It has been a pleasant weekend. We were meeting Linda and Alistair for dinner in Glasgow on Saturday evening so, since it was a rainy afternoon, we decided to go to the cinema first. The only film and venue which tied in perfectly with our dinner time was the latest Terminator film (called Terminator: Dark Fate) at Cineworld. We decided that this suited us well enough, so turned up at the cinema at 4.30 p.m. We watched the first Terminator film in 1984 so that’s thirty-five years ago! We have only seen one other of the six films in the franchise but the plot of the latest one wasn’t hard to follow. In fact apart from a few small changes it seemed to be almost identical to the original film. I couldn’t help noticing that Arnold Schwarzenegger looked pretty old (because he is!) which is a bit surprising since you would think that a robot wouldn’t age. But Davie later explained to us that the getting older thing was explained in one of the other films. How convenient for the aging star. Despite being arrant nonsense, the film was quite watchable because it was full of action; those terminators are extremely difficult to kill. There were lots of in-jokes and references to the previous films, for example Arnie saying sadly at one point, “I won’t be back!” Ho hum.
Today I was at a book club house-warming party at Jenny’s. Her new flat is gorgeous and very spacious. Again it was a rainy day, so how nice it was to sit around chatting with these funny, clever, gorgeous women. When I was walking home later from the station I was reflecting on the afternoon and I felt very happy.
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