Typical Sunday
Actually this was a slightly atypical Sunday,but it did includea lot of things I usually do, but not always on a Sunday.
I'm starting an outdoor fitness class in aa couple of weeks, Nordic Walking, basically walking with ski sticks. As the Perth based tutor wasn't answering e-mails and seemed to be a dead entry on the website, I'm going to Dundee. In fact it's in a park in Broughty Ferry, which is a train to Dundee and then a bus. But I'm pretty familier with the area. That said I did a trial run out which was useful. So after getting to the park, I sat and ate my sandwiches, disappointing a number of small yappy dogs. (The Scotty dog was particularly cute) So I decided to walkback into Dundee. Now due to a slight miscalc I had already walked a mile or so and it's about 4 miles from Broughty to Dundee, which is in my range, but still a bit of a hike, especially along a main road.
Sobought myselfacopy of Alan Moore's "Jeruselem", a large novel,presented as three paperbacks in a slip cover. £20 instead of £25. I walked down to the DCA Dundee Contemporary Arts and was very glad of some green tea and a chocolate & beetroot cake with icing. I completed the afternoon with a film at the DCA,"Captain Fantastic" starring Viggo Mortensen as an off grid father who with his recently deceased wife was bringing up kids in the American wilderness.
His in-laws try to stop him going to th e funeral,sohe and the kids take a road trip...
I found the film to look fantastic,expecially the wilderness sections, to be stunningly well played and funny moving and deeply critical of the traditional life choices, whilst facing up to the issues around removing your kids from society. Viggo isstunning in the central role and at times conveys so much with extended silence and the sort of non verbal communication that sort of close nit family would have. Oh and Frank Lagella plays the father in law / grandfather. It's a sort of character he can do in his sleep, and it's a joy to see him again.
I tend to go and sit in DCA and drink tea a lot. It's like the Sheffield Showroom with a modern art exhibition centre above!
I'm starting an outdoor fitness class in aa couple of weeks, Nordic Walking, basically walking with ski sticks. As the Perth based tutor wasn't answering e-mails and seemed to be a dead entry on the website, I'm going to Dundee. In fact it's in a park in Broughty Ferry, which is a train to Dundee and then a bus. But I'm pretty familier with the area. That said I did a trial run out which was useful. So after getting to the park, I sat and ate my sandwiches, disappointing a number of small yappy dogs. (The Scotty dog was particularly cute) So I decided to walkback into Dundee. Now due to a slight miscalc I had already walked a mile or so and it's about 4 miles from Broughty to Dundee, which is in my range, but still a bit of a hike, especially along a main road.
Sobought myselfacopy of Alan Moore's "Jeruselem", a large novel,presented as three paperbacks in a slip cover. £20 instead of £25. I walked down to the DCA Dundee Contemporary Arts and was very glad of some green tea and a chocolate & beetroot cake with icing. I completed the afternoon with a film at the DCA,"Captain Fantastic" starring Viggo Mortensen as an off grid father who with his recently deceased wife was bringing up kids in the American wilderness.
His in-laws try to stop him going to th e funeral,sohe and the kids take a road trip...
I found the film to look fantastic,expecially the wilderness sections, to be stunningly well played and funny moving and deeply critical of the traditional life choices, whilst facing up to the issues around removing your kids from society. Viggo isstunning in the central role and at times conveys so much with extended silence and the sort of non verbal communication that sort of close nit family would have. Oh and Frank Lagella plays the father in law / grandfather. It's a sort of character he can do in his sleep, and it's a joy to see him again.
I tend to go and sit in DCA and drink tea a lot. It's like the Sheffield Showroom with a modern art exhibition centre above!