Glenys and Geoff

No, not a new Australian soap! but our old neighbours from Cefn-y-Gwrych. This couple in their late sixties, are a lesson to all people in a relationship, as they never stop talking and never stop laughing! They came up today to the cottage to help with some wallpapering in our bathroom , Glenys is the runner and paster, while Geoff is the master paperer!
I have been entertained with gossip from our old road, pregnancy stories and family anacdotes in between copious cups of tea and lashing of cake!!

They are priceless................

Part two!!

Number Five : Ava Gardner had more balls then most of Hollywood put together. Sexy and tough she was a dirt farmers daughter from the deep South. Loved her in Mogambo! (Where she payed Honey Bear Kelly, a real tart with a heart).





Number Six: Bette Davies in All About Eve, isnt the most "beautiful" star but she was the most attractive and certainly the most stunning! Sexy, tough, vunerable and with a mouth like a fishwife, she was before her time.




Number Seven: Julia Roberts has a mouth like a split melon, or even an open gin trap, but she is one of the most beautiful women in cinema.





Number Eight: Margaret Avery. The gentle friend and supporter of Whoopie Goldberg in The Colour Purple. Another actress with a warmth that seems to come from within!




Number Nine: Keira Kightley, comes into her own in period dress. So Pride and prejudice was a particular favourite of mine.



Humm number ten is a difficult one, Jennifer Jones in (Portrait of Jennie), Carol Lynley in her hotpants in Poseidon Adventure, Audrey Hepburn in The Nun's Story, Slyvia Simms in Ice Cold in Alex, Amy Sloan in The Day After Tomorrow, Rosamund Pike in Pride and Prejudice, Olivia Hussey in Romeo and Juliet, Lauren Bacall in Key Largo.......all are joint number ten!!!!

Most attractive move actors (the other side!) Part one

Thought I would be balanced and list my fav most attractive women in cinema. Hey why not? I tend to find attractive three types Classic Hollywood, women with balls, and gentle warmth! Mind you some of the most attractive actors in film do not have typical good looks , for example Fernanda Montenegro,(Central Station), Gena Rowlands (Gloria), Bebe Neuwirth, (Tadpole) and the wonderful Patricia Clarkson (The Station Agent). So in a shallow way I have gone for beauty!!!



Number One: Michelle Yeoh Now 44. In films such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, she has a quiet dignity and a stillness which is quite beautiful.






Number Two: Olivia DeHavilland. She of the modulated voice and high cheekbones. stunning!

Number Three: Not the best picture of Helen Hunt, but she out of all of my ten has a certain warmth which in films such as As good as it gets, is rather moving!



Number Four: Well I have mentioned her a great deal in my blog, so no surprise to see Audrey Tautou here. A smile that could turn a gay man straight!

I could get used to this part time lark!

Saturday! and I have not really worked this week! am working tomorrow though, but at least the back garden has generally been finished and sorted. It is a beautiful day today, so got most of my spring bulbs in and titivated here and there. I need to start the front garden, but am going to have a long cup of tea,a blog and classic fm for an hour before a long dog walk on the beach. We are off to Theatre Clwyd tonight to see The squid and the whale, which tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980's.

Path finished and Buzzards

Ok, Ok, its the last photo of the finished path and border! , and I am in great need of a bath. Took the dogs for a long run on the beach as all the kids have started school and the place was deserted. Then flattened the left bed ready for the coop delivery tomorrow.

Saw 7 buzzards over the village today all flying together (at least they are not circling!). They were all crying like cats, wondered why they were calling like that- couldn't find the reason in my bird book! We are going out for a meal later to the Blue Lion, which will be nice.

My Top ten cont......

Number 6: who else ? Russell Crowe, the Robert Mitchum of 2000





Number 7: Mark Ruffalo (You can count on me, In The cut,) Humm usually wears a beard!
very talented





Number 8 : Josh Lucas (Poseidon,Sweet Home Alabama) more charisma and self depreciating humour





Number 9 : Well we had to have a Welshman, Anthony Hopkins at the start of his career in the thriller Magic 1978.





number ten: "Mr Darcy your breeches are magnificent!" A broody Mathew Macfadyen

Not another photo of the path

Well I was just about to put yet another picture of the new garden on the blog and stopped
myself at the last minute........so I decieded to be frivolous!! and list my top five attractive actors!!!


Number one : Peter Sarsgaard, (Kinsey, Skeleton Key, Jarhead, Flightplan) sweet!





Number Two : Mathieu Kassovitz (Amelie ) Cute AND French!



Number Three: A vintage stunner, and maverick Robert Mitchum





Number Four: a very funny actor and presenter Alexander Armstrong,



Number Five: a popular choice Jake Gyllenhaal!! (Brokeback Mountain) The youngest of my choices (I dont care)

My next 5 choices will be up next!!!!

Film 4

I am so happy we are able to get film 4 now!!! watched a couple of films tonight which I really did enjoy! Notting Hill (1999) is I think Richard Curtis' best film. Frothy and light, certainly, and with that awful view of the Brits as upper class twits, The film is saved in my mind by some nice peformances from Julia Roberts and the usual Brit supporting cast!( I loved Gina McKee too).

The other film was You Can Count On Me (2000) and is a very different story ----Split from their parents at an early age, Sammy and Terry, the older and younger, respectively, are forced to rely on one another throughout their youths until Terry vanishes, traveling across the nation for a long time.When he finally returns, Terry finds that Sammy has built a somewhat stable life for herself in their beautifully provincial Appalachian hometown with her single-mom life and her son, Rudy.

Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo play sister and brother, and I have seldom seen a more moving portrayal of sibling love and shared growing up secrets. It was a lovely moving and painfull film.