"Nothing but the rain"
I am rather proud of the run I did today. It was 4.85 miles, which isn’t the main thing. The thing I am most impressed with is that I ran around Burham Nature Reserve which is comething I’ve been meaning to do for a while. It was also rather hot today (26C).
[There was an iframe here that was linked to my MapMyRun account. But I have deleted the MapMyRun account. This is no more.]
This is a picture of the monument to the Battle of the Medway. Not to be confused with the Battle of the Midway!
This was taken by WW while out on a run today.
Beautiful [just like WW].
Such a lovely morning spent walking the dog and children in Cobtree Park. The various tree species make it such a wonderful place. #1 loved it, I think #2 did too. WW had a good time.
Recently, #1 has taken to placing some of our garden stones on to the window ledge. He always asks to place three stones on the ledge and then does so.
I am officially a member of the Michel Vaillant club, I think.
I have the letter but I need to read it, carefully and slowly! I don’t really speak French. If I really struggle then I’ll ask some people at work to read it for me. We have many language specialists!
Lovely weather at the moment. The rest of the country is on flood alert! About 20 minutes to get home. Will I make it home dry? This is what’s coming for me:
Nearly home! Think I’m going to make it.
It’s raining now. Been home about 15 minutes. Job done.
This is the rain shower I just missed. It’s sunny now! You might like the double rainbow!
The picture should be quite evident. It started as a quarter of a slice of bread with peanut butter on it. Then #2 got hold of it!
Nice birds wandering by on my dog walk.
Here’s what #1 took to nursery today.
Here’s today’s toy that #1 took to nursery.
Just downloaded the eponymously titled Vixen from iTunes. I have four observations:
Here’s a flower that my son picked for me. It was beautiful.
What a lovely view. This was taken from the top of Rotary Hill.
I have some serious issues with Prometheus! About two months ago I saw a trailer and knew nothing else about it. Wow, space stuff with Ridley Scott! That’ll be a really interesting film then. Put head into “protect” mode and don’t look at anything connected to ensure the pure film experience. Persuade wife that it’ll be a great film to see on one of the three times a year we get out to the cinema. Booked the tickets online and as far in advance as I could, even coughed up for gallery seats at Bluewater cinema. Now I could say I’m not grumbling but about GBP45 for two cinema tickets is a bit steep, even for a double leather sofa and as much coffee as you can drink. I even booked a 3D viewing and I think that is mostly a con.
The actual day came along and I was still persuading WW that it’ll be ok and not that scary or gory as it’s only a 15. Little did I know how horrified I was going to be.
Glasses – got
Free nachos – got
Free celebrations – got
Free coffee – got
Adverts and trailers – over.
Film start. So excited.
Big white man, ok. Ancient drawings point to a star system, yeah, bullshit but ok. Man, that looks good. The whole thing just looks so bloody sexy. Oh, he’s a robot, others sleeping, seen it before but it still looks good. Everyone wakes up and ok. Still looking good.
Let’s go and land, and just drop the ship down without circling around and scanning for a little while – now I’m starting to hurt a bit. I’m not sure it would happen like that.
Hold on. You wouldn’t do that. Film looks gorgeous. Oh dear, I think they are losing it a bit. Why don’t you map the building before going in. Why take your helmet off? Why try to pet an alien worm creature? Oh shit. I think this is causing cognitive dissonance. Wait until end of film, try to cope and tally the expectation with the experience.
I have spent the last two weeks reading reviews of this film. I have tried to find out why it was causing me so much pain and I think it comes down to the fact that it was shit. Ridley Scott has made a gorgeous looking film but the script and story line we probably just ideas on post-its that were thrown in the air and those that landed upwards were kept. It was shit.
So, so very disappointing. For a film that looks so lovely it stank. I would recommend you go and watch – Moon. It’s far better and greater in terms of everything.
I want to thank George Hrab for his thirty one minutes of PrometheusBoo on his podcast. He managed to say everything I couldn’t because I’m still in shock. I would also like to point out that this review here is a crock of shit. Man, I could link any film you care to mention to Jesus and the message of Christianity.
Oh, it still hurts. I still can’t juxtapose the gorgeousnous of the film with just how much it stank.
Here’re the cakes onto which went the Jazzles!
Here’s a snail that #1 was looking at in his “creature peeper”.
It doesn’t get better than this! Apart from an airshow or motor race I guess. This morning I’ve been playing playdoh with #1. It’s great. Later we’ll be making rice crispy cakes with chocolate. Such a shame the weekend has to end.
So, after a few weeks this is how the vegetable patch is starting to look. There’s cabbage and maize.
And here’s our tomato collection. The problem is how to stop the dog eating the ripe toms.
Along with the veg patch we are now growing cress in the kitchen. Really looking forward to harvest time.
A friend of WW made this lovely hanging basket for us. Nice.
