Weekend of fun and frolics

Another fun weekend with flickums.

Did part 3 of the cultural exchange. Flickums showed me Hercules. I think that was my favourite of the films so far. Less girly, and the animation nerd in me loves the Gerald Scarfe character designs, the absolutely brillant use of colour, and the sassy Gospel singers, and James Woods was brilliant as Hades! I showed her Dark City. This was the Director's Cut. The version where the nature of the city and of the strangers is revealed slowly. It makes it a very different film.

Downed a bottle of Rioja while watching Hercules. That was probably a mistake. It meant I didn't sleep that well. Was very tired the next day. But flickums wanted to know what I was like when drunk and Rioja is very nice.

We went to The National Space Centre. Kinda fun for space nerds. I'm a space nerd, so I had fun. The planetarium show was a nice thing about where all matter in the universe came from (narrated by Andy Serkis). Upstairs they had a show of Le Voyage dans la Lune - The classic George Melias silent movie where they fire the capsule into the moon's eye. Also two genuine full sized rockets (still a little peeved that the British Rocket programme ended. Black Arrow was cool!).

Flickums made chocolate brownies. They're a little squidgy but very tasty. They were made with black cherries in kirsch. I still have the syrup (Perhaps that will be poured onto a future batch of waffles).

Also managed to show some "Look Around You" - which went down well, and Star Fleet - which apparently hasn't aged well.Perhaps it appeals more to those of us who were 5 when it was first on.

Now I need me-time again. This makes me very conflicted because I also want more flickums-time. Silly brain.