What a lovely weekend we had! First the Chawton visit on Saturday then a lovely relaxed day at home with the garden and the puppies. We rounded it off with a very long walk around Frensham Little Pond yesterday, visiting late in order to avoid the sun a bit. As it turned out, we could have left it later as it was still hot.
On the way home we stopped in at The Barley Mow at Tilford for an icy cold beer (yes, I had a lager) and a cider, enjoying them in the gorgeous countryside that surrounds the beer garden. The cricket match had just finished on the green and the spectators were lined up on the benches outside the pub, beers in hand. It was idyllic.
Before we left, we popped down to the fence to have a look at the river that I claimed wasn’t there. On a small island made from bits of mud and foliage, were huddled a family of ducklings. Mum wasn’t far away, keeping an eye out as her brood squished up together on their tiny bit of land. It was so cute, I had to take a photo.
Huddling ducklings behind the Barley Mow, Tilford
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We watched two films this weekend which I want to share. On Saturday night we saw Avatar. I tend not to believe the hype around big blockbuster movies. I wait to see them myself and judge then. If anything I’m turned off by something that claims to have cost extraordinary amounts of money and to be the biggest selling movie of all time. Especially when I’ve seen some wonderful films that cost very little. However, I thought Avatar was brilliant. At 2 hours 40 minutes, it’s long but not once did it falter. The story is engaging, the acting superb, the special effects…well, they are so incredible I thought it all looked real. You forget you are watching CGI. The Na’vi are so real, so utterly convincing, that you feel their pain and their love for their planet. A masterpiece of cinema. I couldn’t fault it at all. I particularly liked the Na’vi Rough Guide! Cute.
Last night we watched a very different movie. We watched Did You Hear About the Morgans?. It, honestly, could not be more different. It stars Sarah Jessica Parker (who I normally can’t stand) and Hugh Grant and is a RomCom. I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised. Apart from the two assistants, I thought it was very witty with Parker and Grant playing well off each other. The two second leads (Sam Elliott and Mary Steenburgen) were wonderful and shone a little brighter. If you like a RomCom, you’ll like this a lot. Even if you don’t like Sarah Jessica Parker!
What a lovely photo and what a small bit of land they are on.
Tracey gave me Avatar but have not watched it yet.
love mum
Funny how G says he prefers to wait and see a film before deciding his opinion. If true at all, this is only true for block buster hypo movies. G is expert at giving his opinion on films, books and even other holiday locations without having any first hand experience of it whatsoever!
Ok, ok, I admit it. I am always more than happy to supply an opinion on something I’ve never seen, read, heard or thought about. I also admit having said that Avatar was rubbish before seeing it. I shall continue doing this because I think my opinion is worth hearing even if it’s based on no evidence whatsoever.
The thing is, when I have and express a bad opinion of something which I subsequently see, read, hear or think, if it turns out to be really good, I enjoy it all the more! See? My madness has a method.
Gary
Loved the ducklings!! Yes loved Avatar too but saw it 3D and after 2+ hours came out feeling like I’d had a day at Dream World!! giddy and nauseated!! Amazing special effects though!! I’m not a big fan of Sarah J P either, I don’t get the whole ‘ how gorgeous is she!! ‘ thing. I was quite pleased to see her in the first Sex and the city movie, in one scene where she’s devastated with no makeup looking absolutely hideous with a face like a horse!! also she didn’t even carry her own twins but left some other poor female to do all the hard stuff!! I think the other 3 girls are far more attractive! Enjoyed the 2nd movie recently even though the friend I went with had a bad case of diarrhoea and had to keep hobbling off to the toilet!! ( hobbling because she’d just had knee surgery and didn’t have time to use her crutches!! ) Enjoying some time at M and Ds with the kids, FREEZING HERE!!! Mums fountain still had ice in it at 1pm!! Love to u both and fuzzies, Fi.xx
Yay, Fi! Finally. Excellent. I now have quite a vivid picture of your friend hobbling in and out of a cinema betwixt and between the toilet and Sex in the City. Vivid, I say!
Wouldn’t mind some of that cold you’re having…
Gary
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