Mistletoe / The duo's birthday

[lathany]

Today we opened the first Advent window and this entry - I hope - begins my month of daily posts. The window was reassuringly mistletoe (we've had calendars in recent years where the windows really weren't Xmassy) and the candle will be unwrapped and lit tonight.

Last week was the duo's birthday. This involved a trip to Pizza Express and the London Eye on Sunday. The duo were wusses about their pizzas and one of the serving staff had to cut them with a pizza cutter. However, the London Eye was a great success.



Ryan took endless photos while Bea wandered around gazing at the view. Afterwards we went to see the free video (3D with bubbles) and bought Krispy Kremes which we scoffed on the train going home. The only downside is that I fell over climbing the stairs to collect tickets hurting both knees and my ankle - fortunately the bruises are nearly gone.

Their actual birthday featured cake (Ryan's) and presents. They loved all the things people had bought for them. Bea is particularly taken with her present from zandev and glittertigger, a playstation game that uses an eye to cast spells Harry Potter style. She's also very keen on her laptop (from us). Ryan likes his new photo storage (also from us), but is especially keen on the present he got from his school - a pen that colours in shiny blue ink. The Bea cake (coffee as requested) will appear tomorrow (now that the other one has been eaten) so I will be baking tomorrow morning.

We have watched a couple of films since I last posted - Angel-A and Hugo.

• Angel-A - This was lent to me by a work friend and we liked it, it's short (90 minutes) but fun. The premise is simple - saving someone - and the resulting film is mainly a dialogue between the two characters involved (rescuer and rescuee). However, it's rather too fond of its discussion of morality, understandable but dull.
• Hugo - This had a Christmas Children's Fantasy feel to it because of the sets, the colouring and the story. It's a beautiful movie, worth watching and with a good story. The cast are great (and include Hit-Girl and Ali G) and the automatons reminded me of the Syberia computer games (and Jethey Dancer).

There's also been a Seventh Sea session - courtesy of wildrogue, sadly our last until Christmas. The session itself boded with grand plot and mind-controlled powerful NPCs. The mine with its mostly-closed gateway to hell was very atmospheric.

Comments

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

It might be worth mentioning for the benefit of anyone considering watching Angel-A that you mean saving here in the spiritual sense rather than in the "rescue the princess from the castle" sense!

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Or in the "committing them to a file in case of an unexpected crash" sense?

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Sort of like Total Recall without the twist?

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Or maybe like Memento, although that had a very lossy storage protocol.