It was a beautiful day here in Londontown.  It’s been fining up nicely with cold temps in the morning, but warm in the midday/afternoon.  With weather like this, we would have been silly to waste it moping around the house.  So we took the new camera for a walk.  We dawdled down towards Canary Wharf, which is surprisingly close to my house (about a 20min walk, if we were walking properly).  It still amazes me how small London actually is, but how long it takes to get anywhere!

We wandered around the shops at Canary Wharf for a while, had some dinner at Nandos (haven’t done that in ages) and then headed back to Whitechapel to see a movie.  We caught the D3 bus from Canary – Whitechapel, and I cannot believe how long it took.  Not only did we have to wait 20 minutes for it to come, we spent 40 mins on the bus, 15 of it stuck in traffic! Grr, what a waste of time! We would have been faster to walk!  That’s the other crazy thing.  London may be small, but it takes forever to get anywhere!

Anyway, we saw The Boat that Rocked which had a fantastic cast.  Not just with Bill Nighy, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, but also the very fantastic Rhys Darby, who was playing a character not too dissimilar from Murray. But we loved him anyway.  Set in the 1960s about a pirate radio station on a freighter in the North Sea, I really enjoyed it – definitely a good laugh.

The view from our veranda

Current Mood: creative

Ohhh what a hard day! We got 4 hours of sleep, and then were up to take Kathy to a movie (Maid of Honour) for Mothers Day. Good movie. No plot, but entertaining all the same. We took Kathy home, and said goodbye to Kylie. It’s the last time I’ll see her for a while, though she’s coming to Europe for a few weeks soon. Read more…

I wanna watch!

From Stuff.co.nz

By TOM CARDY – The Dominion Post | Wednesday, 16 May 2007

Blistering barnacles! Peter Jackson has teamed up with Hollywood heavyweight Steven Spielberg to make three Tintin movies, with cutting-edge visual effects to be created by Wellington’s Weta Digital.

Jackson and Spielberg are likely to each direct at least one of the big-budget films, based on three of the 23 Tintin comic books. Read more…

I told Ants how I was feeling after my weigh-in today. He brings me home a small box of roses chocolates for my Valentines day present *sigh*. That’s so supportive. It didn’t help my mood much so what happens? Comfort eating. We only ate half the box, but because we went to the movies and used our cine-lounge tickets, we could have as much popcorn and drink as we wanted. I tried not to have too much, but feeling blah about my weight, I thought ‘why not? I haven’t done this before’. So Ants and I ate a carton each. Not good. And to top it off, I can’t go to the gym coz I rolled my ankle yesterday. Read more…

Finally finally, Ants and I got to see 'Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan'!!  We also had sushi for dinner

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Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz

It’s another world centre for another world premiere of another New Zealand-made, Hollywood-backed movie.
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By Karen Arnold

They stood, they applauded, they whooped and hollered ““ and the movie hadn’t even started. Read more…

Ants and I went to see Charlie and the Chocolate factory tonight. Read more…