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2023 November – In the Upside Down, Ab Fab, Hot Dog, Gastronomic Delight, A Perfect Day for Flying

In the Upside Down

OK, Mum has finally lost the plot completely.  She was doing some of this stuff with the lovely Aiden. Barrell Rolls, Loop the loops, half Cuban Eights and a bit of cloud surfing.  VnE – what’s that??

You wouldn’t catch me doing this ever.

Utter madness.

Mum loved it of course.

Says it all huh?

 

Ab Fab

This is a picture of me looking absolutely fabulous, if I do say so myself.

End of.

And this is a picture of me taking a break from looking absolutely fabulous because it is exhausting

 

Hot Dog

This is a picture of Penny looking super stressed about life…… Offspring #3 is making her life hell as you can see.

 

Gastronomic Delight

This is completely and unexpectedly amazing.  It is milk, cheese and onion, lovingly made by Rob for the swim gals to try.  It is actually really good.  Go Rob and your unorthodox northern menu!

 

A Perfect Day for Flying

Cold, crisp, clear. Yep the best sort of winters day to get up in the skies. Lots of lift and you can see for miles.

Just stunning.

 

 

Saffron’s recommendations this month:

Music:

Yeah – a little Rag N Bone Man. 

  • Human
  • Giant
  • Skin
  • Broken People
  • Anywhere away from here
  • Grace
  • As You Are
  • Bitter End

 

 

Reading:

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr and published by Fourth Estate.

A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II

‘Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.’

For Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home. The microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the Museum of Natural History. The walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the Nazis invade Paris. And a future which draws her ever closer to Werner, a German orphan, destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of the Hitler Youth.

In this magnificent, deeply moving novel, the stories of Marie-Laure and Werner illuminate the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.

 

Film:

Marley & Me is a 2008 American comedy drama based on the 2005 memoir of the same name by John Grogan. The film stars Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston as the owners of Marley, a Labrador retriever. Marley & Me was released in the United States and Canada on December 2008, and set a record for the largest Christmas Day box office ever with $14.75 million in ticket sales.

Because the film covers 14 years in the life of Marley the dog, 22 different yellow Labradors played the part of Marley.

Irresistible to almost everyone – unless you’re a cat.

 

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