"I'll admit I may have seen better days, but I'm still not to be had for the price of a cocktail, "(Margo Channing)
A Good Read
Little Women
Prima Facie
Watering Rabbits
Ness Gardens
I bought a white agapanthus from the shop
Epiphany
A Town Like Alice
Filmed obviously in 1956 ( continuity forgot to period dress the cast) this little remembered movie of the famous Shute novel proved to be a little hidden gem this morning. Set in Malaya during the war it centres around the plight of a group of English women and children forced to March across the country in search of a prisoner of war camp which will house them.
It’s a cracking movie, which steals only part of the novel which really concentrates on the love affair between McKenna’s character and a bravura Australian squaddie Peter Finch who is eventually crucified by a sadistic Japanese Captain Yanyata.
I really enjoyed it and was kind of sad when it finished before midday.
Since then , I’ve just mooched. The dogs are listless and bored in the heat and there are jobs that need doing but I don’t feel like starting anything
Late Dog Walk
Chatty Cathy
Check Out
Butterflies
A Pretty Shitty Love
Evening Stroll
Crossing the Bar
1970s Holidays
Life Finds A Way
Nipples on the concrete
Old Friends
Walking into town from Bloomsbury , not far from Russell Square I literally bumped into an old friend from North Wales. I had forgotten he was a solicitor in London now as we’d sort of lost touch but it was lovely to see him.
We arranged to meet last night and as it was so warm I decided to blow off My Fair Lady for some proper conversation, A very cold Italian beer and a cheap pizza.
Soho was heaving, and felt oppressively busy what with the trans rights supporters demonstration swelling the street, so we walked down to the south Bank where the air was fresher and the streets less noisy.