20. Night at the Museum 3: Secret of the Tomb (2014), dir. Shawn LevyI watched this on DVD from Lovefilm in August while writing my half of a co-authored chapter on Augustus on screen, so that I could check a) whether this latest entry in the franchise cast any further light on whether Octavius (Steve Coogan's character) is meant to have anything ( Read more... )

On Saturday, I reached the grand old age of thirty-two, and went on an outing to Castle Howard to celebrate. I had redkitty23 and her partner, Vincent, as house-guests for the weekend (en route to a Primatology conference in Edinburgh), so we were able to pile into Anna's cute little retro-style Fiat 500, swoop big_daz up from Wortley, and head off out into the ( Read more... )

This is mainly a test post, really.

But while I'm at it, have a picture of the Choiseul Gouffier Apollo.


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