The Saddest Noise from 'The Lost Birds' by Christopher Tin

On Saturday night amid the silliness in the hall, I photographed Mrs Trellis in her vintage 1970s dress looking fab.

Before she left, (wafting her money like Crystal Carrington) , she told me to listen to this piece of music if I got the chance.

She knows I’m a fan of Christopher Tin’s work but I have not heard of his lost Birds work before so after a root around I found it only this morning as I took the dogs for their first wee stop before HTC ( Hubby of Trendy Carol) picks them up for the day as I’m in college.

It kind of takes your breath away in its beauty

Not something you expect in a dark Welsh lane……at dawn…..on a Tuesday morning.

Anatomy Of A Fall

 Courtroom dramas done well can be compelling cinema, but the trick for success  is for the screenplay to be complicated, tense and very clever.

Anatomy of a Fall has a first class screenplay. penned by director Justine Triet and Arthur Harari which centres around the death of a jobbing writer, who falls from the upstairs window of his French Chalet. Suspicion for his death starts to build against his wife, Sandra ( Sandra Hüller) who is a successful writer with a complicated relationship with her husband but a loving one with their eleven year old  son, who was blinded in an accident when he was four. 

The police investigation finally leads to court where more of the couple’s relationship is unravelled by a tenacious prosecutor( Antoine Reinhartz) and the defence lawyer (Swann Arlaud) a former suitor to Saudra.

Now, add to the mix that Sandra (who is German) only spoke English to her French husband and finds speaking French a difficulty and you have a fascinatingly uneven plot complicated by the fact that on the surface Sandra is such an unsympathetic character. She is bisexual, has had affairs during her marriage and seems capable of physical violence, a fact supported by secret recordings of conversations  between herself and her husband made by her husband in order to spark his failing writing career. 

One recording is shown as if filmed and in it Sandra’s calm and somewhat reserved nature is questioned in a brilliantly acted scene full of passion and intelligence and skill.

It’s a wonderfully put together film, that wrong foots the audience constantly. 

And  although some of aspects of the trial concerning the son ( a nice performance by Milo Graner) do beggar belief ( perhaps it is normal for police officers in France to give surely opinions rather than just facts)  I was hooked from the start

A long watch but it’s worthwhile.

By the way I went to see the film at the new Chester Picture House a very shiny and over-the -top and very TALL Cinema, where I had to negotiate 6 flights of stairs to get to my seat

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You are never too old to grow up a little more.

I’ve always loved this song

And never understood a word of it.

I’ve had a nice weekend all told and that was unexpected 

And has been a lesson learned

I’ve emailed my ex husband and wished him and his new husband well

And for the very most part of it all

I really meant it

Hey ho

Casino Night

 Sometimes we all need a bit of silliness and Trelawnyd had that in spades last night when the Casino Night rolled out the red carpet.The Male members of the TCA donned their best DJs and set up betting tables with poker, blackjack roulette, craps and the like, then for a ten pound fee, we were give 150 £ in notes to make the biggest profit.

At the end of the night there was a fun auction where people betted their winnings against each other in order to buy a hamper etc, or some unknown Booby prizes such as Afternoon Tea Out ( which turned out to be two teabags and a cake) 

You get the gist.

My friend Ponies Sue and I sat with village leaders Helen And Ian, Boffin Cameron and his mum, Gill from choir and Nick, but we were soon winning money handover fist as beginners’ luck kicked in.

Boffin Cameron leading the lady riders

Over a hundred villagers turned up

I’ve never met this lady before but I love the Welsh touch of her putting her winnings in the side of her bobble hat

Bridget and Loraine who helped organise the event

Mrs Trellis looking groovy

TCA trustees Will and Glyn

The pub provided the bar and although I drank too many ciders, I managed to get home without weaving too much , something a few of my fellow villagers failed to do, I may add….

It’s raining and miserable today , and again bra straps are being hoisted as I’m off to the opening of the new cinema in Chester The Picturehouse

Im going to see the French hit drama Anatomy Of A Fall this afternoon

Hey dearhearts hey ho

Over The Rainbow

Sometimes we haven’t the words to say, sometimes we haven’t any to write

Sometimes silence is the way forward .

I’m a Gemini 

So chatting and chatter is in my nature

We Gemini’s seldom sit still

Having said this I was born premature so should have been a cancer by rights?

Cancerians are moody and emotional and hidden

I will leave you with this old gem 

Back on Sunday

Scotch Egg Resus

Dorothy was poorly this morning and refused her breakfast

This worried me greatly as she hasn’t missed a meal in five years, 

So I fussed around her as she lay quiet on the kitchen reading chair and even contemplated not going to Chester to meet my friend Ruth for lunch so worried I was 

But Bulldogs are not bulldogs for a reason and by four o’clock , the scent of a sliver of bespoke scotch egg wafted around the kitchen brought the girl back from the brink of death

Ruth treated me from the butchers in the new Chester Market

I gave Dorothy a half egg ( a true prize in this house) to clinch her full recovery

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Hysteria

 I miss laughing like I did when I was a child 

I think we all do

Laughing so much you cried

When a drunk Auntie Betty trapped herself on top of a child’s slide with a packet of chocolate buttons melting down her cleavage 

When Gran Fry got locked in the lavatory and was calling out for help

When one of the posh girls from Brynterion Close put on a dance show and shouted out “Crumbs” when she fell over

Great moments of pure humour.

Night Nurse Hysteria is a common phenomenon on busy wards.

It often occurs right at the end of shift and is culmination of over tiredness, stress, the need to debrief and realisation that you will have to do the whole thing again the next night.

Once I was sat at the end of my patient’s bed on Itu, totally knackered.

A domestic decided she was going to clean  the floor with a loud buffing machine and in a low voice I threatened to kill her with a drip stand if she didn’t stop 

The domestic knew me and knew I was joking but the nurses around me saw the funny side of the threat and started to laugh.

I remember laughing until I cried as they did the same, the Filipino nurses still polite , shielding their mouths with their hands 

And that morning all you could hear was the bleeps of the monitors and the strangled hysterical laughter of the staff