This film, directed by Tarsem Singh who is currently directing The Immortals with Mickey Rourke, is one you should watch. Set back in the day in Los Angeles when silent films were getting going, the story is about a little girl with a broken arm and an injured stuntman with a broken heart. The two come [...]
The American Bureau of Land Management stands on one side of the arguement and many horse-loving folks – including the likes of Viggo Mortensen – stand on the other. BLM says it needs to remove mustangs and burros from various parcels of ranges as their numbers are too great for the range to support. It’s [...]
A peculiarly British invention. The best place for this isn’t one of the overpriced London Hotels, or indeed one of the Betty’s cafes. Here is where to go – Mill Farm Nurseries Tea Rooms at South Milford. At a Betty’s each person would pay either £15.75 or £17.75 (why there should be a £2 difference is not at [...]
Stacks of them in our village – Rider amongst them! A reliable source said Greeny (name disguised)- a known member of the species – arrived at the pub in a taxi accompanied by a goat. The taxi driver may have been a friend but more likely didn’t like to refuse some money or was a [...]
If you walk along the River Nidd at Knaresborough you might just come across the place where Brer Rabbit and his family live. Today the family were out in force across the river … chasing about playing rabbit games…in and out of their front doors… nibbling the fresh spring grass. Brer Rabbit was probably inside [...]
BA are advertising flights to Europe on the MSN website despite all planes being grounded in the UK and parts of Europe. A volcano in Iceland, with an unprounceable name to anyone but an Icelander, is pouring out particles of glass into the atmosphere. These particles kill aircraft engines so it’s too dangerous to fly [...]
Fell to talking with Him Indoors about the possible strike of Railway Signalmen – postponed until their Union gets the ballot done correctly. At the moment they work 3 x 12 hour shifts over 3 days so they get the other 4 days off. Without knowing all the ins and outs, it seems as if [...]
Barely containable excitement at Rider’s – what will come through the letterbox today in the way of leaflets exhorting Rider to vote for this party or that. Each party has such different promises – to reduce crime, spend more money on schools/hospitals/pensioners/families/single people/anyone with blue eyes… Local Council elections double the reading matter. With nearly [...]
It all happens in this village. We’re close to an ‘attraction’ – a big old house with a bird and animal garden. Quite a few different small animals in the paddocks, including wallabies. This morning we’ve had a police car going round with a loudspeaker warning of an escaped wallaby. We’ve all been checking our [...]
