I was recently scanning pics for period movies and series that I have liked or wish to see...also something to put up for the group in Facebook. If you like it, please say so... :)
Sunday, July 26, 2009
A little thing I made...
I was recently scanning pics for period movies and series that I have liked or wish to see...also something to put up for the group in Facebook. If you like it, please say so... :)
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Period Movie Challenge
Well, I have decided to take up the challenge posted on this website recently brought to my attention: http://lightscamerahistory.com/period-drama-challenge/
I think it ought to be a lot of fun. Haven't watched too many period movies lately, though must admit that I saw 'Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day' the other evening, and enjoyed it thoroughly. Hope that there are more out there like that one. Just a nice, easy romance, with a bit of fun and laughter as well.
Anyway...must try to choose which theme/s I'll cover in the challenge. Any suggestions, people?
I think it ought to be a lot of fun. Haven't watched too many period movies lately, though must admit that I saw 'Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day' the other evening, and enjoyed it thoroughly. Hope that there are more out there like that one. Just a nice, easy romance, with a bit of fun and laughter as well.
Anyway...must try to choose which theme/s I'll cover in the challenge. Any suggestions, people?
Sunday, April 19, 2009
A Story of Mine
This is a little story I made up, oh, a few years ago now. Enjoy. I thought that it was funny when I read over it just a few minutes ago, and wanted to share it.
Afternoons with Austen
By Nelle
“Well, I’m glad that it finished like that,” Charlotte said, “after all they have been through. They deserved to be happy.”
“You are such a romantic!” her companion cried, rolling his eyes. “When are you going to grow up? Things don’t happen like they did…two hundred years ago. ‘Persuasion’ is just a novel!” He had seen her grab a couple of tissues when the two main characters had finally got together in the end.
“But it just goes to show that humans haven’t changed over the years,” Charlotte replied.
“Okay, apart from the fact that it’s just a book, and a movie, how?”
“Well, there are still people in the world who are so easily persuaded; so easily stubborn as well,” adding the last bit as an afterthought. “Also, there are still people out there who want other people’s things, no matter what. Coveting…it’s a bad thing.”
“I suppose next you’ll say that people with second chances aren’t so easily persuaded the second time round,” he replied. Glenn couldn’t find anything else to say to Charlotte because it was true, though he hated to admit it.
“It depends on the circumstances, I suppose,” Charlotte said.
“Like what?”
“Well…” She paused, trying to collect a line of argument. “Like in ‘Persuasion’, if you were asked by the…girl you loved (I’m saying this for you, Glenn!) a second time, after eight years of separation, would you be persuaded against marrying her, like you were the first time?”
Glenn sighed. He knew one of Charlotte’s arguments was coming on. “No, I suppose not…If I still loved her. But what other circumstances are there?”
“Okay then. Well…If you had murdered someone,” Charlotte started, receiving a groan from Glenn, “and you got a second chance of undoing that wrong –”
“Okay…enough. You’ve proved your point,” Glenn interrupted. Charlotte always went on and on when she started.
“But I haven’t –”
“Finished. Oh, yes, you have. I know you – I’ve known you for years. Once you start talking, you go round and round in circles, and lose everyone, including yourself,” he retorted.
She glared at him for a moment, then smiled. Really, he wasn’t that bad a friend, and to actually sit through ‘Persuasion’ – one of Charlotte’s favourite Austin films – was a great feat for him, she knew. “Alright,” she said. “Did you enjoy it, anyway?”
“What, seeing those guys dressed up like that,” he answered, thinking that he was going to get her arguing again.
“But they look so stylish,” she said, wondering what his response would be. He looked at her blankly. He had taken in the costumes, and what the people had looked like in them, and never had he thought them stylish. “Oh-kay,” Charlotte said with a laugh in her voice and a broad smile. “I can see plainly by your face you didn’t think them stylish. Well…I can show you stylish. I just have to change disks.” Moving forward off the lounge in her TV room, she reached the DVD player before Glenn could say a word.
Exasperated by the way he was being treated, Glenn threw a cushion at Charlotte. “Don’t you dare put another one of those movies on,” he threatened. “I lost a bet, and watched ‘Persuasion’, but if you think I’m going to watch another one, the answer is emphatically NO!”
“It’s not another one. It’s a series…” – he groaned – “‘Pride and Prejudice’ is the book that was written, and I have to get the disk to the right chapter – to the Netherfield Ball, where Lizzy and Darcy dance for the first time! Now, that is where they wear stylish clothes,” Charlotte announced with something akin to pride in her voice. Glenn rolled his eyes as though to say ‘Heaven help me!’, but Charlotte just ignored his dramatics.
When Charlotte had got the disk ready and to the right chapter, she pressed play, smiling at Glenn as she did so. “This is the perfect spot. Just have a look at their clothes here. They are simply stunning some of them,” she announced. Glenn looked at the screen and sighed, watching the characters as they were ‘arriving’ at the ball. He then glanced towards his friend, and decided, with a glimmer of a smile on his face, to try and bait her again. “Is that the main girl of the story? What’s her name?” he asked.
Charlotte kept watching the screen. “Elizabeth Bennett, if you had been listening in class!” was all the reply he received.
“Oh…,” he said, disappointed with her response so far. The look of devilry, though, hadn’t left his face. “She doesn’t look too bad. Her figure isn’t too bad, either. And her hair, done like that, looks pretty nice.”
“Glenn! You’re supposed to be looking at their clothes! Not their figure!” Charlotte cried out, grabbing the nearest cushion and throwing it at him. She saw that he was smiling like he always did when she had been snared by his comments. “Oh! When will you grow up?” she exclaimed.
“Gotchya’” was the only response she got from him.
Afternoons with Austen
By Nelle
“Well, I’m glad that it finished like that,” Charlotte said, “after all they have been through. They deserved to be happy.”
“You are such a romantic!” her companion cried, rolling his eyes. “When are you going to grow up? Things don’t happen like they did…two hundred years ago. ‘Persuasion’ is just a novel!” He had seen her grab a couple of tissues when the two main characters had finally got together in the end.
“But it just goes to show that humans haven’t changed over the years,” Charlotte replied.
“Okay, apart from the fact that it’s just a book, and a movie, how?”
“Well, there are still people in the world who are so easily persuaded; so easily stubborn as well,” adding the last bit as an afterthought. “Also, there are still people out there who want other people’s things, no matter what. Coveting…it’s a bad thing.”
“I suppose next you’ll say that people with second chances aren’t so easily persuaded the second time round,” he replied. Glenn couldn’t find anything else to say to Charlotte because it was true, though he hated to admit it.
“It depends on the circumstances, I suppose,” Charlotte said.
“Like what?”
“Well…” She paused, trying to collect a line of argument. “Like in ‘Persuasion’, if you were asked by the…girl you loved (I’m saying this for you, Glenn!) a second time, after eight years of separation, would you be persuaded against marrying her, like you were the first time?”
Glenn sighed. He knew one of Charlotte’s arguments was coming on. “No, I suppose not…If I still loved her. But what other circumstances are there?”
“Okay then. Well…If you had murdered someone,” Charlotte started, receiving a groan from Glenn, “and you got a second chance of undoing that wrong –”
“Okay…enough. You’ve proved your point,” Glenn interrupted. Charlotte always went on and on when she started.
“But I haven’t –”
“Finished. Oh, yes, you have. I know you – I’ve known you for years. Once you start talking, you go round and round in circles, and lose everyone, including yourself,” he retorted.
She glared at him for a moment, then smiled. Really, he wasn’t that bad a friend, and to actually sit through ‘Persuasion’ – one of Charlotte’s favourite Austin films – was a great feat for him, she knew. “Alright,” she said. “Did you enjoy it, anyway?”
“What, seeing those guys dressed up like that,” he answered, thinking that he was going to get her arguing again.
“But they look so stylish,” she said, wondering what his response would be. He looked at her blankly. He had taken in the costumes, and what the people had looked like in them, and never had he thought them stylish. “Oh-kay,” Charlotte said with a laugh in her voice and a broad smile. “I can see plainly by your face you didn’t think them stylish. Well…I can show you stylish. I just have to change disks.” Moving forward off the lounge in her TV room, she reached the DVD player before Glenn could say a word.
Exasperated by the way he was being treated, Glenn threw a cushion at Charlotte. “Don’t you dare put another one of those movies on,” he threatened. “I lost a bet, and watched ‘Persuasion’, but if you think I’m going to watch another one, the answer is emphatically NO!”
“It’s not another one. It’s a series…” – he groaned – “‘Pride and Prejudice’ is the book that was written, and I have to get the disk to the right chapter – to the Netherfield Ball, where Lizzy and Darcy dance for the first time! Now, that is where they wear stylish clothes,” Charlotte announced with something akin to pride in her voice. Glenn rolled his eyes as though to say ‘Heaven help me!’, but Charlotte just ignored his dramatics.
When Charlotte had got the disk ready and to the right chapter, she pressed play, smiling at Glenn as she did so. “This is the perfect spot. Just have a look at their clothes here. They are simply stunning some of them,” she announced. Glenn looked at the screen and sighed, watching the characters as they were ‘arriving’ at the ball. He then glanced towards his friend, and decided, with a glimmer of a smile on his face, to try and bait her again. “Is that the main girl of the story? What’s her name?” he asked.
Charlotte kept watching the screen. “Elizabeth Bennett, if you had been listening in class!” was all the reply he received.
“Oh…,” he said, disappointed with her response so far. The look of devilry, though, hadn’t left his face. “She doesn’t look too bad. Her figure isn’t too bad, either. And her hair, done like that, looks pretty nice.”
“Glenn! You’re supposed to be looking at their clothes! Not their figure!” Charlotte cried out, grabbing the nearest cushion and throwing it at him. She saw that he was smiling like he always did when she had been snared by his comments. “Oh! When will you grow up?” she exclaimed.
“Gotchya’” was the only response she got from him.
Sunday, March 08, 2009
And so it is...
My life is getting more and more interesting...not. I have been living at home for the last 7 weeks or so, and it seems longer. Unfortunately. I'm hoping that I shall be able to get used to the idea for another 15 weeks or thereabouts, because I can not afford to move out. I'm saving for a house, you see.
I've been looking at houses in the local paper, and I find that affording 2 bedrooms and a joined lounge/dining room is going to be fun indeed. However, things are looking alright, I just have to save for the deposit, which started at the end of January. Thank goodness for payrises and increases, too, I say.
So, maybe, just maybe, I will be able to afford a new house before the government takes the first home buyers grant away. Fingers crossed.
I've been looking at houses in the local paper, and I find that affording 2 bedrooms and a joined lounge/dining room is going to be fun indeed. However, things are looking alright, I just have to save for the deposit, which started at the end of January. Thank goodness for payrises and increases, too, I say.
So, maybe, just maybe, I will be able to afford a new house before the government takes the first home buyers grant away. Fingers crossed.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
He's Not That Into You
So, I've just watched the movie that this blog is titled. I found it very funny, but also very insightful! Yes...Girls, I recommend this one. It really does say a lot about men. And men, don't be ashamed in going along to watch it, especially if it's just you and other guys, because it can be very good for you to learn what WE think.
It follows eight different people. It's kind of like 'Love Actually', in that it pieces things together for you, everyone is linked somehow. However, it deals with relationships, rather than on what is happening in a person's life.
Personally, I feel as though I'm Geegee, so I'm going to try NOT being her from now on, and get on with life. However, I do not stalk people. That would actually be scary!
Anyway, worth going to see, especially if you love comedy dramas. Enjoy!
It follows eight different people. It's kind of like 'Love Actually', in that it pieces things together for you, everyone is linked somehow. However, it deals with relationships, rather than on what is happening in a person's life.
Personally, I feel as though I'm Geegee, so I'm going to try NOT being her from now on, and get on with life. However, I do not stalk people. That would actually be scary!
Anyway, worth going to see, especially if you love comedy dramas. Enjoy!
Sunday, February 15, 2009
My Birthday is coming up...
It is, yet again, a fairly long time since I last posted. Six months, or thereabouts. Enough to need a new post.
I have been overseas, and it was a fair amount of fun. Got to see lots of different things, and meet a lot of new people, and not understand a word of what some people were saying! The joys of travelling in Europe: a new language nearly every single day! Overall, I enjoyed it immensely and would recommend anyone doing it.
I went through Contiki for my trip, and chose one that went for 3 weeks. Trust me, that amount of time is enough for anyone travelling. You are pretty much on each other's nerves by the end of it, and are sick of living out of a suitcase with NO clean clothes left, unless you were lucky enough to wash some somewhere along the way. I achieved washing some in Vienna. I had the room to myself, and used the bathroom.
I got to see several amazing cities, many for the first time: Lucerne, Nice, Florence, Rome, Venice, Vienna, Prague, Amsterdam. I had been to Paris and Munich before, but in Munich I can now say that I've been to the Hofbrauhaus, and in Paris I can say that I've been to the Moulin Rouge. When travelling in Rome it is an absolute must to see the Vatican City (definitely a must!!) as well as the Colosseum and the Roman ruins. We unfortunately had rain the day we were in Rome, but that just added more fun to the adventure. I also got to see the Mouth of Truth, made famous in the movie 'Roman Holiday' with Audrey Hepburn (who won best actress Oscar for the role) and Gregory Peck. Both very fine actors.
To me, Venice and Amsterdam are very similar in one respect: there are canals everywhere. However, where Venice is sinking quickly into the mud, Amsterdam just has buildings that are tilting due to foundations. I'm not quite sure which is worse! Both cities, though, are extraordinary in their creation, and will be a highlight of my trip memories every time I think back on it. I also got to wander around both of them on my own, trying to make sure I didn't get lost in Venice (which is apparently very easy to do, but I didn't achieve it - YES!), and finding my way to the Rijks Museum to view the Dutch Masters. Venice is charming due to all the lovely canalways and gondolas, and walkways and bridges. However, be prepared for some smell if you go on a gondola. Yes, the waterways do smell. Only in certain back ones, though. Amsterdam is beautiful as well, and very easy to walk around due to all it's flatness.
Anyway, I have other things I must attend to. Write something new hopefully another time during the year.
Oh, and the title of the blog refers to my birthday on Tuesday. Not having a party of friends coming around - have lost touch of Sydney ones. Hopefully, though, it'll be a lot of fun anyway.
I have been overseas, and it was a fair amount of fun. Got to see lots of different things, and meet a lot of new people, and not understand a word of what some people were saying! The joys of travelling in Europe: a new language nearly every single day! Overall, I enjoyed it immensely and would recommend anyone doing it.
I went through Contiki for my trip, and chose one that went for 3 weeks. Trust me, that amount of time is enough for anyone travelling. You are pretty much on each other's nerves by the end of it, and are sick of living out of a suitcase with NO clean clothes left, unless you were lucky enough to wash some somewhere along the way. I achieved washing some in Vienna. I had the room to myself, and used the bathroom.
I got to see several amazing cities, many for the first time: Lucerne, Nice, Florence, Rome, Venice, Vienna, Prague, Amsterdam. I had been to Paris and Munich before, but in Munich I can now say that I've been to the Hofbrauhaus, and in Paris I can say that I've been to the Moulin Rouge. When travelling in Rome it is an absolute must to see the Vatican City (definitely a must!!) as well as the Colosseum and the Roman ruins. We unfortunately had rain the day we were in Rome, but that just added more fun to the adventure. I also got to see the Mouth of Truth, made famous in the movie 'Roman Holiday' with Audrey Hepburn (who won best actress Oscar for the role) and Gregory Peck. Both very fine actors.
To me, Venice and Amsterdam are very similar in one respect: there are canals everywhere. However, where Venice is sinking quickly into the mud, Amsterdam just has buildings that are tilting due to foundations. I'm not quite sure which is worse! Both cities, though, are extraordinary in their creation, and will be a highlight of my trip memories every time I think back on it. I also got to wander around both of them on my own, trying to make sure I didn't get lost in Venice (which is apparently very easy to do, but I didn't achieve it - YES!), and finding my way to the Rijks Museum to view the Dutch Masters. Venice is charming due to all the lovely canalways and gondolas, and walkways and bridges. However, be prepared for some smell if you go on a gondola. Yes, the waterways do smell. Only in certain back ones, though. Amsterdam is beautiful as well, and very easy to walk around due to all it's flatness.
Anyway, I have other things I must attend to. Write something new hopefully another time during the year.
Oh, and the title of the blog refers to my birthday on Tuesday. Not having a party of friends coming around - have lost touch of Sydney ones. Hopefully, though, it'll be a lot of fun anyway.
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