Yay-ness.  We just went and saw "The Golden Compass".  I'm feeling tired and sort of flaky, so I won't really review it.  Mostly, I enjoyed it and felt that they made excellent choices about who to cast.  Even the newbie playing Lyra was really very good.  Really, my only substantial complaint would be that they didn't give enough time to character ( Read more... )

It was a fun, but draining weekend.  Lauril came to visit for a couple days on her way down to Spain, so Kate and I took her around London on a whirl-wind tour.  We got a late start, so it was really, very fast and mostly pointing out important places.

We started out by getting lunch at a well-rated Sushi place in the Covent area.  It was really ( Read more... )

Which is why I ended up watching "Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties" this evening.  It was... cute.  Mostly a bunch of gags, but cute.  I wouldn't regret never seeing it, but I don't curse my time in the cinema.  And that's really all there is to say.  Well, except that the character of Liz (look down in the supporting characters section) was ( Read more... )

I got back into Norwich today. We didn't end up going to Bristol, but had a wonderful weekend in Slough (of all places).
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Thursday we went to Windsor Great Park and walked around taking pictures (starts with "Three Tree Colors" and goes to next page). It was my favorite kind of afternoon: wandering, climbing a tree, and enjoying the spring ( Read more... )

Manchester is very red. Lots of bricks, so very red. To anyone who's been to Manchester, I expect those are annoyingly obvious statements, but the color of the city just stuck with me ( Read more... )