Just watched "Faintheart" Bloody brilliant! If you've ever hung around with re-enactors, this is a very very funny movie. If you've ever tried to juggle Real Life(TM) with re-enactment (or whatever flavour), then it's also slightly painful. If you have kids, expect to cringe.

Funniest line: "I used to be one."

I have a living room and a kitchen. I have quite a bit more of a sewing room (including a window frame - woot!) and also more of a bedroom. We have half a downstairs bathroom and ooh, 75% of a downstairs hall. The girls have a bedroom each. I have half a floor in the spar'oom, and about four loads of laundry done ( Read more... )

Just watched "Downfall". While I thoroughly recommend it, I can't say I enjoyed it.

gah. just what I need for the insomnia.

Been to see Percy Jackson with ElderM this afternoon. I was quite looking forward to it. I read the book and could see the film - it was visually written and very clear on the action and plot; sure, a couple of things would have to be condensed to fit it all in, but not much. A perfect movie book in other words ( Read more... )

We watched another of those little movies tonight; "Last Orders"

I do like them. British understated movies, with fantastic actors taking a fairly unremarkable story and making it profound, just with their care and attention to detail.  "Mrs Palfrey at the Clairemont" is another, even "Ladies in Lavender" (again, Helen Mirren). It doesn't have to ( Read more... )

So, for those who don't know, I like food. I like cooking food, eating food. I even like movies about food. So far, I've racked up the following ones I like:
Eat drink man woman - Ang Lee superb, even in Chinese
Tortilla soup - It's the same movie, sort of, still Ang Lee, but Mexican. Sort of.
Woman on top - Now, there's a surprising one. Penelope ( Read more... )

Sometimes you wish you could share some of the good stuff of your culture with your friends. But you can't, because someone is being stupid about subtitles.

"Rejseholdet" is a fantastic TV-series produced by Danish TV. It won an Emmy for best drama in 2002! Yes, American Emmy. You can buy the whole box set, all 32 amazing episodes of it. But do you ( Read more... )

I've had a nice day playing with colour and my garden.

I am getting a pair of boots, based on a type found at Boringholm. Another pair from Helgeandsholmen were apparently red, and that appeals to me. I've not been able to find anything concrete on how to use madder to dye/stain leather, so extrapolating and playing around I've been making a ( Read more... )

The girls and I watched the old Anne of Green Gables last night. We finished close to ten o'clock. Didn't stop YoungerM from getting up at seven though. I got out of bed at eight, much to Polo's disgust. He was out gallivanting until midnight last night, and probably would have liked a much later morning. We're going to have to keep him in at night ( Read more... )

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