Silverburn

Yesterday we had a few errands to run in the West End and then we were going to go to the cinema in Silverburn Shopping Centre. The West End bit went well and we went for a rather lovely springtime walk around Kelvingrove Park. But things took a downturn when we got to Silverburn, once memorably described by Andrew B in his childhood as “the most boring place on earth.” We had to pop into three or four shops and James, who thinks nothing of climbing five mountains in a day, quickly became despairing and exhausted. He’s actually a very lucky man that this is a rare occasion for him, because I’m not a keen shopper myself and usually go shopping by myself for speed and efficiency. By the time we got to the cinema he collapsed into a chair while I was buying our coffees in Costa, muttering about the horrifying slow pace of walking in a shopping centre. 

The film cheered him up. We had booked “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” which is a bizarre but fairly funny film starting Nicholas Cage as Nicholas Cage. He is offered a million dollars to attend a super-fan’s birthday party in Mallorca, and of course when he gets there all sorts of complications ensue. It’s no classic but it had us and the rest of the audience laughing out loud. I enjoy making connections between celebrities and I noticed that Cage’s daughter is played by Lily Sheen, daughter of Michael Sheen and Kate Beckinsale, and granddaughter of Richard Beckinsale who died so young and so long ago. We then went back downstairs for a quick meal in Zizzi’s where the service was good but the garlic bread was disappointing.