[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY10ZL9eORgLinnieGayl recently wrote about Colin Firth in The King’s Speech. Now that I have seen the movie as well, I would like to talk about Geoffrey Rush. In The King’s Speech, he plays Australian-born speech therapist Lionel Logue, who successfully treated George VI (played by Colin Firth) for his stammer. If you haven’t seen the…
I’ve got this nasty cold – started with a headache last Thursday, turned into a cough on Sunday, and has saddled me with an extremely runny nose today. While the cold’s disadvantages are obvious (feel bad, get no housework done, husband has escaped to the guest bedroom, can’t go to the gym), right now I…
Last week, I fixed my ebookreader. By myself. My husband has requested that I stop boasting about it to him, so here I’m telling you.
I have fallen in love this winter – with leather gloves. As a cyclist, of course I use gloves throughout the cold months, but so far it used to be woollen mittens mostly, with only one pair of too-large leather gloves in a garish red. This year I have discovered leather gloves that fit, and…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdDXvBv5tlsThis one was my earworm for yesterday. My subconscious probably chose it because a problem I had feared would cause major upsets had just that morning dissolved, so the occasion was a happy one. As an earworm, the song – however beautiful it is – frustates me, as getting the melody right defeats me every…
As I wrote in a recent post, I am planning to go on a tour in England this summer. Following your very kind recommendations, I finally booked a tour that will take my mother and me to Bath, Glastonbury & Wells, Devon, Cornwall, Stonehenge, and Salisbury on the way back. I am looking forward to…
A new TV show has started to be aired here recently: Being Erica. So far, there have only been two episodes, but I liked those very much and have entered the show on my to-be-watched-regularly list for the time being.
Seven years ago, I suggested to my mother I would take her on a trip to England to visit some of the famous gardens. With one thing and another, we never got round to it. Until recently, when my father reminded us of it (partly because he wants to go on a bird-watching trip to…
Like every year, next to a number of Christmas presents I liked hugely (thanks again ever so much, guys!), there were two items under the tree that I was not quite to pleased with. I speak of them in the past, because in the week since Christmas I have managed to be rid of both…
I’m not quite sure why, but the days before and just after Christmas are the perfect time for me to watch animated cartoons (is that the right term to use?). Somehow it’s the perfect moment to snuggle under a woolly blanket on the sofa, pick up the remote, and start watching a cartoon on the…
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