Is really very good. John and I went to see it last night. It was a late show (20.45 start) as everything else was sold out when I booked. So we went for a curry first at a nice little Indian restaurant just down the street from our cinema, and then headed in for the film. We arrived early enough for the film to get good seats, which was worth ( Read more... )

Had a lovely New Year weekend with Mum staying. We blitzed out kitchen (what started out as simply tidying out one cupboard lefd to major re-tidying of all cupboards apart from the crockery ones!). We now have a lovely, tidy, organised kitchen, with much more counter space having put a lot of the clutter away. The challenge is to first of all keep ( Read more... )

I've had a lovely weekend this weekend, doing all sorts of girlie things as John is still away in California. From the text messages I've been receiving it seems he's having a lovely time, and doing a lot of wine tasting ( Read more... )

Well, it was supposed to be a quiet weekend at home, but I didn't manage to get half the jobs done that I wanted to ( Read more... )

Went out with John last night to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I'm a bit "hmmmmmm" about it to be honest. It's very much in Tim Burton's style, and I think if you hadn't read the book or seen the Gene Wilder film version it would probably be a good film. Good performances from Johnny Depp, and the little boy who played Charlie, but I didn' ( Read more... )