On love and life and Amelie

Good late evening dear readers.

As you know, this blog explores rocket science, theatre (more to come) and restaurants too. Now we will venture into the world of film. (So I suppose I could become a general arts critic, with expaned genre and media)

I have just watched the film Amelie (2002). Probably my all time favourite Euro-film. Audrey Tatou is superb and there is no doubt that Jean-Pierre Jeunet must have been there. For all men who like their women enigmatic (16%) and smouldering (20%)..... this is viewing nicely! Hugely observant, tremendously poignant, and somehow darkly humerous. An excellent and thoroughly deserved 9/10.

Been a busy day then, and haven't learnt the sim space. Tut!

Good night dear readers.

Mu-mu cosy and little fellow under weather

...sorry to keep you in suspense...it was indeed the gasman and incredibly he had the part in the van!! I take it all back. Now mu-mu land is warm and cosy again.

Today I was going to be a painter and decorator for Pinga and Ant. However I turned my hand to minding the little chap. Grand fellow he is and good as gold..but a little bit under the weather this week. We wish him a speedy recovery.

Also spoke to the big fellow last night. Grand fellow he is too, and we have arranged a meeting on Friday at his place of work to witness all that training happening. I'm very looking forward to seeing all this, it should be fascinating.

Meanwhile my client is getting stranger and I'm not actually there to manage them and it's not quite the same over the phone...Hum ho bumbug ha.

Boilers and Sheep

Yes indeed I am back in the country seat. All fresh air and sheep.

Today I am mostly in the Lake District, tending the errant central heating boiler of the mu-mu land (they're justified and theyr'e ancient). Well actually waiting for the central heating shepherd to come and tend it as I have no scooby doo why it has decided not to perform it's simple task of igniting a highly flamable substance and thence warming the household. I mean it's not rocket science is it.... for as, dear readers, we already know that that would involve steering and advanced telemetry.

Ah that tantilising wait for the gasman. Will he arrive? Will he tend the boiler like an old boiler tender or will he suck his teeth and scratch his chin, commenting ruefully on the way it was fitted. It's all a bit too much tension.

Still the birds are chirping and the sun is shining and the daffodils are doing what they're meant to in the breeze.

Also, my client is being very unhelpful today. I do wish they would see sense. Hah bumbug.

Hark a van could it be.....

Been to school

Yes I have been in school ( read executive training course) all week in The City. I am therefore now most learned.

BTW I sould have written a big thanks to Si for assistance with getting this blog up, widening the fields and so on. Thanks Si. ....and TAS isn't true-airspeed on this occasion it was ...http://www.tasrestaurant.com/find_us.asp ....the one in Waterloo. Also I don't think my blog needs labels yet as it isn't very full. Although, if any of my readers would like labels I shall of course attach cheese and scooters!

I think I shall return to the Country seat this weekend. Although I find The City stimulating I like to get out and see some space. (That's wide open space rather than the space through which our rocket may be travelling) Dearest Pinga is now a householder and I may offer my services as a professional decorator. hmmm. Perhaps Pinga and Ant will decline this offer when I put it like this.

Yesterday was http://www.banksiderestaurants.co.uk/banksidese1/welcome.html. It was a school trip (see above) so we were 12 people. The service was good and the food came out reasonably quickly. They have Cassillero de Diablo as house red which is good. The food was ok but it wasn't eating too nicely somehow. Perhaps in hindsight, the food was too quick! Very noisy too so conversation difficult. Overall I think 4/10. It's quite near to the concrete lego building but I don't think I'll rush back.

Cheapside Hoard and TAS

No. Didn't get to the Oratory. Spent the day learning about the history of London. Which was educational if not cultural. The Cheapside Hoard is fascinating...imagine your average builder finding that on a job. It'd all be down the car-boot now.

I am struck by how relatively civilised was England in the past. In some ways we don't have seem to have come a long way. I think all that warring costs so much in terms of human and financial effort that we go backwards sometimes.

This evening was TAS. It's very Turkish, so if you are at all used to Greek...beware! That said....it was eating nicely....food being prepared as you watch, very attentive service. I think 7/10 so that's a high mark from me.

Today...

"Treats" & Advanced Telemetry

Yes, that was it, I remember now. It was probably not what I was expecting. It is very clever, but so clever that the actors seemed to be finding it quite difficult to deliver and the audience therefore found it hard to respond. Not because they were being challenged, but because much of it whooshed over their heads, hit the back wall and fell rather messily on the empty back seats. There were some moments of open humour but because these are interspersed with much darker humour it clunks. It should flow. I also felt like I knew people who were like this in real life, so it made me cringe a bit.

Still, Billie P. is definitely easy on the eye, Laurence F. plays a very good "nice-but-dim" with Kris M. rather less convincing as a coke snorting philanderer. All in all it was 4 out of 10 I think. Well perhaps 5 as they don't drag it out.

Later on I retired for post theatre supper to http://www.cafeboheme.co.uk/. After disappointment earlier this week I was pleased to find that this place is still eating nicely. Good menu, good service, good food. It is definitely still on form, so that restored some faith in one's list of places to go.

Moving on a little, if the big tube is fitted with gyros, especially the latest ring laser gyros http://jda.jaxa.jp/jda/get_image.php?f_id=6036&type=L which feed signals to the steering mechanism telling the steering how to move the big tube, then we are definitely in the realms of ring laser telemetry, which is very advanced rocket science.

Not sure what I'm doing today. Might pop into Brompton Oratory. I'll let you know.

The Theatre

Yes, still here in The City. This evening I am mostly going to the theatre. Can't quite remember what I'm going to see though. Hmm, that's bad isn't it? However. I'm sure I'll remember when I get there and you can rest assured there will be an incisive, balanced review here very soon. Meanwhile dear reader, I wish you a jolly nice weekend....wherever you are.

Steering

...of course..if you were able to adjust the direction in which the hot air were leaving the big tube then you would have steering....aha, advanced rocket science.

Meanwhile I am still in London which in future will be referred to as The City. This is to differentiate it from the place where my home is, which is also a city but not The City. Home is in a much smaller city which is surrounded by countryside (you know, fields, sheep, hedgerows and the like) and will be known as the country seat. Yes I know this is slightly bending the original term County Seat ..see Wiki..county town but it sounds a bit too grand for me so country seat will do fine.

Yesterday evening I went to an Italian restaurant http://www.sardo-restaurant.com/which I haven't visited for a couple of years. I think Simon has also been there. Now, it could be that I went on a bad night but it wasn't as good as usual. The food seemed warmed up rather than cooked and the waitresses have changed, which is a shame! Perhaps I will try it again and see if it was just a bad night.

I find I am already a rocket scientist and restaurant critic!

First Post

Well I'd rather it was the first post than the "Last-Post"!

I see I can put a label on the posts and the examples are...scooters, vacation and fall. Hmm which shall I use? This is going to be much harder than I thought. I will now try and arrange a day where I can use all 3 of these labels on one post. Or maybe I'm missing the point.

Anyway. Today I am mostly being in London. I work in a charming little 1970's concrete Lego building by the river, just along for Gabriels Wharf...so that should be easy to work out, without giving the whole game away.

Well I say I work here, but that's not entirely it, you see. I work anywhere and everywhere and really when I'm in the concrete Lego place it means I'm not really working.

Well I am..but not really...oh this is too hard. I'll try something easier...errrr...if you take a big tube and fill it with combustibles and then set fire to the combustibles so that much hot air is forced out of the tube..the tube moves. See ...Rocket Science is much easier.



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