And I think we’re all cinema’d out for a while ;).
Ady dropped us in Brighton on his way to local stores saving us that £7 parking cost today. We were about half an hour early so took the change to pop into the shops to get a birthday present for Ben which involved two lifts, four escalators and two toy shops.
Back to the cinema where we tagged on the end of a school group going into the cinema although we almost didn’t get the door held open for us as the teacher looked fairly sneeringly at us and told the cinema worker that ‘they’re not with us!’. I won’t rant about school groups again, having done it fairly comprehensively in the past but I just hate the way the adults talk to and treat the children, the way the children react in response and indeed being in the company of a big school group for any great length of time. I was quite surprised that The Simpsons was easily the most well patronised screening we’ve attended, wondering just what was found in it to build a lesson around, particularly as plenty of the gags were well above the heads of a lot of the children and the ones that weren’t were fairly juvenille. Good film though, we enjoyed it. 🙂 Scarlett sat and watched the whole thing, Davies gave a fair few belly laughs and I did a couple of laugh out louds too. It was a screening with subtitles so often I was laughing before the line had been said which actually was quite nice – I like the idea of anticipatory humour.
We scrambled out first before the regimented crocodile formation organisation started clogging up everywhere (just one small rant then, why the hell do school group adults have to be so bloody inconsiderate of others? If we’re out as a group – eg when we’ve been on group trips at camps, I’m always really aware of the inconvenience to others of us being in a gaggle and will shepherd us to one side to allow little groups to go first etc. All of the adults with the school groups today were totally oblivious to just how much impact they and their charges might be having on other people. Really annoys me) and having rung Ady to arrange a meeting place walked along the seafront to the pier – about a ten minute amble. We looked at the two piers – the West pier, now almost totally decimated and fallen into the sea and the Palace pier, all glitzy but with that slightly seedy air that seaside towns have in daylight in winter. I was slightly kicking myself at that point that a) we’d not come on the train after all as I had this sudden fleeting feeling of utter freedom watching the school groups still lining up behind us and being marched back to school while we were able to wander along the beach and on such a beautiful day could have decided to go down to the sea and play in the waves and b) that I’d not brought my camera because the light, the scenery and the wind blowing was all very picturesque. But we met up with Ady and he dropped us home.
Ali wasn’t able to make it over and after a brief text exchange with Lucy I realised I was actually feeling really quite weary, shivering and a bit headachey so my half-plan to get the kids dressed up and head down to the local beach was shelved in favour of sitting in the warm playing on the laptops. I installed Zoo Tycoon on both mine and Ady’s and Davies and Scarlett played on one, while I played on the other. That’s a pretty good way to waste time too :lol:. So good infact that I made them a pretty late tea which they ate watching The Little Vampire and when Ady got home I retired to the bath for about an hour with a book.
I think I have finally succumbed to the cold that’s plagued Davies and Scarlett this week but judging by their speedy recoveries hopefully it was just one day of feeling a bit rough and I’ll be fine by tomorrow. Julie is here in the morning and my brother in the afternoon which delighted Davies ‘I’m just being looked after with people from my family!’ and Scarlett ‘yay, Uncle Frazer! :)’ .
Hope you are feeling better today and really peed off not to have been able to come over.
Comment by Ali — 19 October 2007 @ 9:21 am