I saw a couple of films over Xmas - one at the cinema and one on DVD.

The Last Jedi was interesting, but a little disappointing. It's quite a nice character piece and a sci fi where the women have decent roles, but I felt that the plot was rather lacking and that the background had not been developed any further. Very pretty though.

Hidden ( Read more... )

Friday night we sat down and watched A Monster Calls. Very good, well-acted and extremely sad. A story about a boy whose mother is suffering from cancer and how he relates to that and his problems with bullies at school. With the added dimension of a story monster which is the elm tree he can see from the house. Recommended if you have plenty of ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I posted and the weather seems to be much more autumny. I'm now back at work and I've got an interview next week for which I need to prepare a ten minute presentation.

Over the last few weeks I've read a couple of books.

• Storm House by Mark Hibbett - This started strongly, but I was less impressed by the end. It was ( Read more... )

Our Lovefilms offering at the start of August was Star Trek Beyond. This was rather more mainstream than our last two films (Moon and Tale of Tales) and fairly decent light entertainment. Also it had Idris Elba in it (although, for the most part, unrecognisable). However, it suffered from a lack of consistency and a lack of coherence. The more I ( Read more... )

We watched Tale of Tales on Friday. It consisted of three separate fairy tales being told about three royal families. There was little overlap between them, but they were all in the same style. It was rather weird and the characters were all difficult to empathise with as all seemed very selfish and uncaring about others (or more than one other ( Read more... )

It has been a rather quiet few weeks. We've seen a couple of films, roleplayed once and celebrated our twenty-second wedding anniversary ( Read more... )

Last Saturday, in 100 Secrets we waged war on the Half Lords. We teamed up with the Count of Narthal and his consort Tabitha after discovering we had a common enemy. We divided into three teams - the Count and consort (Team A), the usual duo of Lady Rose (leathellin) and Loy (lanfykins) (Team B), plus the Tiger God (quisalan) and the non-combatants - Neddra (myself) and ( Read more... )

Earlier this month we watched Arrival. We had heard good reviews and were interested to see it. The result is a good sci-fi film, but it did not quite live up to expectations. The lead role was acted brilliantly by Amy Adams and the story was interesting, but some of the consistency felt it would fall apart if prodded too much ( Read more... )

I went back to Belfast on Monday, this time for two days of work and staying overnight near Stormont. The trip went reasonably well and we had a good meal together on the Monday night. However it was also two long days and I was glad to be home.

On Thursday it was my birthday. bateleur had bought me lots of bags of dice, a new book, a music CD and ( Read more... )

Bea's school was doing a production of Oliver this year. Bea had one of the few female parts - that of Mrs. Sowerberry. We went to see her in it on Thursday (along with Bea's friend Lizzy) and both she and the performance were excellent. I've never been good at acting and it's nice to see that she doesn't take after me at all ( Read more... )