To express or not to express?

AAH was sent home from school yesterday for bad behaviour. Apparently she was sent to the principal’s office, not once but twice. First for talking back to a teacher; then a while later for talking in class. Keeping her mouth shut in class has been an ongoing...

GGB Q&A

So anyway, getting back to dreamy Gael García Bernal. He showed up, as promised, at the screening of The Motorcycle Diaries on Saturday night. Before it started some guy got up on stage and said “Welcome” and “after the movie there’s going to be a Q and A session” and...

Sidebar blues, a poem

What-oh-what has happened to my sidebar?!There it is, waaayyy down at the bottom of the page, down farWhat have I done to make it relocate??I have not gone near it all day longNot put up a picture that is way too wideOh sidebar, sidebar, why doest thou act so...

A joke

Maggie and John went to bed one night after having a fight. They were so pissed that they weren’t speaking to each other. John had to get up early for an important meeting so he wrote a note that read: Wake me at six o’clock! and taped it to Maggie’s...

Filmfest ramble

The first International Icelandic Film Festival is upon us and has YT all fired up. I love love love film festivals! The only downside to the next three weeks is how on earth will I see all the movies I want to see? The operating word here is international. We’ve had...

Dear friends in Blogland…

Could you please help me decide if this man, who of late has been firing odd missives into my comments box, is:a) Wackob) Brilliantc) Hilariousd) Flirting with me.Thank you.AS FOR TODAY’S WEATHERCertainly not as ghastly as yesterday – we had sub-zero temps...