Another film night

After a very busy day at Acme Sweatshop (a tribute to my American blog friend who calls her work place that - I have been thinking of you a lot this past week Susan) I set off into Glasgow to join some pupils for another film night at the GFT this evening. It was the last film in their '80s season, and another film that I have never seen; "Planes, Trains and Automobiles." It was the kind of American film that makes me cringe - the kind of film where everything that can possibly go wrong, goes wrong. In this instance a grumpy businessman played by Steve Martin is trying to make his way home to Chicago for Thanksgiving. However he runs into a hapless shower curtain ring salesman played by the late John Candy and they have a series of horrifyingly inevitable misadventures. However either I am becoming more relaxed about the genre in my old age (after all, Mr Bean's Holiday is one of my favourite films) or the undoubted talent of Martin and Candy won me over, because I found myself enjoying it. The ending was rather heartwarming and I was so proud of our pupils during the discussion at the end. 

When I got home Ally and James were watching an interesting documentary by Simon Sebag Montefiore about the history of Spain. He mentioned a Roman prefect of Seville called "Diogenianus" which we found hilarious in a Monty Python kind of way because of the way he pronounced it - we are very childish.