Enola Holmes 2

Yesterday we watched Enola Holmes 2. When I say we, I mean all of us other then my son who is watching a new series which is available now and so opted not to watch this. Leia watched most of it before watching his series.

I have to say, I prefer this film to the original, and it is not often I prefer a sequel. Yes, some of it was a bit too unbelievable but over all it was a good film with a bit of history thrown in as well. I imagine that there will be many who will object to the diversity shown in the film who will be willing to accept the other parts of the film which were not as realistic as it could have been as well.

It had a decent plot, good acting and was directed well. If you liked the original, the odds are that you will like this more.

As for today, we have been at a wedding of two good friends. It was lovely to watch them tie the knot and we all wish them the best for the years to come. It was also great to meet their family, some of whom we have met before, others we met for the first time, though one person we met was convinced they had met one of us before.

I have tried to nap as we are to go to the dance later tonight, but the fireworks are keeping me up. Am looking forwards to strutting my stuff on the dance floor! 

Ian Blackford beats Keir Starmer in PMQ’s

Starmer did well in PMQ’s yesterday but Ian Blackford did better. However the Conservatives have to stick by Cruella despite the latest revelations about her refusal to follow the rules on sending communications as she comes across as being strong on immigration. By immigration, I mean those crossing the channel to seek asylum. The media are supporting the narrative that we are being swamped rather than looking, as Starmer has raised, why it is taking so long to process asylum applications. 

Last night

I think that the kids liked Halloween. My son considers it to be his favourite holiday (though to me it is not a holiday) and my daughter had a friend round who loves it.  My wife and I had tried to watch Fear Street 1994 with them on the weekend, but they were not too interested and left.

Last night, it rained and rained.  Our dog woke me up barking, which means that she normally wants to go to the toilet.  I got out of bed, went downstairs and opened the door at 0130 only for her to decide that she did not need to go to the toilet as it was raining!  The same happened at 0200 and also at 0400, by which time it had stopped raining, so she decided that she was able to attend to her call of nature.  

I would just like to point out that the children said that they would do this before they got her...

We may have been lucky

I watched the Arsenal highlights.  We were unlucky in that we did not score more, but we were lucky that Nottingham Forest did not take the chances that they had in the first half.  But, we are top of the league again after being knocked off it for one day.  Fingers crossed we keep winning.

Meeting a brother

One of my brothers came this weekend with his lovely partner for a wedding and stayed over. It has been a while since we saw the pair and it was great catching up before they went to the wedding yesterday and today before and after lunch at the Layer Fox. I am not sure when they are to come this way again, but we would happily put them up again. 

The children have been busy decorating the house for Halloween. They had wanted to do this before, but I finally brought down things this evening. Sadly, this has included a bow tie for Leia which she wears with dignity. My wife says it makes her look like a boy, but I think that her beard gives her that appearance! 

Trevor Noah on racism and Rishi Sunak

There has been controversy over the comments that Trevor Noah has made about Rishi Sunak and racism in the UK.  The simple fact is that racism is still an issue for too many people in the UK.  Things are much better than they have been in the past in that we now have a non-white PM who Conservative MP's have voted on who they think is the best person for the job.  There was a time that the Conservatives were the party of racism, and while many would argue that not much has changed with the policies on refugees, Rishi Sunak shows that a lot has changed.  

The video of Jerry from Lowestoft actually shows how a racist changes the expressed views on Rishi Sunak from outright racism, to finding other reasons as to why they are against our first non-white Prime Minister. Many will not like him due to his skin colour, but this may be a sub-conscious issue, i.e. unconscious bias. It will be hard to discern which people who are against him are against him due to his policies, or if his skin colour is a factor because for them, they will cite the arguments that Jerry from Lowestoft finally resorted to almost eight minutes into the video of his call to LBC.  

A way of looking at how our nation is still racist is not how we treat our Prime Minister, but how we treat refugees coming from Ukraine to those coming from other nations.  We may have to exclude Albania from this as it does seem to appear that those fleeing Albania are more likely to be economic migrants than genuine asylum seekers.  Put simply, refugees from Ukraine, despite being in safe nations have rightly been granted asylum, but many in our nation do not want to offer the same to refugees fleeing Afghanistan, Iran Eritrea, Chad, Yemen, Sudan, Syria etc.     

Thursday morning update

The children appear to be enjoying half term.  My wife has taken time off to look after them, though she may need a holiday after this.  On Tuesday they had gone shopping with her, which meant that Leia was at the dog sitters until yesterday when my son and wife collected her.  Needless to say, the dog was very happy to be back home.  I did go to the shops with my son so that he could cook dinner.  Normally he is very good at making Katsu Curry, but his efforts yesterday were sadly not up to his normal standard.  I have bought pumpkins for them to paint, but the condition of him having it is that his room is tidy, which has meant that his pumpkin is still in the back of my car!  Hopefully that will change.

The picture is from my morning walk today with Leia.  Finally, remember that in the run up to Halloween, a witch is not just for that one day, but is meant to be scary all year long!