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Hallow Road – I hated it!
I hated this film! It was shouty, hysterical, improbable and overacted. I should have walked out after 20 minutes – it had crossed my mind. I should have been forewarned by the ‘haunting’ in “a nerve-wracking thriller that takes audiences down a haunting path”.
Two overwrought parents talk in their car to a distressed daughter. That’s the first 70 minutes and then there’s 10 minutes of puzzlement. It wasn’t my cup of tea.
I saw this at the David Lean Cinema in Croydon. A word of advice if you’re planning to watch a film there – create an account first! All you need is name/address/email. If you don’t, then when you come to buy your ticket you’ll add to a lengthening queue as your details are taken for an account to be set up – before buying your ticket! And make sure you can access your email from your phone because that’s where they send your digital ticket!!
Curiously the film started 5 or so minutes late. The projectionist (?!) stood in front of the screen and announced that there was an ‘unknown server error’. My dad was a cinema projectionist in the 1950s – he wouldn’t have foreseen the change from film to digital.
I said to a couple as I was exiting that I thought it was the worst film I had ever seen.
Their only response was that they didn’t understand the ending.No comments on Hallow Road – I hated it! -
Standen House
An enjoyable visit to this National Trust property in West Sussex. The pictures taken with the iPhone were disappointing although the ones in the garden were better and colourful.
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I’ve been listening to John Lennon
Bless You – a new John Lennon track to me and a rather nice one. It is a ballad expressing his love for his wife Yoko Ono, from whom he was separated at the time.
Bless you wherever you are
Windswept child on a shooting star
Restless Spirits depart
Still we’re deep in each other’s heartsSome people say it’s over
Now that we spread our wings
But we know better darling
The hollow ring is only last year’s echoBless you whoever you are
Holding her now
Be warm and kind hearted
And remember though love is strange
Now and forever our love will remain -
Polesden Lacey
iPhone images in raw format
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I’ve been listening to Yussef Dayes
I came across them on the tv playing this piece at Glastonbury. Not everyone’s cup of tea but I like it. Best played through headsets or speakers.
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Teddington mid-evening
Taken with the iPhone…
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A café in the woods
Another very hot day but there was a lot of shade and the sun was always behind me. A variation in what has become my favourite walk led me to find a fabulous mobile café in the woods. It was a treat at the end to have lunch at a lovely pub in Leatherhead. A mixture of camera and iPhone images, which I’m very happy with.
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Westhumble to Leatherhead (again)
I’ve done this walk 3 or more times over the past couple of years. I wish the first mile or so wasn’t uphill, but apart from that it’s a walk I will continue returning to.
I was convinced I’d come across a small, wild strawberry, so I ate it and it tasted like a strawberry and I wasn’t poisoned – but I think it may have been a raspberry!
I came across an elderly (80 years old), Japanese (possibly) gentleman on the walk. He walks 5 miles a day round these hills and paths and up to the age of 72 he had run them. I’m glad I made the effort to talk to him. Mid-walk I had a sandwich and a mug of tea at the splendid Bocketts Farm. At the edge of a field I counted 11 horses. Further on there was a heron proudly overlooking the river. A nice walk on a rather hot day – and the trains behaved themselves.
All pictures taken with the camera – so much better.
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Wells-next-the-Sea bits
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Wells to Stiffkey
Second walk of the day!
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