Friday continued

I tried to write a long post yesterday but I was up late and my laptop obviously wanted to go to bed before I did and it crashed, so I could only post part of a post, on the topic of my new phone, on the subject of which I’ve been playing with the camera on it today, I love the macro function on it, here’s a flower in Pizza Express.

Taken with the Sony Cyber-shot 3.2 megapixel camera on the Sony Ericcson K800 phone

But back to Friday; Girl Lacer came home with her first ever bit of school cooking.

Can you guess what it is?

It’s a Gruffalo biscuit! Honestly sometimes I wish I were the one going to nursery, now I don’t know about other nurseries so I don’t know if in comparison Girl Lacer’s nursery is an extremely good one or not (although every local mum around here wants to get their kid into this nursery) but anyway I have a feeling this nursery is pretty different as I thought most nurseries were slightly more advanced playgroups (with a bit of counting thrown in) but Girl Lacer’s nursery has themes, they’ve been doing books recently and they’ve been doing the Gruffalo, so they’ve been making biscuits, Gruffalo crumble (mud pies) and they have these wonderful play tables set up where it’d be like a miniature Gruffalo forest. The other day they were doing a book about penguins so it was a table full of ice cubes. Even when they’re not doing a specific book, they’ll set the tables up as farms or horse jumping grounds (complete with mud), the water table (which we walk past on drop off) changes seemingly daily, with various themes of things floating or submerged, the water a different colour or even (and this looked very glam) glitter floating in it, so like I say I want to stay and play!

Anyway the other thing of note for Friday was me and Mr. Lacer made sure the kids were promptly in bed and we had a bit of a film night. We use the lovefilm service and have a prioritised list but often or not we don’t get movies very high on that list but we were treated with two movies very high on our list this week so we wanted to watch both of them straight away.

The first was The Number 23 starring Jim Carrey, now not that I go to the cinema much anymore (sob) but I am usually aware of which movies are out but this one totally passed me by, so it was only a trailer on the front of another rental DVD the piqued my interest. Now I am most definitely not a fan of Jim Carrey, too much gurning and light hearted mirth but he’s different in this movie and actually (and I never thought I’d say this) Jim Carrey is actually quite good looking, probably aided by a hair cut making him look spookily like my husband.

In a way Jim Carrey plays two roles in this movie and in his other role, he doesn’t look quite like my husband (thankfully, as the character is a bit of psycho) but still he’s rather good looking.

Anyway other than discussing Jim Carrey’s strangely finer merits, what is this movie about? Well rather obviously the number 23, Jim Carrey’s character upon coming upon a book in a second hand book store becomes obsessed with the number 23, believing that the book is about his life, with tragic consequences. A bit of a strange movie but worth watching just for it’s uniqueness.

The other movie in our film night was 28 Weeks Later, the sequel to 28 Days Later, which I loved, even though it was extremely gruesome and 28 Weeks Later didn’t disappoint on that front. I’m not a big fan of horror movies, but sorry to come over all patriotic but I do think British ones are just about watchable, american ones all seem to be ‘lets get the babysitter and/or other random foolish teens’, whereas British ones are a little bit more intelligent. I especially like movies from the pairing of Alex Garland and Danny Boyle, they wrote / directed 28 Days Later respectively and also did the excellent Sunshine, which is pure classic sci-fi with a horror twist. Alex Garland of course also wrote the fantastic The Beach, one of those books which had everyone reading the same thing on the bus / tube a la Harry Potter style back in ‘97 (god was that really 11 years ago?), he unfortunately didn’t have much to do with the awful movie adaptation, he wrote more books, I struggled through Tessaract and gave up half way through The Coma, anyway I think he writes better movie scripts these days.Anyway in 28 Weeks Later unsurprisingly the rage virus from the original movie reappears, rampaging through the Isles of Dogs, an area I know very well, so that was fun. The movie was literally toe curling, but I’m glad I watched it even though Garland and Boyle were just executive producers of this one.