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And the point is? Granted it is nice to catch up with people to know they are still happy and alive and - 'gowin out fr a drnk 2tnght and gonna get steamin' or rat arsed' becos they R so fed up with men or life or wimmin.

Otherwise the point is what? I'm not being a misery honest. It is just that the darn thing takes forever to load up and then - nix- rein- pas du tout! I am flattered that post nubile 22 year old ladies want an older man (can't stop laughing now) to date and that I get invitations to gigs that I would be seen as ancient at. lol

I am currently reading Yes Man by Danny Wallace. Maybe I should just go to these gigs!? Wadd'ya reckon? I could be smokin' on the dance floor with my moves from the 70's.Move it Grandad! Hey, didn't U used 2 be Leo Sayer?

I have come to the conclusion that I have a habit that I can only describe as watching 'comfort dvds'. There are times when I feel tired or just in the need to relax and I will go for one of my dvd collection that could come under this heading. It is usually Rick Stein's French Odyssey. I love Rick's programmes and this particular series makes me feel that I have been on the barge trip through South West France with him. I have watched it countless times - at least twenty or thirty times and never tire of it. I have a few other ones I like to watch regularly but Rick's is number one for me.

Anbody else have any dvds they would see as 'comfort dvds' or am I alone in this?

I used to have a typewriter many years ago and made so many spelling mistakes known as typos as I was learning to write creatively.In these days of blogging and the internet and computers I only have one thing to say.

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... Phil Lowe!

Speech: Oh wow (gulps back tears) thankyou Bafta! I've never been happier than when I'm watching films and now I can sell this lovely Bafta award on eBay so I can afford to see even more films. I have a few people to thank. I (gulps back more tears)want to thank Kate Winslet for being so talented and utterly gorgeous. I have all your dvds Kate. Pop round later and you can have them back. (cut to kate laughing)Thanks too to my late Father for first taking me to the pictures to see Ben Hur, the first big screen film I ever saw. Or was it The Wizard of Oz? Dorothy and that chariot pulled by Toto - amazing! Also (starts blubbing happy tears)Kate Winslet -oh no said that already - erm - Slumdog Millionaire!(awards ceremony erupts with applause for the umpteenth time).

Fantastic film! What a story! Brad Pitt and Angelina struggle to survive in Mumbai by working in a call centre and singing songs by Abba. Terrific!

Thankyou Bafta for my Dafta award and for making me the happiest cinema goer and the most confused.

I am intrigued. Obviously animals can think otherwise they wouldn't carry out un-thinkable actions like scratching my furniture (next door's cat) or sniffing other dogs bums (any random dog on a walk) but the question that intrigues me lately is: what language do they think in?

Do we assume that they too think in the human language? If the goldfish lives with a multi-lingual human family can it think in those languages too or just goldfish language? If you want your moggy to learn another language where can you get those elusive 'Animals guides to thinking in German/French/Spanish' ?

Your thoughts are urgently needed on this dilemma

In remembering a soft cheek and a sweet face.

I kissed thy cheek
And melted as the night
Doth melt into the day.
O’er thy soft flesh
My aching soul did brush
And fall into your spell.
And parting thus didst
Clamour for another chance
To taste the ecstasy of thy beauty.

Phil Lowe

PS: this was about someone I fancied a few years ago. Alas I wasn't met with similar feelings. lol

Being an old time fan of Les Miserables the musical I was amazed to discover that there is a schools edition that schools are allowed to perform (shortened to approx 2 hours long) and that the Nottingham Arts Theatre are staging this next week in my city. I had no idea that this existed and may well go along to see it performed next week. I am curious to see how well this can be done.

The proper London West End production is what I know best and having listened again to a full cast recording with all those powerful professional voices on disc I wonder how it can possibly be done well by children and young adults (up to 19 years max) in an amateur theatre or school setting.I am very supportive of kids being being introduced to and involved in drama and musicals but still unsure of them portraying very tormented characters like Javert or characters of great humanity and depth such as Jean Valjean. I look forward to being proved wrong and will blog my critique next week. Here are the official guidelines which I found on the net tonight.

http://www.josef-weinberger.com/weinberger/lesmizframes.html

I smiled as the cows were herded through the town in last night's programme and wondered what would happen if someone tried to herd a bunch of large animals, cows, sheep etc through a modern shopping mall!

Mooooo! 'Sorry sir, they can't go into Boots.'

I'm really looking foward to a bit of snow as it means I can get out and about with my camera and take some interesting pictures.

How do other folk feel about the possibly of lots of white stuff?