Today’s eye-rolling from me, headline criticising a film about Golda Meir, as Helen Mirren was cast as the lead despite not being Jewish. This comes soon after complaints about heterosexual actors playing homosexual or trans characters. Could this trend mean the end of films with characters who are murderers, rapists etc? Or will there be crowds of casting agents waiting outside prisons and probation offices to recruit for forthcoming films? And woe betide anyone hoping to play a superhero? I thought the whole premise of acting was to convincingly pretend to be someone or something you are not? Or have I been wrong all these years?
Our record for stuck vans on our drive was 8 in the last year before we stopped them with the mighty Traffic Cone of Doom! It took 6 hours and 6 men to extract the final one and the quickest extraction took 2 hours. So much for "professional" drivers.
Today was the day for descaling the kettle and changing the filter in the water filter. I use distilled vinegar to clean both vessels. The kettle was coming along nicely and I was able to get the brush into the nooks and crannies when - crack! I smashed the glass on the kettle from the inside. Now having to drink tea with water boiled in a pan until we can get to the shop tomorrow for a new kettle. Humph.
We've had to call out our farmer neighbour with his tractor on a few occasions to pull some muppet out of a ditch or hedge in our lane. It's most often because they are very reluctant to reverse and will try to turn when there very obviously isn't room to do so, and end up getting stuck sideways. Not helped by the really poor traction the long wheelbase transits seem to have - they slide all over the place. The SM delivery vans are the worst - we don't get our shopping delivered because the SM vans simply can't turn round, even though much bigger trucks with better tyres (Jewson deliveries) can manage it without a problem, and those things must be horrible to reverse any distance.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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I did apologise to the pig, though. It gave it's life for my degustation. What a waste.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Could this trend mean the end of films with characters who are murderers, rapists etc?
Or will there be crowds of casting agents waiting outside prisons and probation offices to recruit for forthcoming films? And woe betide anyone hoping to play a superhero?
I thought the whole premise of acting was to convincingly pretend to be someone or something you are not? Or have I been wrong all these years?
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”