I'm not going to lie, there was a lot of this that went over my head. Far too much pontificating about things and quoting literature that I don't know. That's kind of what you get with plays, of course. That aside, the film was great and I liked it's subtle, understated nature. Sometimes it's nice to have watch something calm and intellectual (even if you don't get all of it).

After a rather long week, Mr C and I decided to retire from our desks early last night and take to our respective books for reading. It was fun. Mr C is currently enjoying Joe Saward's latest book - The Man Who Caught Crippen. At the moment, it is only available in paperback, and it's the first physical book we've ordered from Amazon in a long time (and it may …

This definitely was a crazy idea. But still, sponsor me, won't you? Lots of very kind and lovely people have sponsored me already, and I am very grateful. Although that does mean the pressure is on. The numbers are moving in the right direction, but it is still quite rubbish. T minus 30 days Total distance - 5.02km Total moving time - 45:49 Average moving speed - 6.57km/h Really terrible …

For Giggles and Joe and anyone else who is having a bad day. Credit: { just jennifer } / Flickr

The last few attempts at running have been a little difficult, and I must admit to have been getting a bit dispirited by this whole 5k thing. That race that seemed so very far away is now looming closer and closer, and I am still being overtaken by people taking their dogs for a walk. Last night, I had a dream about the race and it was a bit of …

I was browsing around the interwebs, as you do, and came across the company Cavallini & Co, who make some good-looking stationery, with a vintage twist. I found two particular favourites: These rather good Sticky Notes come in a fancy tin and cover every eventuality. From a simple to-do list, to a reminder, and even a day by day note. They look quite small, but I love the variety. Sadly, …

Once again, I wasn't expecting much and was completely surprised by what I saw. Yes, it was the standard rom-com, and yes they did start out hating each other and ended up loving each other but I was very impressed by the ratio of comedy to romance. I couldn't stop laughing for ten minutes at a time. Loved it.

It's not the best, I'll admit, but it certainly wasn't as bad as I remembered. Wallace and Gromit can make anything amusing, and I do love the cute little rabbits. I just wish Wallace wouldn't fall in love so easily, he could quite happily fix people's problems without being in love with the woman with carrot hair.

I wasn't sure to start with, how interesting a film could be about two mis-matched robbers failing to rob a bank. But it was really very good. The partnership between Bruce and Billy-Bob developed really well, and whilst I wasn't that keen on the relationship with the woman, she did bring Bonnie Tyler into the film, so I am happy with that.

All I can say is this is my favourite header that I've ever done, I think. Made with: Pixelmator Font: Rockwell Filters: Just a bit of motion blur on the text

The minute this episode started, we got to see more fearless attitude from Rose. As the Doctor was busy trying to impress her, and take her futher and further forward into time, she was happy to say: "Fine by me, let's go further," without actually seeing any of the things they were passing. She trusted that he was doing what he said, and she was happy to wait for the …

LEG! Credit: San Diego Shooter/Flickr So fluffy.

Last month, I blogged about a new show starting on Revision3 - Dan 3.0. It seemed like a great idea, Dan was already an established video blogger with a good fanbase, and he was intending to turn his life over to the viewers. You'd get to suggest and vote on things for Dan to do with his life - and the project was set to last a whole year. It …

So, this is how the BBC brought back Doctor Who - to a skeptical viewing public. At the time, it was ever-so-slightly ruined by a certain Graham Norton, but now, watching it back having purchased the series on iTunes, it's as it should be. It's fun watching things with the benefit of hindsight, but I tried to go into this with an open mind. The first thing I noticed was …

I have a question. I've been thinking I should really graduate from running about in tatty t-shirts, as it worked wonders on my feet when I treated them to some proper equipment. So... when did sports wear become quite so complicated? I haven't been in an actual shop yet (that's a whole other bridge to try and cross), but browsing about online, I found this very pretty vest. I don't …

Excellent film. It starts off very in-your-face and loud and a little off-putting, but if you stick with it, and get to know the characters (there are quite a lot of them), it certainly rewards you. Drew Barrymore does make a lot of difference, as well, providing some light relief when it could be all about bruises and pain. Their attitude towards being second best really is inspiring. We're number 2, we're number 2!

It's a bit long, for a start, but the story is just about good enough to hold it for that long. The songs are good, as expected, but I really wasn't a fan of all the coloured filters and things. I don't need a purple sky to be convinced that Bali Hai is a special place to visit, and I certainly don't need a yellow screen to believe these two are in love. Why yellow?

LibriVox is an organisation with a simple goal - to make all public domain works accessible in audiobook form. I've been involved for a long while now, part of an enormous group of volunteers who record chapters, poems and entire books to attempt to reach this goal. To take a break from the Grace Harlowe world, I picked a travel book called - British Highways and Byways from a Motor …

I've been going through a bit of an obsession with the stripe effect, and this is another one that began with that. A couple of brushes, and for the first time I played around with the edges to make it not quite as rectangular and full of straight lines. Made with: Pixelmator Brushes: Floral Decor Art Brushes Font: Party LET Filter: Stylize / Edge Work

Ignore everything I said in the previous post about Superleague in Italy. Franck is not racing there this weekend. Supposedly the team withdrew because of financial difficulties. Probably a mixture of that and a rather annoyed FKM after the last race they did manage to attend. What a mess.

I really enjoyed the film, and it raises some excellent and interesting questions - searching for aliens, what to do when you've found them, whether to build what they send you, etc. etc. However, the bit where she actually goes through wormholes and ends up on a clearly weird and fake beach ruined it. They could have skipped that whole bit, had a much shorter film, and I still would have believed it thanks to the 18 hours of static. Still, Matthew took his top off, so this will get no less than four marks out of five.

It's an interesting concept, but I'm not 100% sure the story held up throughout. I would be more intrigued to find out how the world continued with everyone blind - how did they survive, how did they go about bringing up the non-blind youngsters? How did the people get off the lighthouse island to send word about the sea water? Anyway, good but not great.

They have recommissioned Sherlock! Fabulous news, although I don't think anyone expected any different. The intriguing part of the announcement is that it is to be another batch of three episodes, and they will each continue the format of a 90 minute sitting. After the second episode of series 1, I felt that 90 minutes was drawing things out a little, but if it helps them to tell the story, …

This post is specifically for Amy, because she asked for more stationery. Reluctantly, eh-hem, I am obliging. It is such a wrench to scour the web for this stuff, you know? Monopoly Game Board Planner I hate the idea of someone throwing away Monopoly, because... why would you? But if you're going to get rid of your board games, it makes sense for them to be turned into something useful, …

I really don't know anything about poker, but I was keen to read this after realising just how fabulous Ms Coren is. Although it is all about the game, it's not hard to read. Even when going into details about particular hands, you only have to have a basic grasp of deal, raise, and fold, which is the extent of my knowledge. It's a tale of how one person can do what they love and do it well, and a chronicle of how poker has grown and changed but still retains its essence. The most important lines in the book circle around: It's not about the money.

What a great way to start the month - a surprise wedding! (Actually, it wasn't that much of a surprise to me as I read this fabulous post first - oops!) Not such a great surprise for Jennifer, though. I have honestly never heard anyone quite so snobby. Of course, she inhabits a world where a barbecue takes two very stressful weeks to organise and involves marquees and hiding the …

It was a warm, sunny afternoon in August, and Mr C and I found ourselves sitting in a large back garden with a cup of tea. This is unusually civilised of us. We surveyed the extra-long grass, and discussed what size plot you would need to fit an underground bunker. Quite big, is the answer. We discussed the pros and cons of more than one storey, and the concept of …

So that's it, I have finally completed the trilogy and thank goodness. What a let down this book was. After a fantastic, if slightly drawn out, story in the first book, we had the rather hard-to-believe but still intriguing set-up of the second. This final book had to tie together all the loose ends, but my god, it made hard work of it. The heroine spends more than half the novel in hospital, which is a bit disappointing. The main stories revolve around the gazillion different police departments that there are in Sweden, and how they interact with each other. It was all about the politics and new characters kept on being introduced for no apparent reason.

Winnie-the-Pooh emerged as a free book on the Kindle, just as the iBook store came with the book as an example of what it could do. I like free stuff, so I downloaded it, but I had forgotten how much I like Pooh and Piglet. The writing is a lot more abstract than I remember. I know it's aimed at kids, but it rambles around and wanders through sentences of nothing-ness and it's absolutely wonderful. The short little stories could be told in about a page, but not with Pooh Bear around.

So, when you pick up a romance novel, you know exactly what you're getting and they are _not my kind of book_. It being set in the beautiful motorsport paddocks made no difference to this whatsoever. Romance novels are silly, this we know. They are nothing like real life, people don't ever talk to each other like that, and things like this don't happen to regular people. Even so, to bring motorsport into the mix is interesting to me, so I read it. Oh dear.

Franck has seemingly disappeared off the face of the planet, and so it is left to other drivers to preview the upcoming Superleague Race. I'm assuming FKM is still driving in the series, although last we heard he was a little bit peeved at the entire thing - his team included. This weekend the gang head to Italy, the Adria International Raceway for Round 8 of the 2010 Superleague Formula …

A while back, I pondered the state of things in Dorset, where they drink beer from the Piddle Brewery. Fast forward a few months, and my Dad presents me with three bottles as a house-warming present. Here we have: Piddle in a bottle Jimmy Riddle in a bottle Little Willie Naturally, the next step was a taste test. Piddle in a Bottle - At first I thought it just tasted …

Ahh, that makes a nice and classy change from that last header, doesn't it? I was mostly inspired by the image used to promote the brushes for this one. Something nice, bold simple and blue. It pretty much fits the bill. Although it has just occurred to me that the bit in the middle looks like a moustache. Made with: Pixelmator Brushes: Baroque Ornaments Font: Copperplate Gothic Bold

I figured I had gone on about running a bit too much for a little while, so I saved two weeks of the programme to go up at once. Here goes nothing: Week 7 Day 1 I don't want to say anything that is going to jinx the next few weeks of running, but this was relatively easy. I wonder if having a goal - a race to actually train …

Ohhhh, I love it so much more now that I understand it. I mean, I'm no rocket scientist, but it makes so much more sense. Since we watched this film, I have become completely obsessed with all things Apollo and Shuttle and NASA, and did you know that in real life it wasn't 39 seconds, it was actually 14? I still hate NASA for it, but cooool. I can't stop reading Wikipedia about astronauts and space, and hey, what do astronauts do when they're not up there? Do they just sit and wait? Anyway, fantastic film. Fabulous ending.

Aside from the extended baseball sequences, where I had little clue what was going on, this was a nice little tale. It did fall right into that injured and past it coach does awe-inspiring things category, but this comes from a true story which makes it just that bit more interesting. The casting is great, with some fabulous performances, so I was happy I watched it.

It had all the key moments, and was a pretty good-looking film, which is all you can really ask for. Sebastian certainly made it what it was for me. I couldn't quite get my head around the girl playing Heidi and her accent, plus I was hoping for a bit more grump and then a genuine turnaround from Grandfather. Still, it was good.

This was actually surprisingly good. It took a while to get going, setting up all the people, their relationships with each other and how they would come into contact once the deed was done - which wasn't until halfway through the film. But once it picked up, it was pretty good, and I wasn't expecting the twist at the end, which was a bonus. Gooo Costner!

I know, I know, it's not called 'Baby Panda and Man Thursday' but I love how the panda is just oblivious, happily chewing on what I assume is bamboo but looks suspiciously like a cigar. Credit: Shinya ICHINOHE/Flickr

The Ironbridge Gorge Museums are actually a collection of ten separate attractions spread out over a small area in Telford. There are all kinds of things there, including tile and china museums, pipeworks and a tar tunnel. I didn't really fancy visiting all ten of these. In fact, there were only two bits that I was really interested in - the Ironbridge itself, and Blists Hill Victorian Town. The bridge …

I did like that although it was so obvious they were going to get together, it didn't do the usual chick flick thing of trying so hard to pretend that they won't. They didn't hate each other from the start, she wasn't completely oblivious to his feelings, she just had to work out how she felt. And get a job and sort out her family at the same time. It was exactly as expected, and did the trick perfectly, with a few laughs along the way.

Not a good film at all. That initial music should have been a clear indicator - overkill for what was essentially a journey to a building. The beginning was okay, and the ending was interesting, but the bit in the middle made very little sense. There's no way this film needed to be over two hours long. It really needed to get to the end a lot faster because the twist was almost worth watching.

I completed the next letter of the A-Z Adventure yesterday, and it was great fun! I will blog it soon. Before I left in the morning, though, I had a bit of a panic. I have lots of plans and not enough time and why did I ever think this was a good idea in the first place? After a bit of thought and contemplation, I came to some conclusions. …

I started with the brushes and was working purple on white. It was an interesting start, but it wasn't quite what I was after. Then I put the spirals in place and applied one of the blending options (I forget which) and this amazing thing happened. I'm pretty sure it's channelling E4, although entirely unintentional. Made with: Pixelmator Brushes: Circle and Brush Font: Arial Rounded MT Bold

After a long week at work, this is the kind of thing I like to come home to. I have the best husband in the world. Even if he does wrinkle his nose and say: "It's just a box of breakfast." Oh, it is so much more than that, my friend. Just ask the leprechaun.

My mum said: "Try it. It looks like it will be sour but that's just because it is green. It's basically just like a plum." That is exactly what it was. Just a small green plum. Even if it does have a name like... greenhouse? rain gauge? Greengrass?

Maybe you have already heard of Mighty Girl, maybe you haven't. I've been following her blog for a long time, and occasionally glanced at the Mighty Goods shopping site (which she's now sold, but it's still pretty cool). I never bought anything, but it's like the ultimate window shopping for the internet. Anyway, this is not about shopping. A while back, Mighty Girl, otherwise known as Maggie, created a Life …

Mr C and I have often discussed our desire to have less stuff. We move house on a frequent basis and the more stuff you have, the more tired your arms get by the end of each moving day. The Amazon Kindle apps were a big turning point, I think. A big marker in the sky saying that it really is possible to own less junk. You also have to …

Hey, look what I made! You've all been incredibly generous so far - so much so I've had to up my target total. I was not expecting that. I notice everyone has donated the same amount, so I hope no one is put off if that isn't the amount they want to give. I'm happy with 20p, too. I realised that I wasn't that sure how far I was actually …

This one may not be as spick and span as some of the others I've come up with, but the point about this header is that I made it up and created it all from scratch. The wavy background was done by hand, which is why it's slightly bumpy, although I secretly think that adds to the charm. Plus I was trying to use some nice bright colours to make …