pans labyrinth

has anybody seen this film? any good?
to be honest it looks a bit scary for me
apparently it’s still on at the Odeon 5:15 Mon – Thurs
so in the unlikely event that i get the hang of this flexi time lark, i might even get to see it!

….. some posts later, as to whether a faun or pan and level of political allegory
………..
is it a satire? or a satyr? oh no legs and co, pans people, i sound more like Mitchelmore.
It does sound really good, but far too scary for me!
are there any RomComs on at the mo, maybe one with Hugh Grant?

michael caine

i nearly posted this one, couldnae decide

lunchtime waffle…

oooh. is there a website where you can find out who shares your birthday? That would be very useful!
I know that my little niece shares the same birthday as Stalin… the resemblance is startling!
but thats about it

as for maurice mickelwhite(?) i predfer the top piccie of him, the bottom one is more obviously iconic, but in the top he looks much more flawed, human

far from swigging champers in the south of france, he is often to be found in the leatherhead branch of B&Q, purchasing formica shelving units, or some such, as he has a mansion quite near my parents (stellar street?) in leatherhead

in fact his wife was once chased by Donald McCloud (my folks lovely old pooch) across Leatherhead golf course, right into a bunker!

actually this isn’t totally true at all, Donald in fact chased that New Zealand Opera singer woman
Dame Kiri Te Kwanawa… and not Mrs Caine
It wasn’t that Iceland mum, Kerry Kattona? or Eric Cantonna either. oh well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries
And click on the relevant date.

brilliant!
i am
Willy Messcherschmidt
Jay Silverheels (who he?)
and Gilberto Gil

A Frisbee day or a Kite day?

kite

gadzooks. a gale.
isn’t it wonderful!
who needs champagne when you’ve the sploosh splosh froth of an exuberant Ocean!
I abandoned bike and walked in, doing the ladder lean into the wind
certain programmers complain of having their face blown off!
I shook my fist at the sea and trudged along
The painter Turner used to insist on being tied to a ships mast and sailing straight into a storm. nutter
can’t see the Marina Fishing fleet agreeing, tho’ they do have fantastic tattered bin bag flags

can still tatse the salt sea spray. yum
……………
oh dear. that sounds horrible
glad it wasn’t worse

here you are with your pet bin

……….
the ladder lean? I don’t think its a proper phrase? …yet
but why it’s obvious, pure Monty Pythagoras, with, i guess, You the hypotenuse?
You have to lean into the wind, as far far forward as possible, pretend your ski jump champ, Eddie the Eagle!

leaning sideways would encourage toppling over, that would be plain daft!
Do try it, ’tis good fun…. but top tip not on a cliff top

all these garments coming alive is just like the finale of Bed Knobs and Broomsticks!

The North Berwick witches used to tie a knot in their hankies, as a spell for the wind
and every time a prayer flag flaps it sends a prayer up to heaven. inspired holy laziness!

‘Idiot Wind’, we all need an indian style name
When we were trekking in the Andes, Flaps was ‘Turd treader’, whilst i was ‘Cloud Sniffer’
… curiously i did the naming

namaste

Namaste
everybody greets you on the mountain trails in the Himalayas in this way, it’s sweet

Young Wangchuck, bless ‘im, once told me that when buddhists make the hands together in prayer gesture,
they are actually cupping their hands in a symbol to contain the light of our buddha soul.
look down into the space created between your thumbs and you can see the expansive, transcending gleam of the ‘jewell in the lotus’

… kinda like a koh-i-noor cuppa soup?