Paddy gets hit by a bus so Murphy and Mick go to identify the body. Murphy turns Paddy over looks at his bum and says that's not Paddy. Mick does the same and says to Murphy you're right that's not Paddy. The Mortician asks How do you know by looking at his bum? Murphy replies every time we went down the pub everyone would say here comes Paddy with the two a**eholes
Have recently got 3 new hens, and decided to name them Diana, Mary and Florence after the original members of the Supremes...mine are of course, the Chicken Supremes. They are Jersey Giant/Bantams which seems like an odd thing to breed - a small version of the biggest chicken breed in the world.
I'm off to my friend's small country house tomorrow to pick up some chicken, duck and goose eggs. Apparently all they do is lay ****ing eggs and his fridge has no more space. Their names are those ****ing birds that **** all over the place. I get the feeling he's losing interest in the "good life"
The Grim Reaper came for me last night, and I beat him off with a vacuum cleaner. Talk about Dyson with death
I keep them behind a fence separating off the last 50ft of the garden so they don't get to make a mess in the majority of it. They can be a problem unless you are able to restrict where they go.
Watched two films this evening. 1] My Life as a Courgette a delightful 60+ minute stop-action animated film about abandonment, lost love and dreams from a child's perspective. It's French in origin, but I watched an English dubbed version which was entirely fine, until after the end credits finished. Then there was a minute in the original French, and I think I would have preferred it, with a little subtitle aid, as the French child's voice was totally genuine and not as if a trained child actor was saying the lines. There's a genuine melancholy about it which live action would probably find hard to sustain without people balling into handkerchiefs or slitting their wrists. The animation just keeps it light enough to keep the viewer gripped. Cleverly done and a million miles from Hollywood and, say... Spielberg at his most schmaltzy. Anyway, Oscar nominated, and really recommended from me. Apparently Mark Kermode loves it too, and I can see why. 2] was The Bourne Legacy. I've been meaning to watch this one for well over a year or so now and never got around to it. I even watched the latest Matt Damon iteration last year and gave this one a miss. Now that I've watched it I'm kind of glad I left it. Because it's pretty damn good. At least the leads, Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz are very good in it. There's quite a bit too much of the supporting cast overtly dramatic jargon that Americans love to trot out in films, which spills over into real life news broadcasts. They love to say that some place is "in lockdown", when they mean that an area has been secured. Or they say "shooter", when they know the male gender and don't say gunman. "Chems" and "meds" come up all the time. What time is everybody trying to save by not saying chemicals and medicines.? And there are a host of other clichéd words and phrases in the script that make me want to vomit. But this is the USA and you have to put up with it. I'm afraid I don't find it hip. I find it very dumbed down. Which is a shame because the film is actually very entertaining on the whole with its action packed sequences and changes of location. It lacks the class and gravitas of a genuine Matt Damon headed Bourne film but it's no pale shadow either. And I won't say recommended as there would be no point. I'm almost certainly the last person to see it who ever intended to do so. In between these films I watched the Film Review on Beeb 2 and the DVD mentioned there I can heartily recommend, because I already watched it last year. The Founder, starring the brilliant Michael Keaton. The true story of the MacDonald brothers who invented fast food burgers and got the idea slowly plucked from their grasp by a travelling salesman called Ray Kroc. The film was unsuccessful at the box-office, which is a shame because watching it might have severely reduced the takings of that unscrupulous company. A very good film and true story. Funnily enough, the Film Review reviewed ...Courgette too. They also liked it.
Have fun! I've just travelled north of the border and am now in deepest Ulster. Still trying to dry out (alcohol wise) from 3 days in Dublin!
Just got myself a central European cleaner and it took her 5 hours to hoover the house. It turns out she's a Slovak
I really enjoyed The Bourne Legacy but I'm a bit of a Jeremy Renner fan; he's also one of the producers of The Founder which is on my to-watch list.
Potted some plants, painted the BBQ (2 coats) and just having a mint tea with mint from the garden, in the sun. The smell of the tea is so relaxing.....
My niece started a film documentary a couple of years ago about that wonderful community amenity, the Lido. She's just completed it to tie in with the re-opening of one of the pools. Lots of local history here in a half-hour film. Give it a try:
