If you like your super-hero movies – and also cats – this then was the perfect combo! Tonight was movie-night at ours with the recent release of Black Panther (on 4K UHD* of course!) Joining us: Jo and Janet with a few nibbles and some drinkies too!! – another perfect combo! Janet brought up a …
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Bank Holiday in Matlock
Saturday It was a very pleasant drive up to our good friends Ralph and Karen (Best Man and Maid of Honour back in the day). This time though, with a small difference – they’ve moved house, literally just down the road! It was good to be catching-up again, as the last time we were at …
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Film: Avengers: Infinity War
The mighty juggernaut that is the Marvel film franchise (or to give it its proper name, the Marvel Cinematic Universe) continues on its unstoppable journey with their nineteenth movie (yes, really!) entitled: Avengers: Infinity War. Shares in the firm Spandex have already risen, as the movie was launched worldwide this weekend – and there’s a lot …
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Film: Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
That’s a record! Off to the local Odeon again tonight – that’s two visits in a row! Tonight, we saw the award-winning movie: Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri. Ann had always wanted to see it, but we missed it the first time around. For me, the motivation was more about a bucket-load of ‘40% off’ …
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Lights… Camera… err, Rickmansworth
Thanks to my good friend Stuart, today was an opportunity for me to wallow in the nostalgia of Film and TV from a bygone age. It was my first visit to the annual Film Festival organised by Renown Pictures (better known to many TV viewers as the Sky 343/Freeview 81/FreeSat 306/Virgin 445 Film Channel Talking …
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Film: Early Man
Val and I went to the Odeon today to see the recently released, Early Man. This was a very family friendly film from Aardman’s Nick Park, who’s been away from our screens since his Wallace and Gromit short, A Matter Of Loaf And Death for the BBC in 2008. The car-park was surprisingly full when …
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Film: The Post
It was off to the Kettering Odeon tonight for 5.45pm performance of The Post. We were very much looking forward to this, given the partnership of Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg (apparently, the first time they’ve all worked together on the same film). The storyline follows the New York Times’ and Washington Post’s …
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Film: Darkest Hour
Well that’s a first! Thanks to Sky and their newly launched VIP Programme, we were offered two free tickets to see Darkest Hour A WHOLE WEEK AHEAD of its general release. The only slight downside was that we had to drive all the way over to Cineworld in Milton Keynes to see it, but it was …
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New Year’s Eve 2017
A busy New Year’s Eve! First up, we joined Jo, Janet and Carol at the local Odeon for the 3.15 performance of the movie: The Greatest Showman starring a clean-shaven Hugh Jackman (free from his Wolverine alter-ego). The movie is based on P. T. Barnum‘s creation of the the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Initially, I …
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Film: Star Wars: The Last Jedi
This is spoiler-free, so if you’ve not seen it yet, you can safely read this, and go with unbiased eyes. Jo managed to bag some tickets for Star Wars: The Last Jedi tonight at the local Odeon. Much has been written about this episode (and no doubt, much WILL be written once it’s left the …
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Long Weekend with Ralph & Karen
Ralph and Karen are staying with us until Sunday! Yay!!! Thursday Ralph and Karen arrived just before lunch and after a quick nibble, it was off for a sight-seeing afternoon around picturesque Stratford-upon-Avon… …we dropped into Rick’s place – Hathaway Tea Rooms for a quick nibble, but no sign of Rick though! (That, unbeknown to …
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Wonder Full
Jo and Janet popped-up for a spot of nosebag and to watch Wonder Woman with us on Sky digital download in the fourth of DC Comic’s Extended Universe movies. Starring ex-Miss Israel and Model, Gil Gadot, she did a great job in the starring role as Diana Prince. It’s also been one of the only …
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Film: Victoria and Abdul
It was off to the local Odeon today to catch the just-released Victoria and Abdul starring Judi Dench and Ali Fazal. In a way, it was a little like 1997’s Mrs Brown, also starring Judi Dench in the royal role, but this time it was set in the final years of her reign and charted …
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Gambling on a Bank Holiday Weekend
Here we are then, all set to enjoy a Gambles Weekend… and then some… SaturdayThe extended weekend began with us travelling down to Stevenage Station for 11am to pick up Denis. Then it was off to Roger, Jane and Oliver’s for the Bank Holiday weekend. Bev was unable to join us because of her nursing …
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La Picnic
It was our annual trip to Lunaflix’s outdoor cinema presentation tonight – the Film? 2016’s La La Land; the venue? Boughton House. We’d been here last year to see Pretty Women and I immediately noticed this time, it was much better supported (with apparently, over 400 tickets sold – last year it was more like …
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Term Ending/Birthday Spending/D-Day Landing
Thursday – School Term EndingIt’s a Gambles-Get-Together! We travelled down to Roger, Jane and Oliver’s on Thursday for lunch and then an overnight stay and then catching-up with Denis and Bev tomorrow. After a quick bite, we watched part of the 400th Anniversary celebration on DVD of Oliver’s school – Richard Hale – that took …
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Film: Churchill
We haven’t been to the local Odeon for months, so it was good to break the habit today! We saw the afternoon matinee of Jonathan Teplitzky’s production of Churchill. With so many ‘big’ films today being dependent on an over-use of CGI, it was good to actually watch something that relied solely on quality acting …
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Film: Jack Reacher – Never Go Back
We drove up to Denis’ today. Ann had made him lunch – a rather tasty Lasagne and we stayed until about 2pm. It was an excellent journey there and back – in fact probably the best we’ve ever had in terms of lack-of-traffic – and the sun was shining too (and that’s rare whenever we …
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House Call – 1
Nicki joined us for the weekend, but with the weather looking pretty unpleasant, we weren’t quite sure what to do with ourselves. So, Ann picked up Lee and they arrived back home around the same time as Nicki. We spent a couple of hours catching-up (and handing over Nicki’s birthday presents) before sitting down to …
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Outdoor Cinema
This was a first for us! Outdoor Cinema – in the UK!! We drove over to Boughton House, just a few miles away for a LunaFlix’s event where they were showing the iconic 1990 flick Pretty Woman. I’d booked the tickets almost nine months ago, having seen Lunaflix’s advert on Facebook – and planned it …
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Sean/Prawn/Bourne
It was off to Sean’s first thing to continue our pruning marathon. One very full wheely-bin and a sack-full and we were all done… until the next time!Before… After… The next stage was to drop into the local dump (oh, the excitement) and get rid of the extra bag full of foliage – but the queue …
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Matlock for May Day Weekend
SATURDAY After my final Committee Meeting as Chair for The OCA yesterday, it was good to know we had a relaxing long weekend coming up with our great friends, Ralph and Karen in Matlock. We left around 10.30 and had a trouble-free journey (helped by the new bit of the road linking the A14 to …
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Film: Star Wars – The Force Awakens
Lucky me. Jo and Janet were going for a second time – and I was invited (I think I’m the last fan in the world to see it!) Even if you’re not a Star Wars fan, it’s defnitely worth going to see it. In short – BRILLIANT! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in …
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Christmas 2015
Christmas EvePretty much a lazy day here. Lee was with us and we spent time catching up with missed TV programmes and looking out for bargains on the ‘net.Ann cooked a rather delicious Chicken and Chestnut pie yesterday and we made light work of it for lunch together with almost a whole bottle of a …
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Bond 24 – SPECTRE
It only seems like yesterday when we saw Skyfall, at the local Odeon, but in fact it was October 28th, 2012 – THREE years ago! Skyfall was considered to be a critical and commercial success, so this latest in the franchise was going to be a difficult film to get right. Sensibly, they’d hired back …
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Film: Kingsman – Secret Service
After a quick Fish and Chips and David and Val’s (Fish and Baked Potato for me!- smug Lent Boy alert), it was off to the Odeon in Kettering to see Kingsman – The Secret Service. It seems to have been on for ages, and I was pretty sure the Screen would be empty. Wrong! it …
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Lock up your Saucepans!
David and I decided to collaborate on cooking a meal for our respective other halves tonight – today being Valentine’s Day! We kept it mostly a secret, having planned the nitty-gritty earlier in the week. The plan was to offer three courses plus a cheese-board, and then finish with a movie to round off the …
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Erotic?
There’s a lot of talk about this at the moment, so I went to Homebase and B & Q today to find out more, but they couldn’t explain it either. Am I missing something? Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! …
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Weekend with Roger and Jane
With Oliver away on a skiing trip in France, it was the perfect weekend for Roger and Jane to spend the weekend with us. In fact, it was the first time they’d been away – just the two of them – for around 11 years! First port of call was Stamford. It was a trouble-free …
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Film: Mortdecai
Nice! We got another of those ‘Two Tickets for a Tenner’ emails form Odeon yesterday. Looks like they’re shareable too! So, we joined David and Valerie at the local Odeon to see Mortdecai. If you love Johnny Depp and/or are possibly old enough to remember Terry Thomas, you will love this film. From its predominantly …
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