My children and the dog are bullies

I was subjected to an unprovoked and brutal assault by my children.  I was trying to help my daughter up from the floor when I slipped, the children and Leia then took the opportunity to attack me.  Allegations that I pinned my daughter down for Leia to lick her are obviously wrong, and so are similar allegations that I did the same to my son later.  What I do not understand is why my dog attacked me by licking me when I am obviously the Alpha. 

Yes Day

This started as an okay film which my wife and daughter watched, but became one which was poor at the end.  My son was not in the mood to watch something together so stayed upstairs in his room, and it can be argued that that was the better choice.  To be fair, it was nice to watch it as an almost family and this is a film that would appeal to kids more than adults but only at the end of the film.

I think that the best bit of the film was the father and daughter moment singing to Epic, by Faith No More.

I am not sure who this film is aimed at as I think that it fails to hit any target.  There are worse films out there and I would have much preferred to watch another film with my wife and daughter.  Saying that, my wife fell asleep towards the end of the film, and considering that this is where the film started to fail, that was quite sensible of her!

13 Reasons Why; Tape 3, Side B

It was good to watch this with my son.  The main issue here was how rumours can affect how others see you.  That and sexual assault.  Again.  

My son did not like being a man after watching it, though there was one person who was decent to Hannah.  

Comparing this episode to the book is hard, as they are very different media.  The book gets across the pain that Hannah feels, while this episode concentrates more on the other issues taking place at the school.  I have to say that if I had the tape, I would not be able to listen to them over a long period of time like Clay in the series, but like in the book, would want to listen to the tapes as quickly as I could.  

Meghan Markle and THAT interview

I am in the surprising position of siding more with Piers Morgan than with Meghan Markle over her interview.  Before I watched it, I was not, and was a lot more sympathetic to her.  Issues like the way her father has cashed in to berate her in public disgust me, not just the father for doing so, but the way some of what has been said has been manipulated to frame her in a worse light. But since watching it, I have changed.

There is a difference in how Harry came across in his interview on the bus about what happened.  He talked about the appalling way that elements of the media treated his wife, he talked about how this affected his mental health.  Of course, with Meghan being pregnant, she is not able to go on an assault course, or be taken to the house of the Prince of Bel Air.

There is always going to be an issue about who has said what and how it was said.  The issue of who made who cry is going to be a matter of perception.  There are ways to ask about the skin colour of a baby which are innocent, and there are ways to ask which are racist, and I can see how she will take offence when hearing about the comment.  But the facts are that Archie has not been discriminated against when it came to being called a prince based on his skin colour.  

I do not agree with everything that Piers Morgan has said, but I am not going to trust someone in an interview who has got an issue about royal titles wrong.  Saying that, while wrong, I understand that Meghan Markle will have issues about joining the Royal Family when so many elements of the press have been so cruel about her.

The sad thing is that now, people are focusing on her insinuation of racism from a member of the Royal Family rather than ignoring how she was so harshly judged on the same matters where her sister-in-law was praised.  

Coming 2 America

This was an enjoyable film.  Predictable in many areas, and also, like to original, cringeworthy at times.

I am not sure how enjoyable it will be for those who have not watched the original which found the right balance between tacky and genius.  In my view, this fell of the line into being too tacky at times, but this was not a film mainly aimed at me.  As you can see from the number of stars, current and past in it, this is a film with a particular audience in mind.

With a very predictable plot, I would imagine that this is not something that those who have not watched the original would love as much as someone like me will.  Overall, an enjoyable film, but I am not certain if that is because of the film, or because I wanted to see what happened to Prince Akeem, Queen Lisa and Semmi.  

My daughter tested positive today

We just had a scare today.  My wife and I were conducting our lateral flow tests and tested my daughter for her school.  She tested positive.

She was distraught, not knowing how this happened and terrified that she was going to give this to my wife and I.  However, it turned out to be a false alarm.  We had used a different testing kit for my daughter, my wife and I having the NHS employee testing carried out on ourselves twice a week.  The test that was used on my daughter, had a similar packet to that we use, and it was only after about 20 minutes of terror, that we realised that the kit that had been used was the positive control test.  The actual tests that we were meant to use, come in packets that look more like sweet wrappers.  

She tested negative and needless to say, we can be assured that the positive control test kit works.

Maze Runner: The Death Cure

The end of the trilogy was fun.  Bearing in mind, that this is a teenage film, I can ignore errors such as airborne helicopters not being able to see a lit settlement before the people in it were able to hear them (and switch off all the lights) or how a city outside a city was able to survive without anywhere to grow food.

Other than those two huge errors, it was an enjoyable film and conclusion to the trilogy.  My son joined my daughter and I as we watched it.  Overall, I would have to say that this was not as good as the Hunger Games Trilogy, but was better than Divergent (which started with an awesome film). 

I may be biased though, watching a film about a filler virus which ravages humanity while the world is affected by COVID may alter my perception of the film!