My daughter did really well in her interview last night. It was one for the sixth form college locally. She is not too sure if she wants to go there or not, and I have made her aware that her chances at reaching her potential for her grades is greater if she stays where she is, but that she will encounter a wider range of people if she switches. However, while she may enjoy things more there, I suspect that she will not get the help that she may want if she is there, help that she will get if she stays where she is now.
But that is her decision to make, and I will support her with it.
On repeated occasions, our Prime Minister appears to have shown evidence that there is one rule for the many, and one rule for others. Today was an example where he showed that he likes to ignore and then bend the rules.
There is no doubt that this government have come across as corrupt and have lost the moral standpoint to question other nations about this. I understand the reluctance of the Prime Minister to avoid this, but to repeatedly break the rules of Parliament in PMQ's is even less acceptable than his usual refusal to answer difficult questions posed to him.
Finally! we got to watch this. Though I was not sure if I would be able to. My wife and I drove to London for her course and I stayed with my mother and had lunch there while I worked and had a chat with her as well as being fed lunch. It was nice to have home cooked food from my childhood again. My brother was not at home as he was over at his partner's. The drive to her course was an easy one, it being Sunday and early morning, though the drive there in the afternoon was more interesting and I had to put my London driving head back on.
It was great picking her up afterwards as she was buzzing. It is sad in a way that this was a date, but it was great spending time with her.
Once at home, it was household chores, ironing for me and my wife cooked (I said that she should relax). And we watched Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Well most of us did, one child left after an argument between the two resulted in them being asked to leave. They had the chance to watch the end which they had missed later, but declined.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was a film I liked. My wife was not too fond of the CGI, but I thought that the film was put together quite well. Predictable in places, but a well told story and another Disney success. I am looking forwards to watching the films that are to follow from this!
But before we watched it. my daughter and I watched this...
We tried to relax today as tomorrow I am driving my wife to London for a course. We got my daughter a desk for her room, I went and did a bit of man shopping, that is my wife gave me a list and then I did not get what was on it (pictures help). My son wanted to watch Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and got annoyed when we did not. Which was ironic as he did not know it was on until we told him! We had wanted to watch it in the cinema before, but were too nervous because of the pandemic.
My daughter wanted to assemble the desk so I went to her room to supervise her, but ended up doing it all as she collapsed exhausted from revising for her up coming mock exams as well as staying up to watch this video!
The family insisted that we watched this on the weekend. My daughter has a friend who watched it and would tell her spoilers. My son wanted to watch it as well, even though he had to go to a firework display afterwards and this would cut it fine. I had said I would watch it midweek with him. I do prefer watching films on a Wednesday as there are less people there. The person next to me only sneezed six times, but that was six times too many. Apparently, the person next to my daughter coughed on occasions.
As with most Marvel films, this was another classic and well worth watching. I loved it and would certainly watch it again, in fact, I will be watching it again on Disney+ when it is out. A great story, good acting and I loved the characters. I do not want to say too much as I do not want to spoil the film, but we all loved it.
Afterwards, my son was a bit stressed as he did not realise how late it finished, but he met up with his friends to go to the firework display and had a great time there.
Cinema time was yesterday. It was the third time that we have been to the Curzon in Colchester, though by we, this was my daughter and I to watch Dune. My wife had no interest in watching it, and while my son had expressed an interest in watching it before, he changed his mind.
He may have been a bit stressed about the exams that he had earlier in the day, this being an SPAG English assessment (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar). He has been a bit more stressed, getting lifts in from my wife and I so far this week rather than riding his bike into school. He is happy to walk back with his friends, which is fine, so long as he lets us know this in advance.
Anyway, the film. I do remember bits of the 1984 version of Dune from many years ago when I was a lot younger. I do remember being told that it was a complicated film and this one appears to have overcome the constraints of changing the book into film by filming it over two parts. Yes, at the beginning, the film was a bit ponderous, but it did speed up and I am looking forwards to the sequel. I cannot really comment on the plot as it is based on the book, but the acting and directing made the story make sense.
Just one thing, how have the inhabitants of Arrakis lived so long if Sand Worms are attracted to movement in the sandy wastes of the planet?
Angela Rayner referred to a proposed change in the rules relating to how Rob Roberts was readmitted and how they wished to change the rules and review his case under the new rules. Personally, while I think that the actions of Rob Roberts was wrong, a retrospective change of rules after a gap in the law has been found is also wrong. I think that it was wrong for Labour to push for that in his case, just as I think that the same is wrong for Owen Patterson.
The issue of cash for questions harmed the Conservatives under John Major, but so far, Boris Johnson and the Conservatives have avoided numerous allegations.
It is sad how the the population of the UK appear to be happy with this sleaze. Many blame Keir Starmer for this, rather than the media who do not really hold this government to account.
