1917

Home again home again jiggety jig as my Mum used to say. On Thursday my French class started again for the new term, this time in the St Andrews Building, in a very smart classroom. It was good to be back studying with my pleasant fellow-Francophiles. The building also has lots of good memories for me of Literacy training courses of yesteryear, with lovely classmates like Fiona and of course our favourite tutor, the amazing Ernie.
Today I met Jackie at her sports centre again and after coffee and a catch up we went to a class that was a mixture of yoga, pilates and stretching. Oh boy did we stretch! I must be about two inches taller after all that. The coach was rather strict and kept reminding us to pay attention or we wouldn’t benefit from the class! And then later James and I went to see the film 1917, directed by Sam Mendes and with an incredibly starry (and no doubt extremely expensive) cast, even though most of them - such as Andrew Scott, Colin Firth and Benedict Cumberbatch - only had about three lines each. The film was excellent, shot as if in two long continuous takes. The two young men on their epic mission were played flawlessly by George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman (Tommen from Game of Thrones is all grown up!) It is a very fine film. Just as it finished, James looked at his watch and guess what time it was? Yes you’ve guessed it - 19.17.