Continued freeze

The freeze continues but as a (nearly) true Wellingtonian, I am out and about early to enjoy the chill, and it is chilly! But we rug up and enjoy the cold, like these kids in the snow.

Heavy snowfalls

The danger of tweets (twits!)...it is clear the internet can be a powerful but also dangerous place for the rash and uninitiated. Youngsters who think they know everything use it as a platform sometimes for their ignorance, like this young lady.

150th Anniversary I'll miss.. this light show in July.

Greek tragedy unfolding....

The Pope trying his best to help....

Innovative ecologically sound Kiwis...

What a young Kiwi can do on the farm

This was an excellent movie....the story of a bored wife living in the French provinces is a classic Flaubert story, and his most famous. I caught this movie  this morning at Cuba Lighthouse Cinema, with the luminous Australian Mia Wasikowski giving an excellent interpretation of the young country bride, bright, but wanting to escape the less than exciting village life in France in the 1800s. 

Mme Bovary finally ruins her doctor husband, creating so much debt and all while having disastrous love affairs with two very sexy suitors. She then tragically takes her life. It is a sort of Greek tragedy, but written with a great French flair and brilliantly directed by Sophie Barthes, a woman director and one of the best France has today, and she filmed this French classic in English which worked to a T. A very good movie worth four stars at least.

Tonight a return to swimming with new coach Kiwi Olympian Gareth was a delight. I feel great after an hour in the pool at Kilbirnie.