Goodbye winter

I am one of those rare folk who love winter and with a heavy heart I welcome in spring. Don't get me wrong I am not anti sunshine and pretty flowers. I appreciate them as much as the next man. But nothing compares to a winter wonderland countryside scene scene or the feel of the cold on your cheek. I love laying in bed listening to the wind and rain lashing my windows pure bliss! I love dark nights, which enable me to hibernate ad indulge my love of films with out feeling guilty. I come alive in winter and hibernate in summer. So till we meet again winter, I will miss you while you are away.

Angel News

As Angels body grows her confidence grows twice as fast! She is extremely active and I am convinced she only sleeps when I am at work. The girl as no fear, she has chewed through a live printer wire and found her way into the kitchen cupboard and refused to come out. She is going through a biting phase at the moment, which I am struggling to break, so any advice would be much appreciated. She has started doing a Meerkat impression when she wants to look out of the window, which is incredibly cute. Morrisons have had an offer of two boxes of Rice Crispies for £3, she has loved this as I always end up spilling some and sh spends hours chasing them across my flat. Morrisons also had an offer for Bob Martin Spot On for £2.10,which Angel did not enjoy me applying, her tail fluffed up.

bargin of the day

Found this book in the Oxfam shop for 99p and couldn't resist it. Ettiquete is a dying tradition and I would like to read about it before it dies completely! this book now lives under my coffee table for me to dip into!

The Other Boleyn Girl

This DVD was a massive disappointment to me. The casting was shockingly miscast, Natshcha Elhone was too old and pretty for the role of Mary and Jodhi May was too young for the role of Anne. It was filmed too modernly with shaky cameras and the camcorder confessionals were down right bizarre. Philipa Lowthorpe left all the good bits from the book out. The only good thing about the DVD was that it had Philip Glenister in it.

The Other Boleyn Girl- Phillipa Gregory

This book does what it says on the tin. Tells the story of Anne's sister, Mary. Who was used and abused by Henry VIII and was usurped from the kings side by her notorious sister. If there was a line you could measure humanity on Mary and Anne would be on the opposite end. Vastly different and brilliantly developed as characters by Gregory. I was secretly pleased when Anne's head was chopped off, as Gregory wasn't sympathetic towards Anne, she was portrayed as a power mad vixen . This has been the best book I have read in a long time. I've never read any historical fiction, and loved how modern the themes of the book are, it really reminded me of our culture of celebrity relationships! It was brimming with sex and scandal... I loved every word of it, there was not a single, boring page and I never wanted it to end! Can't wait too read more about the Tudor's.

Paul O'Grady- The Auto-Biography

I am probably breaking every book review rule here, but I am going to describe this book as OK. Nothing special but not bad either. There was a few laugh out loud parts to this book which i enjoyed. I loved the language Paul (if indeed he did write the book), I can only describe it as 'northern' and very familiar to me. My problem with modern autobiographies, and this one, is they are unbelievable, and blatantly biased. Also the market is saturated with celeb autobiography's, but none of them are original!

The Namesake

//http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433416/ It saddns me to say this is the biggest film disappointment I have seen this year. I was really looking forward to watching this but within 10 minutes I could tell this was a pants film. The main reason I strongly disliked it was due to the wooden acting of Kal Penn, he clearly graduated from the Keanu Reeves school of acting. The low point of the movie was when Kal was playing the teenage Gogol, it was cringe worthy and reminiscent of Harry Enfields Kevin character. The plot was really slow and tedious, it didn't grip me and was constantly waiting for something to happen. The only highlight was how pretty the actress Tabu is, she was wasted on this stinker.