Boyhood

Ally arrived back from his holiday to Spain, Gibraltar and Tangier on Tuesday. He showed us his photos and regaled us with stories of his adventures; he and Andrew seem to have had a great time. His account of being pursued by hordes of marauding monkeys on the Rock of Gibraltar was absolutely hilarious. So was the tale of his frantic dash back to the hostel in Malaga to find his passport just before his flight home. Not wanting to alarm Andrew as they waited for the airport bus, he said casually that he would pop back to the hostel to get it, then he strolled slowly round the corner before breaking into a headlong run that left him so sweaty that he had to wash his t-shirt in the washrooms at the airport! 

I'm so happy that it's Friday. I spent an hour in my hammock when I got home from school and it was really warm; to my surprise it rained quite heavily in the evening. James was out socialising this evening so I treated myself to a curry and watched a film that I have wanted to see since Jennifer recommended it a couple of years ago, "Boyhood", which was filmed over twelve years with the main character starting as a six year old and ending up driving off to college. It was really excellent and the young actors who played the boy and his sister (Ellar Coltrane and Lorelei Linklater) were very good, as were Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke as their parents. It was quite moving at times as the mother realised how quickly the years had passed.