The scene today at the Memphis is indeed colourful, but today as a summer extra Boxing Day holiday, it seems to be especially so. The place is buzzing as always, and of course Johnny made up for yesterday's disastrous Muffin by offering me free everything today. I had to tell him of the stomach poisoning just in case it could ever eventuate again. He accepted it must have been a rare one, but still vigilance is paramount in cafés.
This young English actress Carey Mulligan, 
whom I discovered in her first big role in 'An Education' where she showed just how good she is, shines again in this historically accurate account of the Suffrage movement in London in the early 1900s. Led by the great and famed feminist-activist Emmeline Pankhurst, portrayed in a small cameo by Meryl Streep, (who btw should have played Hedda Hopper in 'Trumbo' where she would have been perfect as the arch-bitch journalist), this moment in world history needed to be documented in film and the original footage at the end of the movie shows just how close to facts the film was.
whom I discovered in her first big role in 'An Education' where she showed just how good she is, shines again in this historically accurate account of the Suffrage movement in London in the early 1900s. Led by the great and famed feminist-activist Emmeline Pankhurst, portrayed in a small cameo by Meryl Streep, (who btw should have played Hedda Hopper in 'Trumbo' where she would have been perfect as the arch-bitch journalist), this moment in world history needed to be documented in film and the original footage at the end of the movie shows just how close to facts the film was. Women have always been stronger than men, the backbone of the family, but never have they been shown to be as resilient as thay had to be in times of such inequality. The UK gave suffrage only in the 1920s, whereas NZ and Australia led the world in the 1890s granting women the vote before any other country, something which we are constantly reminded of in this very liberated country I have chosen to live in.
The Memphis Belle is a small capsule of this liberal society and I enjoy so much the vision and interaction between the staff and clients here where the concept of the Maori Whanau - family - is always in evidence.
Carey, being Carey...
Memphis clients...
And more...
Stone Soup, a local free alternative food newspaper
which is certainly worth the read, gives good lowdown on affordable food and how to make it. NZ is after all, home to some of the best produced fruit and veggies in the world, and it's a good idea to know how cook and prepare them to the best of one's ability. There are some secrets divulged in this paper which one would never have known.
which is certainly worth the read, gives good lowdown on affordable food and how to make it. NZ is after all, home to some of the best produced fruit and veggies in the world, and it's a good idea to know how cook and prepare them to the best of one's ability. There are some secrets divulged in this paper which one would never have known.More lookers-in...
One of Johnny's books
which are strewn around the café for clients to read. I looked at this and decided it is one I really should have, so next step is to seek it out at the local bookshop. Then home to prepare some food for the trip to Norsewood tomorrow and perhaps even have a swim in the ocean, the weather is so warm and beautiful. The rest of Wellie is enjoying it so why not me?
which are strewn around the café for clients to read. I looked at this and decided it is one I really should have, so next step is to seek it out at the local bookshop. Then home to prepare some food for the trip to Norsewood tomorrow and perhaps even have a swim in the ocean, the weather is so warm and beautiful. The rest of Wellie is enjoying it so why not me?
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