Afscheid Paula

Archers Messageboarders in London

Birthday Boy

Jezus loves my bike

Unfortunately I forgot to make a photo of the title text above, which is also one I embroidered on a jacket at the new year reception of the Harley club yesterday.

New Sporrans

Klaas and Rens of course stole the show at the new year party with their new sporrans. But Paula's party frock certainly did me proud too.

We need to talk about Kevin

It began badly when the woman introducing the film got the title wrong. It never really got any better. I know that film versions of brilliant books often disappoint but this one was even worse than Even Cowboys Get the Blues. Despite excellent casting it never managed to even touch on the central theme of the book which was all about the choice to have children or not and the nature/nurture debate. It was also far too long. Endless shots of people in waiting rooms had me verging on leaving several times. A good editor could at least have carried out some damage limitation on this disastrously bad film version of one of my favourite books of recent years.
(The photo was taken by Maaike in the bar beforehand when we were still reasonably cheery...)

Finnegan's Wake Film

Went to see this film tonight. Forgot to take a photo whilst there but can surely borrow one from Maaike's blog later...yep, mission accomplished.
There was an entertaining intro from the 2 men who did the nigh on impossible job of translating the book into Dutch.