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Films and Outside
May. 12th, 2006 11:40 amIs the "update your journal" link from userpages text now or is my bit just broken?
I went to the cinema twice, to see Transamerica, which was lovely, and just really wonderful, and Confetti.
( Which is NOT HAPPY. )
Last night I watched Never Mind the Full Stops, which was mostly just dull, and partly insufficiently pedantic. Also, panellists putting an apostrophe in a possessive "its" isn't them being caught out, it's ridiculous ignorance when you're appearing on a programme about punctuation and language. And if asked the question "what is a malapropism", saying "oh, pineapple of perfection" is not an acceptable answer, ecen if you know about Mrs Malaprop. That could just as easily have been an example of obsessive alliteration, or using fruits inappropriately. I was thoroughly disappointed, not least because awful Carol Thatcher was on it.
We have flowers and herbs in our yard. I even helped to plant some of them. I am not really a gardeny/outside person, but they look really nice. Happily our collective outside creature distastes compliment each other, so that I cannot do worms, but am happy with snails and spiders, Jen is not particularly impressed with snails, but doesn't mind most other things, and Alice is not happy about spiders, but will do woodlouse for me when I accidentally uncover them under the washing machine. Oh, and we got an email quote for the washing machine! I was so happy. I hate calling people and asking them about things like that, and they had a website so we just sent in a query and they responded without anyone making me feel stupid for not understanding technical things.
I went to the cinema twice, to see Transamerica, which was lovely, and just really wonderful, and Confetti.
( Which is NOT HAPPY. )
Last night I watched Never Mind the Full Stops, which was mostly just dull, and partly insufficiently pedantic. Also, panellists putting an apostrophe in a possessive "its" isn't them being caught out, it's ridiculous ignorance when you're appearing on a programme about punctuation and language. And if asked the question "what is a malapropism", saying "oh, pineapple of perfection" is not an acceptable answer, ecen if you know about Mrs Malaprop. That could just as easily have been an example of obsessive alliteration, or using fruits inappropriately. I was thoroughly disappointed, not least because awful Carol Thatcher was on it.
We have flowers and herbs in our yard. I even helped to plant some of them. I am not really a gardeny/outside person, but they look really nice. Happily our collective outside creature distastes compliment each other, so that I cannot do worms, but am happy with snails and spiders, Jen is not particularly impressed with snails, but doesn't mind most other things, and Alice is not happy about spiders, but will do woodlouse for me when I accidentally uncover them under the washing machine. Oh, and we got an email quote for the washing machine! I was so happy. I hate calling people and asking them about things like that, and they had a website so we just sent in a query and they responded without anyone making me feel stupid for not understanding technical things.
