Where was shaun?

Some time ago I read about the Locks Inn in Geldeston Norfolk. Its located in the middle of the marshes, with no access apart from by river or by an unmade road. Its recently become a community pub and it just sounds really cool. So this weekend, Ben and I cycled the 70 Miles up to Geldeston, camped at the Wardley Hill Campsite and went to the pub for burgers and beer.

We had a fantastic time, the weather was perfect for the whole two days and it was so nice to explore the villages in Suffolk and Norfolk.

This weekend we had a random day out on London. No real plan just a bit of an amble about. First of all we went to Leake Street under Waterloo Station to see the current graffiti. Leake street Arches became what they are today after Banksy, back in 2008 invited artists to the arches stating that “‘Graffiti doesn’t always spoil buildings, in fact it’s the only way to improve a lot of them.”

AFter the Arches we walked up into Chring Cross and feeling hungry we popped into the Ship and Shovel for some lunch. What a great pub and so distinctive as it is actually on both sides of the alley and is linked by a (staff only) tunnel underneath that also contains the kitchen and cellars.

Watched this while on hols, some really funny moments. Ryan Gosling is brilliant as ken and his development of Kendom as an alternative to Barbieland is hilarious. Glorias monologue was so true but I do feel you could write the same speech on the pressures of being a man in todays world.

8/10

JFK

We decided to give this a rewatch as Emma has been learning about the Vietnam War and the period preceding it.

7/10

Nora and Hae Sung, two childhood friends, are seperated after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea to Canada. Twenty years later, after talking online they meet again in New York. is there Past Life going to continue in this life?
Central to the story is the concept of “In Yeon” a buddhist concept which means that any small connection between two people whose paths cross enough times, even in past lives, can lead to love or marriage.
This is beautiful film with fantastic pacing. What makes it is, Greta lees performance as Nora, she will definitely be nominated in the awards season. A must watch.

10/10

The Last Of Us

Rewatched this even though it only came out earlier this year. I think this is superb and I enjoyed this even more on the second watch. I am wondering about the central theme to this series…I think it is about love which in turn give them motivation to live rather than just surviving in a post apocalyptic world. Brilliant

10/10

The Night of

Rewatched this as its one of my favourite box sets ever. I love everything about it the script, direction, and the cinematography. Its so well acted by Riz Ahmed and John Tutorro is just so good. Made me feel sad watching the late Michael K Williams, he has such presence on screen. I must watch The Wire again..

10/10

The Creator

Amidst a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, Joshua, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war and mankind itself.

I was on board with this fiulm as soon as I read Greth Edwards directed it as Rogue One has become my favourite Star Wars films.
This film looks amazing and makes you wonder if our prejudice to A.I. may be flawed, and definitely highlights the faults of mankind.

8/10

K picked me up from work at Saturday lunchtime and we headed straight off on the 6 hour drive to Kirkby Lonsdale. We arrived at about 7pm to the rain slicked streets of Kirby Lonsdale. It’s a really delightful town to see at Christmas as most of the houses and shops in the centre of town have small Christmas trees attached at first floor level and it looks amazing.
The cottage was lovely, really cosy and  in a great location overlooking the Graveyard.

On Christmas Eve we went to the nativity service. The church was packed and we all had a good sing song which can never fail to make you feel a bit Christmassy and then we popped up to the Orange tree pub for a pint.

Christmas Day was lovely, just really chilled. On Boxing Day we went for a walk up Scout Scar from Brigsteer near Sizergh Castle. The weather was really nice and it wasn’t until were about halfway round we realised we had done the walk before!

We spent the rest week relaxing the weather was pretty wet but we were able to get out most days apart from Wednesday when it absolutely poured but we just pottered around the town and dossed about. On Friday we drove up to Kentmere and did a walk along the valley. Again, it rained a bit and it was too windy to go up the hills but the walk along the valley was really good. It was just great to be up in the lakes.

We had to head home on Saturday, and we had planned to pop in and see Ol but Jo is over from Australia at the moment and she arranged to get everyone together at the Plough and Flail at Mobberly. So we stopped off there and got to see all my cousins and Aunts and Uncles. There was 26 of us in all and it was great too see everybody.

We had a really good night at the Classic Horror Night at Colchester Arts centre last night. The event has been running for five years and is held roughly once a month and they show a really old horror film and as this was the last showing of the year they also had a quiz prior to showing the film.

It was really cool, the lights were all down with spooky music playing and you could sit at tables with candles or in the rows of chairs and the bar was open! The host of the night came out dressed as a mummy and gave us our quiz questions, we though we would be terrible but we actually got 10/20.

The film was terrible with a really poor script but it was a good laugh to watch. A right good night.