It has rained a lot today, so I have caught up with some of my reading. Lucky the BBQ was yesterday!

I have just finished The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. It is a curious book, written from the point of view of a teenager with Asperger's Syndrome. Christopher tries to find out who killed his neighbour's dog and ( Read more... )

I cried at the end.

The ultimate Question ... in a game of charades. It is a radio play, a book, a mini TV series (mini by US standards (review of Supersize Me to follow later)), a computer game, and more! And now, at last, it is a movie. bellanna and I saw it today at 1pm in the Cambridge Arts Picture House, a more refined movie watching experience than the WarnerVue, even ( Read more... )

Thanks to thousands of people for repeating the mistake shown in that episode of Father Ted where the Pope bans a film, the three priests chain themselves to the front of the cinema and thus more people go to see the film to see what the fuss was about.

Last night bellanna and I watched Jerry Springer : The Opera on BBC2. They made a whole night of it and ( Read more... )

bellanna is great at scoring free stuff. Yesterday she got 2 preview tickets to Team America, World Police and the local Vue cinema shuffled us and about 140 other free loaders into one of their smallest screens. The audience was full of students so I expected them to laugh along with the predicted South Park level of humour ( Read more... )

On Tuesday evening, while bellanna was being wined and dined on company expenses, I went to see The Incredibles, Pixar's latest animated movie. For the first time in a very long time, I was one of those people who arrive during the last couple of adverts and trailers just before the movie starts. I arrived at the Vue's booking desk at 18:15 and the clark ( Read more... )

After a very grotty night's sleep (I had a long, involved dream about protecting Superman's and Batman's capes which were being flown like flags on top of a very tall building) I was disappointed I had already booked the day off work. My nose has been very bunged up, and my right cheek sinus ached. I dropped Sandi off for work and returned home via ( Read more... )

A couple of old friends of mine from my Cubic days visited for the weekend. They arrived on Friday evening quite late after getting lost in and around Hemel Hempstead. Fortunately bellanna and I were cooking fajitas which don't take too much preparation before being served. I hadn't seen Claire and Julian (not LJ users yet, still!) for a couple of years ( Read more... )

bellanna and I saw the film Orphée at the Cambridge Picture House this evening. A big thanks to the Radio Times for the free tickets - today was the last day we could use the tickets and we were worried their would be nothing worth seeing.

Orphée is definitely worth seeing! Directed by Jean Cocteau, it tells the mythological story of a poet who travels ( Read more... )

Hmmmmm, I do like Air's latest album Talkie Walkie :-) (website requires Flash). As every other reviewer appears to have said, the sound of this album is much more like Moon Safari than the more quirky 10,000Hz Legend. bellanna and I did contemplate buying a special edition of the album including a DVD of the two French guys playing live, but instead I ( Read more... )