Today is the first birthday of my weblog. I think it has been a successful year of 'blogging'. Here's to the next 365 days!
Also celebrating his birthday this week was Griff. He turned 31 on the 29th of March. Marla and I took him to lunch to celebrate.
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Underrated Movie No. 2...
It seems amazing to me that my "Underrated Movie No. 1..." post was all the way back in October! How time flies. Makes it all the more important for me to keep writing in my weblog before everything we do in life becomes a blurred memory.
I watched Thirteen Days on Tuesday. What a great movie. For those who have not seen it, I highly recommend it. It stars Kevin Costner, but don't let that put you off, he is actually very good in it. In fact his performance is the pillar around which this strong movie is built. It tells the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the point of view of the Kennedy brothers and JFK's chief advisor, Ken O'Donnell (played by Costner). As I understand it, the movie is largely historically accurate, and it shows how close the world came to nuclear war. It's hard to categorise the movie; it is part political thriller, part historic recreation, even part documentary. However, regardless of your taste in movies, given the real-life story and superb film-making it is hard to see how anyone could dislike this film.
I watched Thirteen Days on Tuesday. What a great movie. For those who have not seen it, I highly recommend it. It stars Kevin Costner, but don't let that put you off, he is actually very good in it. In fact his performance is the pillar around which this strong movie is built. It tells the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the point of view of the Kennedy brothers and JFK's chief advisor, Ken O'Donnell (played by Costner). As I understand it, the movie is largely historically accurate, and it shows how close the world came to nuclear war. It's hard to categorise the movie; it is part political thriller, part historic recreation, even part documentary. However, regardless of your taste in movies, given the real-life story and superb film-making it is hard to see how anyone could dislike this film.
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Reds beat blues...
Once again a week passes between posts on my weblog. For me the most important thing that has happened since last post is that Liverpool beat Everton 2-1 in the second Merseyside derby of the season. It was a great game with much incident... Liverpool suffered four injuries and a sending off but still managed to hold on for the win. The local rivalry took on extra importance this time because the two teams are fighting for 4th place in the Premiership and the coveted 4th Champions League place for next season. Now Liverpool are only 4 points behind Everton with eight games remaining in the season. Could be a close finish.
Other goings on... we helped Rachael move a sofa into her flat on Monday night. We probably made quite a sight, me, Andy & Paul walking along London Road carrying a sofa. The Bath Half-Marathon was held on Sunday so I went down to Green Park Station to watch the runners go by and listen to Samba Sulis (the samba band that my parents are a part of) bang out their rhythms. The runners really love the drumming and many of them give thumbs up or clap as they run past.
On Friday I/we will be taking Andy and Fi to Heathrow for their flight to New York. I am extremely jealous of the trip they are taking. We've been to New York once (on our way home from our honeymoon in Cape Cod) but were only able to spend about an hour there before having to catch the Staten Island ferry back to our car.
Other goings on... we helped Rachael move a sofa into her flat on Monday night. We probably made quite a sight, me, Andy & Paul walking along London Road carrying a sofa. The Bath Half-Marathon was held on Sunday so I went down to Green Park Station to watch the runners go by and listen to Samba Sulis (the samba band that my parents are a part of) bang out their rhythms. The runners really love the drumming and many of them give thumbs up or clap as they run past.
On Friday I/we will be taking Andy and Fi to Heathrow for their flight to New York. I am extremely jealous of the trip they are taking. We've been to New York once (on our way home from our honeymoon in Cape Cod) but were only able to spend about an hour there before having to catch the Staten Island ferry back to our car.
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Tuesday night and all's well...
You may or may not be pleased to learn that there were no casualties from the recent charity events (other than Griff's chest hair that is!). In front of an audience of up to 20 of Griff's work colleagues he managed to endure the waxing without crying (or so he tells us). And Paul's abseil went very well indeed, in fact he looked decidedly accomplished at it for someone who has never done it before... and I think he raised £200 or so. For anyone that is interested there are photos of the event at Paul's website.
Marla and I booked tickets for our May-June trip to Chicago last night. After scouring the Internet looking at flights costing a minimum of £810 we managed to find flights on the KLM website for only £500! Amazing really. We found them at www.travelsupermarket.com - and are thankful indeed. We will be in Chicago from the 23rd of May to the 5th of June and are hoping to see as many of our friends as possible as well as Marla's family.
Incidentally, I say in my post title that all's well. That's not entirely true. We just got back from the pub where we watched a 0-0 draw between Liverpool and Blackburn Rovers. Quite a flat game that may have put 4th place out of reach for Liverpool.
Marla and I booked tickets for our May-June trip to Chicago last night. After scouring the Internet looking at flights costing a minimum of £810 we managed to find flights on the KLM website for only £500! Amazing really. We found them at www.travelsupermarket.com - and are thankful indeed. We will be in Chicago from the 23rd of May to the 5th of June and are hoping to see as many of our friends as possible as well as Marla's family.
Incidentally, I say in my post title that all's well. That's not entirely true. We just got back from the pub where we watched a 0-0 draw between Liverpool and Blackburn Rovers. Quite a flat game that may have put 4th place out of reach for Liverpool.
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Masters degrees and chest waxing...
This is a late night post (late night is relative of course, some people stay up until 3:00am whereas 11:00pm is late for me) just to keep the weblog ticking over. Since my last post Liverpool FC lost the Carling Cup final to Chelsea in what was actually a great game of football - final score was 3-2, with the game having gone into extra time. Liverpool did however qualify for the quater-final of the European Cup (or is the called the UEFA Champions League these days?) with a 3-1 win over Leverkeusen last night - making the aggregate score 6-2.
Other things going on... well, Marla has a big presentation tomorrow for her Masters degree. We've just spent the last 45 minutes going over it. She's pretty confident and even though I didn't understand 75% of the presentation, she certainly appears to know her stuff.
Amongst our friends there are a couple of fund-raising activities worth mentioning. Tomorrow Griff is having his chest hair waxed for Comic Relief (a BBC charity event). I'm planning to open the window at work at about 11:00am just in case the sound of his screams carry the 20 or so miles to Bath. Then on Saturday Paul is doing an abseil down the cliffs of the Avon Gorge for charity - we'll be there, four of us holding a blanket at each corner just in case he falls!
Other things going on... well, Marla has a big presentation tomorrow for her Masters degree. We've just spent the last 45 minutes going over it. She's pretty confident and even though I didn't understand 75% of the presentation, she certainly appears to know her stuff.
Amongst our friends there are a couple of fund-raising activities worth mentioning. Tomorrow Griff is having his chest hair waxed for Comic Relief (a BBC charity event). I'm planning to open the window at work at about 11:00am just in case the sound of his screams carry the 20 or so miles to Bath. Then on Saturday Paul is doing an abseil down the cliffs of the Avon Gorge for charity - we'll be there, four of us holding a blanket at each corner just in case he falls!
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