9 years

nuff said

Bryn Terfel sings Rule Britannia

See next blog.............nice to see this big slab of Welsh manhood at the Proms

Last night of the Proms

Chris absolutely LOVES the last night of the Proms!

For me?, well it is an OK night in with some fine music and a little flag waving...... However I do find the predominantly toffee nosed and somewhat schoolboy-ish audience..somewhat pretentious, what with the silly bobbing up and down to sea shanties and the manic clapping of the hooray Henrys in the front row.

Tonight Chris "waved his flag" manically from his couch and I "waved mine" (less enthusiastically) from the other!

The bottle of Veuve Cliquot certainly helped..........

scary

Flickan som lekte med elden

The Girl Who Played With Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden),...hummm what can I say.........The lesbian,pierced, abused and damaged Lisbeth Salander is back....she kicks some ass, gets her ass well and truly kicked and bounces around naked on a Swedish apartment's polished floor with her oddly named Girlfriend Wu........The second of Steig Larsson's Novels to be filmed makes for a passable but rather unsatisfying sequel, ten minutes into itI felt as though I was watching an extended tv movie rather than a multi million Krona film...
It was an ok 6/10
Three trips to the movies in one week
Boy do I live life in the fast lane......

The Trelawnyd Tap dancing ducklings

As requested, a quick video of the tap dancing ducklings..........I am such a tit

When Geese Attack

There is a feral cat that lives some where in the Graveyard. He is a nasty big bugger, who effortlessly survives by killing rabbits along the field borders. He causes me no real problems with the birds but poor Albert has been ambushed quite a few times now by the meaner and larger animal.
The last assault came late one night when the tom bushwhacked Albert right outside the back door. Albert's plaintive howling galvanised every dog to come to his rescue and all of them shot outside barking the cat away. like a pack of wolves.
This morning, the cat was back. I saw him first thing, slinking around the long grass by the farthest coop, and I thought no more about him. The rabbits in the field often crowd the field borders,so I just presumed he was out hunting.
As I was filling the water butts, I saw him flattened out in the grass and it was immediately evident that he was not stalking a rabbit. The object of his attentions was in fact two of the ghost hens who had already eaten and had waddled off behind a tussock of grass to sleep their usual couch potato and slightly helpless, sleep.
Before I could do anything, the geese glided into the scene; with necks extended in anger and fear Winnie and Jo honked and spat at the stranger, and with the three magpie ducks chattering behind them, the five birds effectively out flanked the cat.

Now I have seen the turkeys "face off" a predator before (usually George gets the bum deal) but this was the first time the geese AND the ducks had shown their true metal. Within 20 seconds the bemused cat had retreated towards the church wall and 10 seconds later the angry birds had forced him out of the field, hopefully for good.

I have always found these "little moments of drama" fascinating to watch.

Eyes Wide Open

A gay movie centred around an ultra orthodox Jewish community??? hummmm perhaps I could almost see Tevya and Golde from Fiddler on the Roof worrying about the civil ceremonies of their four husky sons?...then again .......perhaps not.
Tonight Hazel and I went to see the film Eyes Wide Open (Einayim Petukhoth)
It was an interesting if not predictable love story between a married and devot Butcher Aaron
(Zohar Shtrauss) and his student apprentice Ezri (Ran Danker).
The passions of the flesh take over both men over the chopping boards (interestingly Aaron debates with his Rabbi "does sinning bring you closer to god?) and the story takes its inevitable turn when the "modesty squads" from the tight knit community flex their outraged muscles against the two men.
Both Hazel and I found the gay content of the movie much less interesting than the fascinating depiction of an oppressive and claustrophobic religion and community that we know very little about. .....I gave it an interesting but not uplifting 7/10- I think I would have enjoyed a pinker version of "Matchmaker Matchmaker" just a little more............