I wish I knew how to break the spell..

Late yesterday Davies told Ady that he *really* wanted to go and see Flushed Away and that he wanted to go and see it with me so Ady had said he’d check with me and see if that was feasible to do today. Due to both of us being paid really early for Christmas we are fairly flush at the moment but I fully anticipate not being able to eat anything other than pasta by the second week in January so in the spirit of ‘living in the moment’ and of knowing full well that if Davies got taken to the cinema Tarly would be (rightfully) pissed off and having also realised that actually Ady has never been to the cinema with the children I checked film times at the two cinemas in Brighton and discovered that you can buy family tickets at really quite reasonable prices. And being one of the few families I know where we only have two children 😉 a family ticket would indeed be suitable for our family at a reasonable price (infact close to the price of a dvd) so we decided to do it.

This morning there was much playing with various Christmas gifts then we left the house around 11am to go to Brighton. We had a quick trip round Asda to purchase fizzy drinks and popcorn at about a fifth of the price it would cost in the cinema (and Tarly and I checked out the clothing sale upstairs – she’ll make a great shopping companion that girl, she picked out a lovely jumper I couldn’t afford for me, which I reluctantly put back on the rail) and then headed to the cinema. The cinema itself was pretty busy but Flushed Away was showing in a screen room which the heating had broken down in which may have contributed to it being really quite empty.

I thought the film was quite good, Ady and the children loved it and thought it was excellent. It was clearly an Aardman production, from the face shapes of the main characters to the references to W&G I spotted at least two of and the Very British Humour, with all the gloss of a Dreamworks production – I enjoyed Hugh Jackmans voice and having image googled him I can see he lives up to that voice 😳

We left Brighton and visited Sainsburys and Tescos on the way home picking up lots of ‘luxury’ food all reduced to 50pence as it’s best before date was up but we bunged in our freezer for future use during leaner times (so those last couple of weeks of January will see us eating bite sized nan bread loaded with chicken jalfrezi, brie in breadcrumbs and the like :lol:). Dinner for the children including the novelty of their Christmas present Big Kids Cutlery.

I’m working in the morning (can it really be Thursday already?) but only for 3 hours due to a pro rata bank holiday time off type thing and am hoping for loads of people hiring out exercise videos, borrowing Atkins diet books and cabbage soup diet manuals in order to satisfy all my stereotypical new years resolutions ideas about people. 😆