First of all, the most important issue, family. My son went out last night to Trick Or Treat with a friend and appeared to have fun dressing in my vampire cloak doing so. My daughter had been out with friends earlier in the day to go to the local Escape Room. Considering that yesterday was the last day of freedom before they return to school after the week off for half term, they both deserved it. We handed out sweets with tongs to reduce the risk of COVID contamination when people came round.
Second, Arsenal. Aaron Ramsdale was amazing. I thought (and still think) that Leno is great, but this youngster hopefully will be the future of Arsenal. This game was one I expected to lose. After all, we have not travelled that well and were up against a decent side. To win in the way we did brings about hope for the rest of the season, and to make things better, the scum lost as well!
Finally, the film. This was on my Netflix recommended list and I thought that it was worth it. It was a battle that I did not know too much about and I felt that this carried across some of the horrors of war very well. The acting and directing were great and this is a must watch for those who are interested in good quality war films.
While I think that the best bit of the film is the soundtrack, that does not mean that I did not enjoy it. It had gore, twists and appealed to my sick sense of humour (though it is not a comedy). While we watched it on Netflix, I would have been more than happy to have watched this in a cinema and I am looking forwards to watching the second part. I felt it was written, directed and acted well and it will be interesting to see if the sequel stands up to this.
However, me son changed his mind and wanted to watch The Addams Family, so I put it on, but tricked him as he had wanted us to watch the animated version. To be fair, he stayed and watched it, even though he was tempted to leave before the end.
I knew I liked he film, but did not realise how much of it I had forgotten. Yes, the CGI is dated, and parts of the plot were predictable, but this film is a great one, well put together with some classic scenes. In fact, we all liked it, and especially as family film experiences are becoming rarer, that was the most important part.
At present, I am discussing this on Twitter with someone who refuses to acknowledge the seriousness of this. Put simply, over millions of years, carbon dioxide has been locked away out of the atmosphere. We need to act to drastically reduce the amount of fossil fuels that are putting this back into the atmosphere as well as looking at methods of carbon capture that means that we can take it out of it as well.
