Blogging is HARD WORK!!!

I just realised that it's soccer night again - and I haven't blogged since some-time prior to last weeks game - which incidentally we lost. This means, of course, that I've done nothing worth writing about - which won't stop me writing about it anyway.

MOVIES

2 movies to report.

The Incredible Hulk.
I took Connick to see this. It's okay - but not great. I still say Iron Man is the best of the Marvel superhero movies. I actually preferred the first Hulk - because it was more "cartoony".

Kung Fu Panda.
I took both the kids to see this on Sunday night. I hadn't been all that keen based on the previews - but Danny assured me it was LOL funny, if not ROFLPIP funny!

I wouldn't go that far - but I did enjoy it. It's VERY Jack Black.

It's also ironic that I saw this film, as I have recently developed something of an obsession with Kung Fu. Well, ironic in an Alanis Morissette sort of way.

Connick went to his first Karate lesson recently - and I decided I might like to take lessons as well. Which then led me to researching Martial Arts, and deciding that I'd really like to study Kung Fu. Unfortunately there's no one local providing Kung Fu training, so I ordered some books from Amazon.

I can definitely feel a new hobby coming on!!!

BOOKS

Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham

I loved this one - definitely one of his best. It's King-esque, but far more streamlined.

Dirt Music - Tim Winton

I've been meaning to read Tim Winton for some time - and finally borrowed this one from Many and Dave .... the Trumpets.

This is an excellent book. I know this to be true because the cover has stickers telling me about the various awards it won. I also know this to be true because I read it.

It's a style of book that I've not read much of - in fact the most similar author I can recall reading is the mysterious H.M.Brown - who you may remember from such memorable blog posts as ... well ... some of my earlier ones.

It's a book primarily about people, rather than happenings.

Literary folk would probably call it a "character study".

Movie folk would probably call it "a terrible investment".

I'd call it " a really good about about people".

The World Set Free - H.G. Wells

This is interesting, as it traces the events following the harnessing of atomic power, and the developmnent and aerial deployment of atomic bombs. Why is this interesting? Because the book was published in 1914, and Ernest Rutherford did not "split" an atom for the first time until 1919, and the Manhattan Project which developed the first atomic weapons did not commence until 1941.

Nontheless, intersting though it may be in its foresight, it's just not a great book. It's okay, but if you, as I, have more books to read than lifetime left in which to read them, you can probably pass this one over.

I only finished this one last night, so I haven't started another one yet.

ADVENTURES IN SLOW COOKING

Suzy bought a slow cooker recently, so last Saturday I slow cooked a lamb curry (and somewhat less slowly cooked a vegetable curry). Curry was followed by Puerto Rico with the Scotts and Roddas. Not for me though - I had to slip off to bed to nip an emerging migraine in the bud.

I can see the slow cooker opening up a new world in culinary delights. And it's already got me thinking about my next great investion ... the even slower cooker!!!!


That will have to do for now - but I shall endeavour in future to be both less tardy and more interesting.