One word to sum up this week: AMAZEBALLS
My training course in the Lake District was absolutely fantastic. It was incredibly intense, including travel time, it was four 12 hour days. I could cope with the concentration, just not so much the full on being with people. Spending 12 hours a day with my friends? Fine, but even then I start to crave my own space. Spending 12 hours a day with colleagues? With colleagues I barely knew? By the end of the four days I just couldn't wait to, well do what I did this weekend, hide away from people in my flat and do very little. But all of that, all of that was completely worth it for what we actually did. I canoed across Lake Windermere. Let me say that again: I CANOED ACROSS LAKE WINDERMERE. I'm not entirely sure why I'm quite so proud of this but I am. It was something I really wanted to try and I did it. I think the reason I'm so proud is that I did good at physical activity. I can never do good at physical activity. The really active guy, the one who did climbing and had been canoeing before, was impressed and surprised that I hadn't canoed before. I kept up with the guys and canoed every stroke. *shrug* Also I really enjoyed it. Out on the water, in the sun. It was lovely. I also climbed a hill in the morning. We were above the clouds and looked down at the lake in the valley. There were other challenges, but they're rather harder to explain. Lots of team building, lots of problem solving. And the best bit of it. We got paid to do it. Standing on a hill, looking at this beautiful country that I live in, the sun shining down on me, and I got paid for it.
Anyway, now on to my next Love Film review.
Glorious 39 (2009)
This was a David Tennant film. I was surprised in the first instance that it was a period drama where David Tennant was allowed to be Scottish. Posh Scottish (they don't sound like us ), but Scottish, nonetheless. I must admit to being a tiny bit disappointed (I enjoy his Upper Class Twit accent), but then he said "doom" and I was happy. And he wore a tux. And I was very happy. He was only in the first 20 minutes at most. I wouldn't have expected that from the DVD cover. However, Glorious 39 was a very good good film. It was rather a head fucky film, a, and I hate to fall in to "film review language", but it was a "taught thriller". One of those films that is just ever so slightly unsettling because you share the character's disorientation. Despite being absolutely nothing like it, plotwise, it reminded me an awful lot of Donnie Darko. The viewing experience was very similar. A good film, a very good film.
Anyway, now on to my next Love Film review.
Glorious 39 (2009)
This was a David Tennant film. I was surprised in the first instance that it was a period drama where David Tennant was allowed to be Scottish. Posh Scottish (they don't sound like us ), but Scottish, nonetheless. I must admit to being a tiny bit disappointed (I enjoy his Upper Class Twit accent), but then he said "doom" and I was happy. And he wore a tux. And I was very happy. He was only in the first 20 minutes at most. I wouldn't have expected that from the DVD cover. However, Glorious 39 was a very good good film. It was rather a head fucky film, a, and I hate to fall in to "film review language", but it was a "taught thriller". One of those films that is just ever so slightly unsettling because you share the character's disorientation. Despite being absolutely nothing like it, plotwise, it reminded me an awful lot of Donnie Darko. The viewing experience was very similar. A good film, a very good film.