My lady and I went to the Myramar Cinesur last evening to see "The Conjuring". It was a horror, sorry horror film. No, I was right the first time, it was a horror. Remember the film "Amityville Horror" some years ago, which spawned a dozen very similar movies? Well, this is a carbon copy. Usual spooky effects and things moving ete etc etc etc. The one redeeming feature was the fact that the special effects were good. We paid 18€ for the two of us, I could have bought 18 buckets of golf balls at the local driving range with that money, and consider that that would have been better value !
According to the press here the new La Cala speed trap, with no warnings of its position, has 'caught' 7000 drivers since it was put up two weeks ago. I'm sure the police are very happy with their new money earner....
Good to see England doing so well at the cricket. For myself I have always considered cricket to be organised loafing! An American I know reckons cricket is basically baseball on Valium. He said the first time he watched a match he waited three hours for it to start. Still, for Brits it's an institution, I once saw an advert in The Times, it read: ' Wanted Curate for country parish, slow left-arm bowler preferred'.
I see that the UK Government has reneged on making BAT and the other tobacco manufacturers have plain packaging on their filthy products. I do so hope that none of the cabinet see any of their children getting hooked on cigarettes, and watching them die a slow lingering death in hospital as they fill buckets with their lung discharges as I had to do with my poor father. In his day it was fashionable to smoke, they even told him and his peers it was good for them. Today there is no such excuse, and Cameron and his cronies, who put wealth and vested interests before all other considerations, ought to be ashamed of themselves. For every daft person who says 'my uncle Sid smoked 50 a day and lived to be a hundred and two', the medical profession can show you a million who died prematurely of smoking related diseases.
I went to get a key cut today at the local hardware store. It never ceases to amaze me that people who are good at cutting keys are also good at repairing shoes. It must be in the genes.....
Kids play at being all sorts of things, firemen, doctors, astronauts, etc but you never hear of one pretending to be an accountant do you? Similarly, I often think that Estate Agents are failed Used Car Salesmen.
My mother wanted my sister Molly, who turned 80 last Thursday, to become a nun. Her rationale was that it was steady work, she was married to God whom she knew would stay off of the drink, and would be home every night.
My latest released novel "The Wednesday Women" is just going into its second print, and I've completed over 90,000 words on the last book of the trilogy "The Saturday Pledge", I estimate I have about another 70,000 to go.
Apparently in Russia these days they only have 2 TV channels. Channel One is propaganda put out by Putin, and Channel Two just has a still picture of Putin and a caption that says, "Go back immediately to Channel One or the secret police will pay you a visit!"
On the subject of television, an American author whom I admire said he watched Norwegian TV once, it sort of gave him the sensation of being in a coma without all the worry and inconvenience.
Placido Domingo.