Phone was taken from the kitchen table during 1 minute when my back was turned
Oh lord…….
Lost without my phone……thought I’d never be the type
Stopped Short
Yesterday, I spent seven hours at college, most of it reading and writing notes.
Subsequently I slept well after settling down well after 9 .30 pm
I was up early this morning and walked the dogs
It is the first morning I could see my breath as I poked my head out from under the duvet.
It was the first morning that Dorothy had wormed herself under the duvet
I went out to buy food, and pulled Bluebell into a lay-by in order to concentrate on the first of the Reith Lectures on Radio 4.
An eloquent, disarming and articulate Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie spoke beautifully about the freedom of speech and for an hour I sat and listened to her wise words, almost without moving a muscle .
I love moments like these.
Yesterday morning, as I went to check on my laburnum tree in the churchyard I noticed a man bending over a grave. His posture looked odd and so it caught my attention and as I watched him , it took me a little while before I realised that he was actually hugging the gravestone.
I sensed he was talking away too
A bitter sweet moment,
Spied out of nowhere.
And only last night a friend sent me the link to this simple video made from a regular Ukrainian Soldier out on the front line.
Like the lecture by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and the vision of the man hugging the gravestone, the soldier’s simple honestly and genuineness was simply rather beautiful
Request From The Trelawnyd Community Association
Is there anyone in the village in a position to support all of the good work achieved by the
Trelawnyd Community Association ( TCA)
We need helping hands in every area of the association and volunteers can contribute as little or as much as they are able
The Youth Club, Village Pond Initiative, Coffee Mornings and recent Casino night
all have been successful and popular and there are many more community based activities in the pipeline.
Ruth
My old friend Ruth is down from Findhorn in Scotland
I made a huge Cottage Pie which we ate with red wine, green beans and Crusty bread and 5 hours of solid conversation
We had almost finished and caught up on messenger with our mucker Ben in South Korea before bed
It’s nice to have her back
Proud Dad
Sometimes it’s nice to feel that you’ve brought up your kids right
Yesterday Trendy Carol introduced the dogs to her kid relatives ,
The dogs aren’t used to children at all
But they proved themselves as good natured , silly friends to a pair of sweet kids
The Big Country
Film music, in my mind can eclipse many classic pieces as most are melodic, short and paint a picture more vivid that anything else could ever do.
Whilst gridlocked yesterday , I listened to this stirring score by Jerome Moross and after researching the film again was surprised to find out that it was one of Gregory Peck’s least favourite movies.
What is your favourite film score…….and why?
The Half Arsed Tree
I bought a half arsed Christmas tree from Sainsbury’s this morning
The check out guy on self service said it looked “ cheerful “ but his heart wasn’t in it.
I thought it would cheer up the corner under the stairs .
It doesn’t .
I bought the dogs some cocktail sausages as a treat and Dorothy hyperventilated herself so much in excitement that I almost had to sit her down with a paper bag over her head.
She was theatrically sick in the living room right next to Albert’s latest pee stain, then ate the vomit without a blink of an eye
Albert forgot that there is a litter tray in the office for him
The carpet cleaner is getting a bashing this month.
I took Eve Randa’s birthday card round and did a few jobs.
It’s a miserable day, dark and damp
And the binmen made me wait in Byron Street for such an age that Mrs Trellis lapped me twice with Blue in tow.
It’s winter and she’s wearing her very erect bobble hat again.
I listened to the entirety of The Big Country by Jerome Moross and Borodin’s String Quartet on Classic Fm before the road cleared.
It was raining heavily when I got home.
I’ve lit the fire and Roger had eaten two fluffy balls from off my new tree in the time it took to turn around
Halloumi chips for lunch
Dorothy is belching and the cottage is filled with the vague smell of sausage
She says…….Me Too
mulligan & Kazan
Journalistic dramas are not new in Hollywood. They can make riveting viewing left in the right hands and this powerful microscopic look into the abusive reign of the sexual predator that was Harvey Weinstein is a sobering, fascinating and intimately ground breaking movie which tells the story of tenacious journalism and institutional sexism within the Hollywood machine, something which would ultimately spark a world wide movement against sexual harassment.
Two reporters from The New York Times, Megan Twohay ( Carey Mulligan) and Jodi Kantor ( Zoe Kazan) start to investigate an accusation that for decades Miramax film producer Weinstein had abused dozens of junior production staff as well as actresses on the Miramax payroll.
Weinstein’s legal team had effective buried any of the Women’s’ stories by legal non disclosure clauses, bullying and by other holes in the Justice system, so Twohey and Kantor have to chip away at an ever growing list of victims in order to substantiate their story.
It’s a fascinating tale, intelligently told by writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz and director Maria Schrader.
Time and time again the two women have to face dead ends , frightened witnesses who won’t talk and the money fuelled Hollywood legal system , that is until actresses Rosè McGowan and Ashley Judd risk all by opening their mouths at last.
Jennifer Ehle
A star turn by Samantha Morton
She Said is essentially a succession of “ victim interviews” by Twohey and Kantor, and as the story unfolds two pivotal scenes will linger long in the mind. The first is where former Weinstein aide Zelda Perkins ( Samantha Morton) tells the reporters of how he abused her colleague and friend, (an event she amazingly stood up to him for) and this scene , set simply in a London cafe it is a true masterclass of acting by Morton who I wouldn’t be surprised be nominated for an academy award for just ten minutes on film.
Another British actress Jennifer Ehle puts in a moving turn as another victim haunted by the abuse and Hollywood stalwart Patricia Clarkson puts in a solid supporting turn as the journalist’s editor Rebecca Corbett.
I can’t praise this film enough.
It covers so much ground,so much misogyny and so much abuse
And it seems incredulous to me that this investigation only happened in 2017
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