In The Pink

Visiting the cinema last night to see the new Star Trek Film reminded us of how many great films there are out at the moment, or coming out in the next few weeks. I love film and would like to go to the cinema much more frequently but now we tend to save it for films that really benefit from being seen on the big screen, such as science fiction movies. There are however at least three films I would like to see on the big screen within the next few weeks. I have just watched Night at the Museum again on the TV and the sequel is currently at the cinema which I want to see. I really enjoyed the first film, which for anyone that doesn't know is about a night watchman at The Natural History Museum in New York who gets a surprise on his first night when he discovers that all of the displays and occupants come to life for the duration of the night. Its a lovely film full of adventure and magic, it reminds me of Jumanji, another story with a very similar feel that I can watch over and over...

We went to see the new Star Trek film last night. We are both big fans of the series and have been awaiting the new film with some anticipation. I watched the original series with my family when I was growing up. I have clear memories of riding my bike up and down the driveway of our house and then being called in for Star Trek every week. I think it was Thursday nights. I loved the original and particularly the play between Kirk ( William Shatner ) Spok ( Leonard Nimoy ) and Bones ( DeForest Kelly ) although I think Bones was my favourite. I loved his sense of humour. The shows may have aged somewhat now in terms of effects and story lines but the spin between the crew is still very engaging. Later on in life, and after it had run once on the TV, my partner introduced me to Star Trek - The Next Generation with the likes of Patrick Stewart , Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner and I soon became addicted to the show. I occasionally watched Deep Space Nine and Voyager however never real...

We have some nice plans for this weekend; we are, as usual for this time of year, addicted to gardening and the purchase of new plants. Our garden when we moved in was pretty empty so we have been able to plant trees and establish beds over the past year, now almost filled with a selection of shrubs and plants. Once a day, sometimes twice, we have a wander round checking on all of the plants to look for progress, new flowers, fruit developing and damage from the occasional passing dog paw or football! It is a lovely time of the day and a relaxing event. We are lucky enough to share our garden with a growing population of birds, frogs and newts. The Starlings are bringing their demanding young in every day for a feed and bathing demonstration! This weekend we want to purchase 4 more Pyracantha to fill some planting pits we have next to the rear wall of the house. They will make the patio area much more attractive and provide a dense, hardy plant with fruit to the birds tastes, particula...

Well, I am never listening to Dell again! I was not going to complain about them but I just had to get that out!! The good news is my PC is back up and running, with a shiny new security system and all is well in my PC world. I had an interesting day today, there's too much that has gone on in the past few weeks to write in one post so I am just going to stick to today for now. Today was a day of few achievements; there were meetings, phone calls, spreadsheets and another series of unexplainable errors with our in-house tree management system that have fried my brain and made me question my sanity however I did manage a doodle that I liked and consider to be a good achievement! I believe that doodling is supposed to be sub conscious, in which case I guess this is where I wanted to be today! This is a snap shot memory of my last walk on the Malverns. It's good to be back blogging!

Greetings all! I thought I had better put up a brief explanation of my extended absence from blogging. My PC has gone kaput! Ok it's not quite as serious as that and it's a long story but basically I need to take it to someone to offload all saved files so I can do a complete restore to factory settings to rectify the problem...or so I am told! I am currently staying with my Mum and Dad for a week hence this post! I have to say I after the internet service interuption and then this I am almost used to not having a PC however normal service will be resumed as soon as possible! Image Credit: Magdene.com