pudding and a movie

Manhattan from the plane… After many hours and a 13hr flight delay I’ve finally made it back to the big apple. UPDATE: Back in God’szown since ages ago now, but way too busy to update the blog. Sorry ’bout that.

“lemon trev”  – courtesy of Trev ***1/2 stars serious pud

lemon sponge with sugary yum

“smokin’ aces” – probably one of the worst movies we’ve ever seen. piece of unmitigated crud. watch the ‘making of’ to get an idea of the true douchebag you would have to be to make a movie this bad. bad movie no stars for you.

“just a vanilla cake with cream and jam in the middle”

took a long time to cook but was worth the wait **** stars everybody goin’ yum

“the double life of Veronique” - not quite as bad as smokin’ aces so we’ll give it * 1/2 stars ’nuff said

Trev’s “Black Doris Plumb Joy” almondy, pancaky mix and ‘The Last Wave’ Crown Lynn. Actually it was a night of awesomeness.  **** four 1/2 stars for that awesome pud.

Kinky Boots - which broke the string of terrible movies with a fantastic not-bleak flamboyant english movie. Could be described as the full monty crossed with the crying game. Easy ***** five stars. Finally.

We think we may have lost track of a pudding and a movie somewhere in there actually. Something about an awesome chocolate and jam in the middle extravaganza but we can’t seem to find the photos of anything and we can’t even remember the movie but probably better off without it cluttering up the cobwebs up there anyway.

two year old meets diplomat on a motorsickle

(updated pic)

this camera is not so much ‘old’ as the one before the one before the one before. in fact these pics are from a camera that pre-dates me… some pictures from Dad’s old ’slide film’ camera (not sure on model actually hmm) anyway just a very small selection from a much larger  selection at Anna and Fin’s slide evening the other night ..

Grandpa (Jock) and Tessa.

Tessa, Alastair, Dad, Fin, Mum and I. love the hair dad. In fact there’s three of us with the mad hair sweep and four with the mad white mop.

Alastair, Tessa (at the front) and probably Rosalind and Kent helping Grandpa out of Uncle Ian’s boat. Love those red gumboots! (click through above for a few more)

anyway thank you so much Fin and Anna it was an awesome night! Looking forward to the digital versions.

more pics over on flickr

(click for bigger versions at flickr)

.. courtesy of Louise’s sisters Kathryn and Sarah… how awesome is that!

thanks heaps and heaps Sah /K or should that be K / Sah

Baxter MacKendrick Thompson Gray

Baxter - after James K

MacKendrick - after his great, great, great, grandfather Henderson. (MacKendrick also means son of Kender, or Henderson. You see) Passed down from his grandfather Stephen MackKendrick and father Miles Kendrick, Thompson.

Thompson - after his dad, grandfather and great grandfather, Thompson.

Gray - after The Gray, The Gray and The Gray* and especially after Captain Gray Edwards from The Spirits Within.

Captain Gray Edwards

Ezra William Thompson Gray

Ezra - after Ezra in the song by David Weinstein. Also after, Ezra the coolerest hipster in Williamsburg at the time of his birth. And after Ezra Jack Keats, author and illustrator.

William - asfter Williamsburg where he was born. And Williams his mothers, mothers, mothers maiden name. And of course..

Thompson Gray - for the same reasons as for Baxter.

Ezra Jack Keats

Noah Finlay Thompson Gray

Noah - after, well Noah. May he rescue us all from the coming flood.

Finlay - after his uncle Finlay.

Thompson Gray - for the same reasons as Ezra and Baxter.

Noah

* NB Even though none of us explicitly share a bloodline with the clan gray its a virtual mathematical certainty - given our heritage - that we have clan Gray blood in at least some aspect of our past - see the mathematics of geometrical growth vs the population of Scotland in 1600.

courtesy of Trev…

Trev would also like to thank the Academy - reminiscient of the movie Chocolat, water street and train rides the way they are supposed to be, we are glad to award

**** - 3 1/2 Stars for the chocolate. I reckon more.

As for the movie. Dang. Day Watch -:

Day Watch (Russian: Дневно́й дозо́р, Dnevnoi Dozor), a Russian fantasy action blockbuster marketed as “the first film of the year”, opened in theatres across Russia on January 1, 2006 and will open in the U.S. on June 1, 2007. It is a sequel to the 2004 film Night Watch, featuring the same cast. It is based on the second and the third part of Sergey Lukyanenko’s novel The Night Watch rather than its follow-up novel Day Watch.

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…viewed by us (at this time) as a Cheap russian “import”, with, regrettably, some fairly poor quality transcription (that’ll teach me) which somewhat degraded the watchability of the extraodinarily complex dialog, notwithstanding the fantastic effects, and of course that special insane Moscow thing, which came through loud and clear. I think that, after all you did need to have seen the ‘first one’ to really appreciate it - which put the womyn at a bit of a disadvantage - - so probably not quite as good as NightWatch but I think we would all agree dang fine, nonetheless.

Hmm sounds like a

**** - 3 1/2 Stars for Дневно́й дозо́р, Dnevnoi Dozor

And, there’s a book? Cool. I bet that would rock. Must get. Might be worth another crack at the movie in fact but i think it did fly past a few of those who perhaps feel asleep or damn near.

cup cakes iced by Baxter and Ezra..pretty aren’t they? Followed by a severe dose of dish washing for a few hours