Oscar thoughts,a teaching session and more spring work

As a lonely teen I used to love the Oscars. Hidden away in my bedroom with the black and white portable television late at night, I would be sat there, pen in paper in hand, making copious notes on the winners, losers and nominees and invariably would be disappointed by the fickle nature of the voting.
I didn't stay up to watch the ceremony last night, my days of making reference notes are long since gone, but I do take an active interest in the results, especially after a day digging and weeding!
Of course last night's results were a no brainer!; after a few years with non Americans winning the main acting honours, it was time for the academy to stick with American-as-apple pie nominations and so,of course,Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock won their first awards.

I cannot comment of the quality of the acting for these two categories, as I have not seen either movie as yet, but I am glad that both Bridges and Bullock won. Bullock especially is not known for her "serious" acting, but she has a likability about her which goes a long long way in the public's eyes....I guess it is just time for her,as it was for the likes of Sally "you like me, you really like me" field, a few years ago!

Lots of nice frocks were on show, Sam Worthington looked sexy as hell, and Vera Farminga (pity she didn't win her oscar for Up in the air) won the award for worst chick in a frock!

Anyway I will move on from discussing one over dressed bird, to discuss another!
This afternoon a group of walkers stopped by the field to buy some eggs and ended up staying for an impromptu teaching session.!
The group ( from Birkenhead) seemed to be fascinated in the behaviour of the hens, and were tickled pink by the protective instinct shown by the cockerels when a small group of buzzards flew over.
Jesus,(below) is especially excitable when danger is threatened, and will growl like a tiger when he feels at risk. Unfortunately he has not got a group of hens all of his own to protect, so ended up galloping over to the runner ducks to save some face....
One elderly lady from the amblers group took my number and asked if I would show some members of her social "friendship" group around the field one afternoon. I agreed as long as non one sues me! ( the thought of some old gal falling over a wayward guinea fowl and breaking a hip worries me! or am I getting a little paranoid?)
Anyhow the group, as it turned out, was a catholic Church walkers club, and after learning that they were, in fact, watching "Jesus" ,they collapsed into a mass of cackles and laughter, especially as one of their party was called Mary!
"Ooooh Mary meet Jesus...." one old fella kept repeating,,,,,,,
I had forgotten how scousers find humour in EVERYTHING!!
Anyhow, the final veg plot is almost finished (below) I have only a few more metres to clear. Planting can start very soon!

Chris is away tonight so I am off to Geoff's for a glass of wine and a chat, to while away the evening. This week I am going to catch up with my Oscar movies, The Lovely Bones and Precious need to be seen!

Boys of BOSTON flag football team

I am not a follower of football but I could make an exception....
(love the cleaning lady at 25 seconds)

Man flu & Jobs done

Chris has a cold.....( sorry I am supposed to say manflu) and has spent all of Sunday in his pyjamas ! ( which I think is a bit common) He kept his PJs on ( with what I noticed to be a nicely coordinating hat and scarf) when he came over to the field to watch me dig out the beds.
It has been another lovely day today, with blue skies and no wind;
I have cleared the raspberry bed of weeds which was a herculean act in in itself

And completely stripped my pea frames of weeds and rubbish. After an awful winter the allotment is starting to take shape yet again

The Poseidon Adventure New Years Celebration and Capsize

I am being a geek this morning......if you have the time,AND the inclination watch this video then have a look at the following home made video ( filmed in a garage incidently)
The attention to detail is amazing!

"Poseidon Adventure" Parody Pt. 3

Start watching the video around 3.30......and compare it with the original!.......you will see just how clever this home made spoof it!

Glorious 39

Glorious 39, is a movie with one helluva cast of Brit favourites! Bill Nighy,Jenny Agutter, Julie Christie, David Tennent, Christopher Lee, Romola Garai,Hugh Bonneville, Charlie Cox and Jeremy Northern all pop up in this uneven, unbelievable and rather clunky espionage thriller set on the eve of World War 2
I can't be bothered discussing the plot, suffice to say that there were more holes in it than a block of Swiss Cheese.....and I have to say that the acting from Bill Nighy in particular has to be seen to be believed!- he actually looks as though he is reading his lines from a slow moving autocue- it's a dreadfully embarrassing performance which is not helped by an awful script and character motivations that the audience cannot quite understand!

Garai, on a plus note gives her 1930 heroine everything she's got, and Charlie Cox is sexy-as-hell as her smoothie boyfriend (above left).....but nothing else saves this poorer version of a 39 Steps-ish thriller
6/10

No news day

The weather today has been warm and springlike.
We had a jolt first thing as when we were lying in bed with a cup of tea and the usual blanket of dogs (and cat), four horses walked past the cottage, loose on the lane.
Chris and I galloped outside ( Chris in his stocking feet) and we managed to stop the horses before they ambled up to the main road. After a bit of arm waving we drove the animals into a spare field down the lane, where their owners would collect them all later.
The weather seems to have galvanised the whole village into gardening action, as everywhere mowers had been started and flower beds cleared out!
Steve (aka Islwyn) has made another new start on the Church wall, with me acting as barrow boy, and this afternoon I have cleared yet another vegetable bed....
Later we are off to Theatre Clwyd to see Glorious 39.

ME,me,me,me,me,me and me....

Am I the only person who suffers from the occasional bouts of depressive realization that I am getting older? Today I had two such flashes of reality.
The first came when I was having a cup of coffee in front of the tv. A quiz programme " Eggheads" was on and 5 contestants, all sat in a line, were introducing themselves.
The first four men on the team were good looking men in their thirties,and mentally I could almost see myself sat with them answering the questions like a good 'un! The fifth man looked a right old crock in comparison and I had the shock of my life when he stated that his name was Brian and he was 45!
Two years younger than me!!!
Gawd.....it is at times like these that I suddenly realise that I am completely "middle aged" and not the young man that I often think I am.
It is a depressing thought, and one that was compounded by a glimpse of my hands later on in the day. Now I know we all see at our hands a million times a day, but I guess that we only LOOK at our hands only very occasionally. I did, just that this evening when I was rubbing moisturiser cream into my allotment ravaged palms, and I was shocked to see a pair of hands that belonged to my father!
All wrinkled and cracked, I now am sad to admit that I have geriatric digits!

..........and let's not forget the knackered old body to go with them....................