Cria Cuervos, Jolly Spaniards and life beyond computers

My computer gave up the ghost yesterday.

All I have been left with is a black screen, a few unless instructions, and  a whole load of frustration.

But that's the way of our modern world sometimes;- we rely on these little cubes of technology just that little bit too much dont we?

Of course I will continue to blog, but I am now using Chris' work computer until mine can be resurrected or binned, so will have to dovetail into his routine somewhat.....

Ann Torrent in Croa Cuervos

Anyhow, last night I went to see a re run of the 1976 Spanish Film Raise Ravens... a wonderful and melancholy little film about a sad, little girl surviving life without her beloved mother (Geraldine Chaplin) by living in her own lonely little world.

It's a kind of like Pan's Labyrinth without the monsters.

The film was enlivened by three middle aged Spanish ladies who sat behind me ( who said North  Wales wasn't a cultural melting pot?)

Obviously they identified with all of those cultural and personal ques within the film ,so when the little girl played her favourite record or sang her favourite song, the ladies  would all join in, but would do so in a polite but ever so excited whisper.
So I kept my gob, uncharacteristically shut

Usually I find such behaviour unacceptable , and am not at all shy in letting such "culprits" know the fact, (firmly and loudly), but in this case, I found their obvious pleasure at re living a childhood that must have seemed a million miles away  from a damp night in a North Wales Cinema rather amusing.

The film although excellent, needed a bit of a lift anyway

It's a dull, lifeless kind of day today........and you know what? I could do with those three jolly Spaniards around the cottage