Saturday 19 January 2013

I'm Back!


My son gently and tactfully reminded me that I hadn't written a blog for sometime by pointing out the number of posts were falling. An old friend Bryan once quoted on his blog a Mark Twain witticism: "I you have nothing to say, say nothing." I guess I have plenty to say, the issue is, would it be of interest to anyone else! Then - everything happens at once!

Great blogger and writer Paula Readman has had a short story published on a site called CafeLit titled  'Cold Calling' - it's a stunning short -  read it and be chilled!!!Read her blog here.

I was at a friends last night having returned in thick falling snow from the cinema in Hull from seeing Les Miserables. I hadn't been particularly interested in seeing the film because the trailers showed it to be - well - miserable: revolutionary, dark, wet, people crying and dying in poverty, something wonderful to lift the spirit!

In fact this was a super cinematic production of popular theatre culture. I knew nothing of the story and had never been to see the stage production but the film was an absolute delight with all the emotions coming into play at one time or another. The ensemble cast were excellent and the singing was great, even from Russell Crowe (of whom one critic said, he couldn't sing.) If Hugh Jackman as the lead Jean Valjean  doesn't win award after award for his performance, I would be very surprised and disappointed.

The singing was done 'live' on film rather than being dubbed, I don't know what the technical term for this is but it's a rare technique in musical film and the resulting emotions the actors gave to their parts whilst singing was very moving indeed.  Rated at 12A, thoroughly recommended.

There was one spoiler and that wasn't on the screen, it was two young women sat behind us a few rows back who were talking and giggling throughout the film. Anger got the best of me at the end as the closing credits began to roll and people were getting ready to go, I stood up, looked directly at them and in a voice loud enough for several rows to hear I told them what I thought of them (no swearing - remain dignified at all times) and perhaps the cartoon in the next cinema would be more suitable for them. Needless to say they hurriedly exited heads down before everyone else. Fortunately, I had several murmurings of support.


Leaving my friends house around two a.m. this morning, a fox slowly trotted by along the footpath in the thick snow as I exited the door. Nothing unusual in that you may think and I've seen many foxes in that area, but it almost immediately sat down in the middle of the footpath and curled up. I had my trusty point and shoot Lumix and took a few pictures of it. It allowed me to get within ten feet of it before sauntering off a few yards and curling up once more. I saw lots of other foxes on my way home foraging for food and I think this one I saw close to had probably been breeding and was too tired to run off!

I have no cliche photographs of the snow - decided not to take any unless I saw something unusual. We've had our first major dollop of snow as mentioned above and today, most of it is still around although it's wet. The main danger comes from ice and freezing that goes with it. The next lot is forecast for Sunday night, just in time for the commute to work on Monday morning, hey ho.

Chat soon

Ta-ra

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  1. Hi RLS. You were right to complain to the giggling/chattering females in the cinema. We Brits are too tolerant sometimes and slow to complain. The same thing happened to a friend and I and my friend said in a big loud voice, "I suggest you wait until the DVD comes out and watch it at home." Silence followed.

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  2. Good to read you again RLS - and to see your superb fox photo. Urban foxes probably fare better this time of the year than ours do round here - there are plenty of dustbins to raid and people throw such a lot of food out.
    I have heard good reports of Les Miserables - if it wasn[t so treacherous on the roads here at present I would venture out to see it.

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  3. The fox was beautiful but with it running and stopping I had to think maybe it had foor problems? Oh well, I guess I'll never know. And BRAVO for telling the nitwits to be quiet!

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  4. Great to hear you enjoyed the film, so often they don't live up to what one hears about them. The fox was amazing picture. I've seen them in the wild where I live but you can't get close to them.

    Thank you for reading my story and I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

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  5. Hi Molly
    We don't complain much do we and we don't have to be nasty to do it either.XX

    Hi Weaver
    Les Mis will be about for a while - I would really recommend it - take hankies. XX

    Hi Donna
    Hope you are okay? Gripped in raw cold weather here. XX

    Hi Paula
    You are welcome great story - I'm re-reading Dracula at the moment, courtesy of a free download to my phone from Google, more gripping than I remember. XX

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  6. Hello sweetie, love your photos. We are looking forward to Les Mis this week, most prob on orange Wednesday xx

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  7. Hi Auntigwen - such a long time, i hope you are in top form, you will love Les Mis!
    xxxx

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  9. It's been a while for me too. Mainly because I realised I was getting a bit too grumpy, and being stuck in because of the weather didn't help. I prefer not to go on line when I'm in a dark mood.

    I've not learned to how to write to my advantage in that mood yet :)

    Our urban fox, Scraggy, who I fed, seems to have gone after all these years. I'm sad about that, but not surprised because urban foxs don't have a good rep. Locals complained they wanted him shot because he 'left footprints on their cars' (?)

    I think some people are just plain bonkers...

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