Sunday again...
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Date: 20 April 2008 10:00:18
I know it is slack of me to only update my blog on Sunday mornings, but it seems to be when I feel most inspired to do it!
On Sunday evening we watched Jindabyne, which is a really rubbish indy film with Laura Linney. Perhaps I have a lack of understanding of the issues the film explores, or perhaps the plot really is as poor as I felt it was...
On Monday night I managed to win the poker at the City Gate, had a few lucky hands and a few bluffs (although perhaps I should not tell you that in case any of the guys ore reading!)
Tuesday was a quieter night meeting up with Darren and Dave for a drink.
Wednesday was afternoon off, so we drove down to Darts Farm for some fish and chips and to pick up some nice food, we then strolled around Topsham and Ivonne played with her new SLR camera. Even by the time we got home the weather was glorious so we sat in the garden of the Mill on the Exe pub and Ivonne took some more pictures...
If you look closely you can see me reading...
I had just started reading The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, and I just finished it last night, it is a really excellent book and I am looking forward to seeing the film now, and also reading some more of his books! That evening we watched Infamous - the second Truman Capote film of 2 years ago! It was really good, and although covered much of the same material as Capote have a very different tone and spin on the story. I would be interested to watch them both together and compare them, I would hate to judge which I prefer at this stage.
Thursday we met up with Nick and Sarah at Wagamama (2-4-1 vouchers!) and then caught up with each other with a few drinks.
Friday was spent in eating some of the nice food we had bought at Darts farm, then we watched a French film on DVD called My Best Friend, a film about a person who realised he has no friends, and tries to discover what makes friendship and how to go about making friends. Perhaps not the most original idea, but rather charming and enjoyable all the same. In fact many of the themes of the film are dealt with in The Remains of the Day, both have central characters that have no depth of relationships and feel awkward in social situations, in both they discover something of what friendship is, and think that the social skills to make friends can be “learnt” in some way.
Yesterday afternoon was a pottering around day, managed to get the internet (and the BBC iplayer) working on the Wii (to an extent anyway!) and ate way too much dinner!
That was my week, I will try and blog before next Sunday, but no promises...