Village news,& Red Cliff

I have been strimming and clearing weeds and small bushes all day. I should have moved another hundredweight of stone from the collapsed wall too, but never quite got round to the job. The weather has been glorious today, one of those clear bright day of autumn, and I think my brother had the right idea to make the most of the mild spell by booking a trip up Snowdon.

Chris took the car today,so I was effectively marooned in the village...... but to be honest I never mind this at all!!!

When I took the dogs out for their walk ( this has become a bit of a trial as Albert has now decided to follow us even though we walk on the main road- so I have to go through the rigmarole of trapping him in the kitchen and locking the cat flap with a spoon!) I bumped into Bob ( the guy that taught me to cull my roosters) and he informed me that there is to be another "open" community council meeting on Monday. Although it will be situated in the neighbouring village of Gwaenysgor, I think I will make the effort to attend......the bunfight at the last meeting was quite illuminating to say the least!.....the workings and factions within the committee had to seen to be believed Anyhow this evening I took myself to the cinema to see Chi bi (Red Cliff).

Now I have no trouble going to the pics alone if I need to, it is a habit Nu and I always got into two decades ago, and even now both of us will not hesitate in going to the cinema by ourselves as long as we phone or text a brief "marks out of ten" score to each other afterwards! Nu has been so supportive to me over the past few weeks, and rang today in between interviewing patients at work......she would have hated Red Cliff, where I in fact loved it!

Red Cliff is a modern day Chinese Spartacus....it has everything a good historical epic should have!---bags of action, a cast you actually care about, a million extras running amok with bows and arrows, a brief sweet natured romance and a snippet of homo erotic zither playing! (well whatever the Chinese version of a zither is called anyhow!)

It also has the very handsome Takeshi Kaneshiro (above) who is VERY easy on the eye...

I loved it 8.5 out of 10!!!