British Summer Time

This weekend we have unusually hot weather from Europe, France recorde it’s highest temperature since records began, hitting just over 45 degrees Celsius. It is probably going to reach over 30 degrees here, I can feel it is starting to get uncomfortable and is only 9:58am.

I’ve got the garden furniture out and intend to be in the garden as much as possible, in shade of course.

The reason for this post though, is that during the summer I think the government (the nation as a whole) should compensate us for the rest of the year. Here is what I propose:

June and July - weekend extension to include Fridays (a 3 day weekend)

August - weekend extension to include Thursdays (a 4 day weekend)

These two simple change would, I believe, improve the health and productivity of the nation. I don’t believe we would lose anything by making these changes. They would give us more time to do stuff, without having to rush around in the hot weather. There would be more time to relax, so we would be less stressed and more motivated when we are at work.

The changes above would be much more useful and meaningful than the hour the clocks change.

Please, someon with any political power - MAKE THIS A CAMPAIGN PROMISE and I guarantee you’ll be elected!

Boogeyman (2005)

I watched this film this week and largely had the feeling it was. Fairly decent premise that was eventually let down by not being scary at all. I don’t think the actors were particularly awful or wooden. The story was just watered down and the psychological aspects of a child with night terrors was just not very scarily conveyed. Yet we all know that night terrors can be horrific for parents and children. I think one of the big problems with the film was that there was no real development o the relationship between the father and son. Yet we are expected to believe that a child who sees his father pulled into a closet at such a young age has affected him for the rest of his life. He seems to trust all the counselling he has had to convince him that it was just his processing of the trauma of his father simply leaving his mother - and not a result of the supernatural. Another issue is that, with a lot of Hesse sort of films, there was no explanation of what it was that was in the closet. It seemed to resemble a toy figure he had on his bedside table but why? Ultimately disappointing but I kept watching hoping for something interesting to happen. It didn’t.

Ginger Snaps (2000)

I watched this Canadian horror with a feeling of growing disappointment. I watched it through to the end though and have to say it felt like a long time had passed. I could have been doing something better than watch this.
It is a sort of a modern day take on the werewolf genre, with two sisters who don’t fit into the typical teen stereotypes. They make horror photographs with decapitated body parts. The sister who isn’t ginger is a lot more introverted than her sister Ginger. Something is mutilating local pets. Ginger gets attacked by it and gets infected. She starts to grow hair and a tail. She attacks a boy who fancies her and he starts to turn too. Her sister and her drug dealing friend find a cure and use it on the infected boy not knowing if the consequences will lead to death or cure or nothing at all. Fortunately, the cure works on him. Ginger eventually fully mutates into an animal and we don’t get to see if she is ever cured. Of course not, as it is the first in a trilogy of films. I am not going to bother with the others.