hey Ho

On videos, I always think as though I am suffering from a head cold.....it's all too nasal. Perhaps I should have cleared my tubes out with a good blow before I started..... Hey ho...I guess it puts paid to a late career in broadcasting.
Anyhow, here is the much requested view of the Church Cross ( well ok two of you asked for it)... I tried to inject a bit of va va voom into the presentation but failed miserably.......I feel a bit jaded today.... Watched the The Walking Dead TWICE ( back to back) last night... And got myself all over excited......hey ho again!
Right, I am now off to febreze the kitchen.
Winifred has bloody awful flatulence and  for some unexpected and gut churning reason William has just backed into the washing machine with a shitty arsehole.........
Hey, HEY ho!

Autumn Views

As I was picking dandelion leaves for Mary

I thought I would film another enthralling video

Of Trelawnyd on an Autumn afternoon

What fun

Zombie Friday

Grrrrrrrrr......series 4 in ten hours time

Daryl needs a bloody hair wash

...and finally

For over a year I have been trying to tame the Soay Ewes
And for a year the have kept their distance from me, acting more like wild beasts than domesticated sheep.
Today after work they seem to have experienced some sort of epiphany for when I was feeding the chickens with some corn, I offered the sheep a taste and they walked over and BLOODY WELL TOOK ONE!
It's only taken a year of trying....
Whoooooohooooooo!

A Kiss Goodnight

A late post....I am just about to go to bed and have been sitting enjoying the glow of the fire before " going up"
Because Chris is away Winifred has had a late pass and has been left in front of the log stove rather than be shown her crated bed in the kitchen. Just now she realised that she was late and slowly got up to amble off for the night.....
Before she went however....she staggered over to my chair and I swear she leant up and gave me the sweetest of goodnight kisses
The gesture almost made me weep, just a little
She is home
And she knows it........

Captain Phillips

Tom Hanks is not really a favourite actor of mine,....he bored me rigid in the bloody awful Castaway a few years back, so I have not been drawn to anything he has been in ever since..... But in Paul Greengrass' hijack drama Captain Phillips , Hanks carries the entire film with some of the best acting I have seen in a long time.
Playing the title role, Hanks  portrays the  " ordinary man caught up in extra ordinary circumstances" which seems a favourite subject of Greengrass' who made the desperately harrowing United 93, which told the story of the 9/11 aircraft passengers and their fight with the al-Qaeda  hijackers.
In this film Phillips is the strict Captain of an American cargo ship who has to play a cat and mouse game with four poor Somali fishermen turned hijackers who board his vessel off the Somali coast.
The action zigzags from cargo ship to lifeboat as Philips is taken sole hostage and for over two hours Greengrass cranks up the tension almost unbearably at times before the faceless American forces arrive to save the day.
Hanks is the real heart of the film, and in the last ten minutes, where we see his unflinching and raw portrayal of a man in deep shock, he very nearly breaks your heart.

Treat

The weather today is atrocious. Wet, cold and blustery, though you couldn't tell from the above photo. Irene and Sylvia are backing into the weather with scowls on their faces and the Ukrainian village is totally deserted.....only the ducks and geese are out
I am going to play hooky this afternoon and am off to the cinema.......what a treat!

Bake Off ...The semi Final ( beware spoilers)

Becca....waving the welsh flag rather well I thought

 The semi final of The Great British Bake Off separated the girls from the bakers. Francis and Kimberly looked cool and collected ( oh fuck off Kimberly)...and I loved that mousy Francis actually bit back at judge Paul Hollywood with this is " style with substance" comment..... Way to go girl....
But Ruby crumbled slightly with the gloriously funny Welsh lass Becca just behind her before they galloped into the final challenge ( Ruby tearful & Becca a little more sanguine )
You could cut the sponge tension with a knife!
Who got kicked out?
Well Becca of course.....it was a forgone conclusion which was a shame.

Ruby....upset at her soggy bottom

Kimberly, I hate to say looks as though she will win......she will deserve it too......... But I am not sure I would want to have a pint with her down the pub.... Like I would do with contestants Howard, Christine, Becca, Glenn and indeed now Ruby.....
No one  likes a big head but she does have the talent.....and a lovely smile
I now hope Ruby pulls it out of the bag.... But she is a mucky cow...... ( says him)