Spring forward

Except for when you are unaware of the pending time change and therefore are alarmed by the church bells ringing in the end point of the service pattern just as you are about to walk outside. So, you take your shoes off and make yourself a nice cuppa tea.

Tip of the day (thanks to Paul): a pint of Guinness a day is good for your heart! Thank goodness I'm going to Dublin next weekend!

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Rainy afternoon:
In true Coen Brothers fashion, Romance and Cigarettes flaps about in an absolutely charmingly schitzophrenic manner, quite over the top, but reaches a heart-wrenching human depth that is unusual. Even people with strange aversions to musical infiltration into storylines would have to admit slight amusement at the mockery of 'traditional' musical style. I loved it. Hiroko needs to see it with subtitles as she was left a bit befuddled by the story. Beautiful colors, camera angles. Kate Winslet's underwater sequence is lovely and poignant. And Christopher Walken as a left-over Elvis fan is outrageously and hysterically unexpected.