Movie watching

Reading time: < 1 min Went to see Intolerable Cruelty. Two words. Cary Grant. Clooney was excellent, and holds the move together, the rest of the cast are OK, but Zeta-Jones never really convinces enough. Script-wise it was excellent with some wonderful lines lost amongst some mediocre performances. More >>

Peter poses a pickled peck…

Reading time: < 1 min Peter asks : why do blogs almost always read upwards? Well dear reader, why do they? Ohh and to the person who was looking for “poem about Scotland” – I hope you found what you were looking for… very persistent aren’t you.

26 Things 2

Reading time: < 1 min Hmmm, time to get my thinking cap on again… 26 Things : The Photographic Scavenger Hunt is back with version 2. I don’t think I did too badly the first time, so think I might enter this years…

Intolerable Cruelty

Reading time: < 1 min Intolerable Cruelty Ahhh remember the good old days. Cary Grant, Doris Day, those wonderful Saturday afternoon movies. Well it appears they are back, and it appears George Clooney has been watching Cary Grant. A wonderful scripted film, let down only by a lacklustre performance by Catherine Zeta-Jones who never really convinces as the ‘bad dame’…

Something's a foot… (bridge)…

Reading time: < 1 min Some interesting proposals for a new footbridge over the Clyde. It will be right outside our office (if you check the People’s Crossing submission, ours is the office block 3 to the left of the road bridge on the right-hand side of the picture). Not sure which one I’d go for, but it is always…

The party

Reading time: < 1 min As promised. We arrived early, to help the hostess set things up, and to start drinking as early as possible of course. We got there about 8pm, and were greeted at the door. The host and hostess had pretty much everything done, so we posed for photos and started drinking. I was going to wear…