The Princess

The Princess was an interesting film.  Simultaneously bad and good at the same time.  When it comes to the test of payment, I am glad that I did not pay to watch this though and I am not going to watch it again. It is not even a film I would recommend to anyone unless they are interested in fantasy role playing and even then, I would warn them that it is not the best film ever.  With this in mind, I watched it alone.

I continued to watch Grey’s Anatomy with my son before I took my daughter to her friends for her sleepover before her drive to France tomorrow and then watched Love Island with my amazing wife.  I am glad Danica has got to stay after her awesome takedown of Billy last night.

Last of all, the video is of Leia earlier this morning on our walk.  She can be very determined at times! 

The last PMQs of Boris Johnson

Hopefully this will be the last PMQ’s of Boris Johnson. With the Conservative Leadership coming up it was good to hear Boris Johnson being asked questions about issues that had been raised by the candidates.  His answers were not up to much, but when are they?  Never before as a Prime Minister been so despised by those in Parliament due to this repeated lies, the lack of applause as he left from opposition politicians being a sign of this. 

I did watch it with my daughter who was not as animated as she was before.  The odds are that she will be watching this again when it starts up again with a new leader.

Controlling behaviour on Love Island

Yes, I am still watching Love Island.  I was appalled at the double standards shown by the two men to women last week when they returned from time apart with new men in tow as these men had hooked up with other ladies themselves.  Dami was disappointing, but Andrew was worse having been intimate with Coco and then forgetting that he had been so.  

But this week, Luca has been controlling regarding his partner, Gemma, and Davide has been the same with his.  Luca though appears to be the worst as all his partner did was talk to another man (who then lied about what happened).  I just hope that women and girls watching this do not expect this behaviour to be normal when it comes to men.  

Coming home, it has been interesting. My daughter is due to travel to France on Thursday with friends (and the family of one) and tonight is her last night with us as she will be sleeping over at her friends for a sleepover before an early morning start.  Sadly and argument has taken place which has involved her.  I hope and pray that this is resolved before she leaves.

Am I the only one to be suspicious of the support Gove is giving Kemi Badenoch?

Sorry to sound cynical about this, but Michael Gove has a history of being linked to racism.  The contents of his bookcase came under scrutiny in the past.  While the books concerned may have belonged to his wife, and people have the right to read what they want, having books that promote racism visible to others is not an advisable move for a politician.  When younger, I bought a copy of the Satanic Bible.  I do not have it now as I consider it to be literally evil.  There was only so much of it that I could read before I threw it away.  

I may be wrong, he may think that Kemi Badenoch would have been the best leader for the Conservative party.  But his backing of her will be convenient if he is challenged on racism in the future as he will be able to say that he backed her so cannot be racist.   

Thor: Love and Thunder

As expected, I enjoyed this Marvel film.  It was not as good as the others at times, and of the Thor films, this may be my least favourite, but I still liked it, and if one of the children wants to watch it again on the big screen, I would be happy to watch it again.  Though I have to admit, Nebula and the soundtrack play a big part in this!

At times, it was a bit too silly, but only by a bit.  Overall, it had the humour I like and of course action.  A welcome addition to the Marvel series of films, but if I was being pedantic, not quite as good as the others.  Mind you, it did not seem to have the glaring plot holes that Avengers Endgame had!

As for the family, we all watched it together.  I had been planning to cook, but got to work too late to get home to cook lunch which was a shame.  I did go for a bike ride, my first in ages while my son took Leia for a morning walk.  However while he took her for a long one, it was a bit too late in the morning for what I wanted as none of us want her to be affected badly by the heat.  It is strange in that my children took Leia for a walk rather than me, by daughter taking her for a walk once we returned home from the cinema and before we watched Love Island.  I say we, my son will not watch it and instead was in his room.  But he may be the only sane one amongst us!

MH17 and Russian incompetence

A few years ago, after the destruction of MH17, I made a post on my blog. My first post was in 2014 and I posted an update the following year.  But one question remained to me.  How could the operators mistake a civilian airliner for a military plane?  Civilian airliners have been destroyed before, and example being Iran Air 655 when a very stupid decision made in the heat of battle, but when it came to MH17, no battle was taking place. 

 

The answer appears to be incompetence. We have seen during Putins War that too many Russian troops have been poorly equipped and badly trained.  We can only imagine if the crew and passengers would be alive if the crew had been properly trained.

3022

Well that was a depressing film!  I liked it, though it did not score well on Amazon Prime (which reminds me, I must rate it).  I do like some darker films and I doubt that anyone else at home would have wanted to watch a film that was so bleak.  If you want to watch the film, do not watch the trailer which gives away a lot of it.  Too much in fact.   

As for the rest of us, we have been taking it a bit easy today.  I have watched some Grey's Anatomy with my son, though I did not learn anything this time.  He does not seem to mind my commentary, though I am shocked (no pun intended) that they attempt to defibrillate asystole.  

I did get to use the water guns that I had bought earlier this month.  My daughter and I had a fight, sadly, my son got caught in the crossfire.  We had washed Leia, but she decided to shoot her anyway.  Though with the heat, she dried out very quickly.  I suspect that she will be used as target practice again this summer...