Challenge 16

Challenge 16 - Watch a classic film/read a classic book you've never got around to before.
When it comes to films, you know I wasn't just going to watch ONE classic movie, right?  I have a few more in the line up for future watching but I'll restrain myself for now...
Picnic at Hanging Rock was more wonderful than I expected - it was dreamy and nostalgic and mysterious, and one of those few movies that I felt lived up to the hype.
The Philadelphia Story had James Stewart.  I have a huge (inappropriate?) crush on James Stewart.  So I tolerated Katharine Hepburn and her stupid voice to watch this.  Totally worth it.
Casino Royale was actually read a few months ago but I wanted to wait until I'd watched a classic movie to post the challenge!  It was pretty good, but had a definite lack of jumping off cranes and other such big screen antics.  THAT torture scene from the movie is very much a part of the book though...

(Check out the rest of the list here!)

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A trip to Glasgow...

So I got to hang out with Sarah on Friday!  We ate pretzels, drooled over stationery in Paperchase and watched Great Gatsby (me for the second time in two days...it was still good ;)).  And look how lovely the weather was!  We thought it was a sign that summer is finally appearing but then of course it rained all day yesterday, hmph.

Leanne also came along to hang out and help us take pictures without balancing our cameras on a bin this time.  So that was handy.  I managed to restrain myself on the shopping front and just picked up a fun pen in Paperchase and a bracelet in the new Forever 21 - that shop is insane!  Three levels of clothing, most of it far too young for me.  (Yeah I felt pretty old in there...)  After the cinema we went for yummy pasta with chips and garlic bread - it was carb-tastic!

We made tentative plans for another meet up in a few months, when Sarah calms her life down a bit!  In the meantime we have an exciting new venture coming up later this week, stand by for more details soon!

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Friday Films

Ok, I watched a lot of movies this week.  I had a couple of days off together and one of them had terrible weather so I got all creative and square eyed in the house.  I don't know about anyone else but I can't just watch a movie - I also need to have knitting in hand/laptop on lap/something to potter about with...

There were disappointingly few great movies this week - Patch Adams was 90s feel-good and The Unloved was depressing in a good way.  I thought Working Girl was a crazy spoof of something when I saw the insane hair and make-up, but unfortunately it was definitely taking itself seriously.  The Sweetest Thing and Land of the Lost were truly terrible (which I predicted in advance, so I've only myself to blame), I remember almost nothing about Carriers and I spent most of The Roommate trying to work out which one was Leighton Meester (the other girl looks really like her!).  Good Morning Vietnam reminded me of Steve Carell doing Michael Scott, which made my day slightly.  Zombieland was still fab and Hannah and Her Sisters is now one of two Woody Allen movies I don't hate (the other being Midnight in Paris, cause Tom Hiddleston).  The rest were meh.

Has anyone seen any of these?  Share your opinions in the comments!

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This Week I...

 ...got all crafty and learned how to make friendship bracelets (using this tutorial)!  How did I not know how to do this before?  At school they were all the rage but we all made plaited ones (because they were quick and easy most likely!).  This took a few hours of knotting but I had some films to watch so it was a good way to spend the evening.  I'm calling it the 'Good Morning Vietnam' bracelet in tribute!

...ate a lot of yummy food, went walking in the rain, chickened out of going down an awesome slide in favour of a dry butt, found fabby DRINKS WITH HATS in M&S and finished re-reading the first Dark Materials book.  The second one sure is dragging more than I remember...

dress - M&S (here)
Converse - gift
Necklace - remade from keyring

...wore mostly work clothes, since I did an extra shift this week in order to get tomorrow off - guess who's going to hang out with Sarah Rooftops in Glasgow?!  That would be me...

tshirt - New Look Tall (here)
jeans - Long Tall Sally (here)

...wore non work clothes to go a walk, and inadvertently dressed the same as Leanne.  Right down to the cap sleeves on our tshirts.  Great minds...  Although her tshirt has a super cool Superman logo and mine is boring.  Or neutral, shall we say ;)

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At Moffat's house...

the bookcase

a very small part of the vintage telephone collection

retro calculators

another viewpoint

excellent fridge decor

My friend Moffat is a giant nerd and a big collector of various items, mostly related to vintage technology.  The other night when I was round visiting, I kept seeing interesting bits everywhere - strange, since I've been there so often but it's just occurred to me to start photographing it all!  Everywhere I looked there was something new to discover.  You can just see the Valentines card from his girlfriend in the phone picture - a word spelled out in binary code.  They work pretty well together ;)  I have a plan to head back soon and take some more pictures, especially of the telephone and pin badge collections, the latter of which I found on Friday and couldn't stop looking at!

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