Revolutionary Rants

Today at lunch I paused for - you guessed it - pesto and a bit of a surf (and, of course, Channel 4 lunchtime news). I was trying to find a last item or two for Chris’ Christmas present pile (alliteration all the way…) and had wanted to get him the Audrey Tautou film Le Battement d’ailes du papillon (as it is titled Amelie 2 in South Korea - despite coming out in 2000, before the ‘original’!!! - I thought it would be right up his street).

I searched, and searched, and searched, and searched, and searched, and searched, and searched, and searched, and searched. But all to no avail; play, amazon, cd-wow, they all let me down. Only Fnac and French amazon had it - and, of course, only in French (which is alright for Chicken, but he never watches anything on his own, so…)!!! Oh, and American amazon, too…

In the end I got so frustrated I had to tell him all about it!

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Sorry things have been quiet here, that is mainly because I have had little to say! Chicken and I have been preparing for Christmas, including a visit to my brother’s to exchange gifts and spend time with the kids, and I have been finishing off my first term at York.

Now I have two 5,000 word essays to write, one of which is tentatively under way as of today!

Update: I have now (at 19:07), so far, written 1,633 words and have lots more to go! Quite soon I will be stopping to watch Secret Smile on the trashy but nice ITV…

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