted to become a movie cabbage because there are some really good films coming up this Summer.
The next Harry Potter film looks spectacular and although I’m not a huge fan, I might make the effort for this one.
Then there’s a sweet little film called Wedding Daze which looks like [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Moments, Movies on April 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I love Nouvelle Vague.
The video is from the movie Bande a part directed by Jean-Luc Godard and you can watch/listen to the original music here. T’is just as enjoyable.
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