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Random, as it suggests!
. I have surfaced from the hell that is packing to write this post (and that could be a whole other rant in itself. How on EARTH am I meant to get enough clothes into a bag for three days AND still come under the weight allowance? I mean 20kg is bad enough but I am trying to just take hand luggage and there is a limit of 12kg. Twelve
Trees are my barometer of the weather and the ever changing seasons. You might not notice the temperature dropping slightly after a lazy summer but you will notice the leaves falling from trees. Once of my earliest memories is of kicking leaves on Wimbledon Common. When the frost hits it is not the ground I look at but the trees. Covered in ice they are almost
. If you are fan of Deal or No Deal you will know what the Dream Factory is. If you have never watched this programme, well not only are you missing out but you will have no clue what the Dream Factory is. Let me enlighten you. Ten years ago this autumn a show hit our screens that is like no other. There is just one question: “Deal
. Where Eagles Dare is a film that is as old as I am, or I’m as old as it is, or something. I’m using a bit of artistic licence, obviously – I’m only 28 as you know. This is one of those films that everyone has seen, haven’t they? I mean, it even has its own drinking game, courtesy of @almurray (via @littlejason). So it’s practically an institution. And I
. I could have ranted about so much this week but I am writing this post at 6.30am before I wake the teen at 7am and then leave the house at 7.30am and don’t return until 6pm. I have already showered, dressed, fed the cats, tidied the lounge, put the washing machine on, worked out to have for dinner and folded a pile of towels. In fact I could
. There is no denying that social media is a big part of our life as a family. Okay, admittedly I am the biggest user of it, possibly on a scale completely incomprehensible by friends and family who don’t have Twitter or Facebook accounts, let alone blogs. For my close family though it is just a way of life now and they are quite used to getting texts from friends
. I kicked off the “New for 2015” Film Club last week with American Beauty and have now seen it for the first time. What can I say? Wow. It’s an incredible film and one I would definitely watch again because I am sure each time you watch it you see more. It’s heartstoppingly brilliant. I will watch it again. And if you watch it and
. This is it, this is really happening then. I mentioned late last year that I was going to kick off a film club on the blog (and blogged about it here: Announcing the Film Club) in the hope I could see “must see” films that I haven’t seen but the rest of world have, or revisiting films that I adore and think others might not have seen such
It seems wrong to be kicking off the new year with a miserable blog post but this blog is nothing if not honest, and to be honest right now I am feeling pretty miserable. I hate New Year. There I have said it out loud. And I apologise to all those around me for whom this brings down the general mood of celebration. But that is just it.
Like so many blog posts I write the post you are reading is not the one I planned. Today’s post was going to be a look back at the year to see just what BB Towers had been up to. Holding the FA Cup in our lounge (no you shut up, we so did) / a trip to Tanzania / Mr B putting up with me saying “we are
Late last year I happened to mention that I had never seen Rita, Sue and Bob Too. What turns out to be an iconic film. When I mentioned this fact on Twitter people were amazed I hadn’t seen it and raved about how fantastic it was. One lovely friend then sent me a copy of it to prove just how magnificent it was. This sparked a big
The world changed ten years ago today. Many people just learned what a tsunami was, so many of us hadn’t even heard the word, for hundreds of thousands more their lives were devastated when a tidal wave crashed onto land following a massive earthquake. Family members were lost, villages wiped out, livelihoods destroyed. And in amongst all that destruction were two of our greatest friends: Sam and