…I gave you my heart.

Merry Christmas everyone, happy holidays and all that jazz. I trust you all had a good year and I look forward to another fine year with you all as we go on.

My efforts to be inclusive this year extend also to the Norwegians, Finnish and Swedish.

• Merry Christmas and a happy new year
• Frohe Weinachten, und ein frohes neues Jahr
• Joyeux Noël et bonne année
• Nadolig llawen, a blwyddyn newydd dda
• חג מולד שמח ושנה טובה
• God Jul og Godt Nyttår
• God jul og gott Nytt År
• Hyvää Joulua ja Onnellista Uutta Vuotta

I’ll see you all in the new year for more fun and games and of course, serious hard work :-)

…The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Today I went to see this film and I have to say that I really really enjoyed it. It was bright, beautifully shot, delightfully scored, well translated from the book to the screen and overall a joy to watch. Georgie Henley Skandar Keynes William Moseley and Anna Popplewell did superb jobs as the Pevensie children and Tilda Swinton was very very good as the white witch, despite the fact that many feel she wasn’t “evil” enough. I came away from the film feeling buoyed up on the emotions and very satisfied by the whole experience.

Interestingly, one actor stuck in my mind. James McAvoy who plays Mr Tumnus was someone who I knew I’d seen before but could not place. Fortunately once I got home, IMDb was indeed my friend and reminded me of the fantastic Inside I’m dancing which I had the pleasure of watching once on a plane. By far and away the most rewarding of any in-flight film I’ve ever seen. If you get the opportunity, watch it. Do.

Today while driving into Cambridge, to work with my friend and colleague Daf, I was listening to the radio to fill the quiet in the car and was subjected to what I was told was a popular track among today’s youth.

I couldn’t help but be amazed by its apalling lack of redeeming features, indeed by being in “english” it is only made worse.

Black Eyed Peas -- My Humps

What you gon' do with all that junk?
All that junk inside your trunk?
I'ma get, get, get, get, you drunk,
Get you love drunk off my hump.
My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely little lumps. (Check it out)
...
My love, my love, my love, my love
You love my lady lumps,
My hump, my hump, my hump,
My humps they got u,
...

Urgh

…ravishingly beautiful hair with manageability you never before thought possible

Yeesh!