Well, blow me down! Just seen that it's over two months since our last posting (employing the royal 'we'), and this simply will not do! So here's our ploy for times coming.With some regret (just a little bit) it would appear that my days of frequent cinema-going are now part of the past. I haven't been at all since last March, and even when it becomes possible again I should think that for me the practice wouldn't be more than a well-spaced rarity. However, on those occasions when it does happen I will still post my thoughts on any film in question as before.
Thus, in order to keep this blog alive so long as I am so myself, I will attempt to post now and again on a miscellany of subjects, hopefully not too weighty but in concise and pithy manner, so you may know there's still life in this old boy yet!
Next post is coming soon(ish). See ya there?
I will miss your movie reviews. Any chance you can home view movies and review those? I have been convinced to watch many classics and movies from days past based on reviews by other bloggers.
ReplyDeleteI watch films on TV only very seldom, S/b., and when I do it's nearly always to watch again a film I've seen before which I thought was good enough to want to sit through again. Hardly any new films do I watch at all. I think it's because I'm a great believer in watching films in the medium for which they were intended to be seen, though I grant it's less true nowadays with more made-for-TV-transmission than ever before. I suppose it just reflects my clinging to olde worlde ways.
DeleteI get it and totally understand. I hope you feel inspired to write about other things. You’re part of our Bloggers community and your voice would be missed.
DeleteI'll certainly attempt a now-and-then posting, S/b, though I don't seem to have the facility as some do, including yourself, to talk about random subjects which are likely to hold a reader's attention. But I DO appreciate your comment, especially as there are now so few people in the world who will listen to my voice anyway, most of them having....passed on, leaving me as the sole survivor of their 'circles', something which will eventually happen to a great many of those around today.
Deleteit may be another year before you can visit the cinema safely again.
ReplyDeleteI would love to see pix of the town where you live. and pix of the pussies, of course.
Not missing the cinema at all, W.Q., which surprises me a bit. I think there's a relief in not having the apprehension of being aware that a film I'm about to see may have a distressing [to me] scene or two in it, particularly if it features a suffering animal. But go again I shall, though even once a month would now seem to be pushing it a bit. And as you say, it may be some time before it all gets back to 'normal' anyway.
DeleteI really need a new camera to take new photos. This one I have is long out-moded now and with it it's such a hassle to get them loaded onto this laptop. I only wish I knew someone on hand to advise me what to get and show me how to manage the ins and outs.
There are plenty of pics of this town on the internet - just google 'Worthing, West Sussex' - and, goodness me, it all looks so CLEAN!
As for pics of the four pussies, yes, I can appreciate that you'd like to see them, and that is indeed a strong enough reason to find some way to show them off - especially while there are still FOUR of them.
will do, dear!
DeleteYou will definitely see me "there." I love your miscellany.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mitch. I'll try not to disappoint.
DeleteGood to see you back. I am happy to read whatever you wish to write.
ReplyDeleteTa, Carol. Any future postings of mine will tend to be meanderings, with one major difference to those of other bloggers, viz. as I don't know anybody at all in this locality, nor a single passing acquaintance, my blogs will be devoid of that 'other-person' dimension when it comes to things to talk about. But we'll see how it goes.
DeleteYes, I think we're all rearranging our "norm". Although I only went 5 or 6 times a year, I miss going to the theater. I think for must of us, our lives have gotten fairly narrow. So please share whatever with us-- I think we all need that little bit of contact, if you get what I mean. It helps to know other people are going through the same thing. Glad you're "back".
ReplyDeleteWell, frankly Sadie, apart from a weekly phone conversation with my sister, now 81 and living 300 miles away, I've got no one else other then my blogpals to talk to. So I'll drop a line occasionally on various subjects, though I doubt if they can be as interesting or as entertaining as some of the blogs I follow.
DeleteThanks for your 'welcome' though.
I guess most of us don't have cameras anymore and just take pictures from our phone, and then blog on the phone. Its easy to do and means you only have to carry your phone with you.
ReplyDeleteOur movie theaters are open here, but not many shows to go to. I did see The Booksellers and 23 Walks at the weekend.
Julie
Yes, I'm surely letting the world leave me behind, Julie. I wish it wasn't so but, being clueless on up-to-date technology, I don't know which way to turn for help, asking myself will it be worthwhile anyway, knowing that the time I have left will possibly be more limited than for others around my age. But haven't quite given up all hope just yet.
DeleteOnly one of the two-screen cinemas in this town has re-opened - though with audience-distancing, of course.
The only film I'm awaiting keenly is 'Tenet' as I'm a great fan of [most of] Christopher Nolan's films, though I'd like to have seen it on an Imax screen, which is going to be unlikely without my taking the risk of not being able to watch over the cats for maybe five or six hours, which I may regret on my return.
I've also stopped reading or listening to film reviews, something which surprises even me as I hadn't intended it - so I'm sorry to say that regarding the two films you mention as having watched, their titles mean nothing to me. Looks increasingly likely that watching new films might well now be consigned to as being part of my past - not entirely, but largely.
Sorry to tell you this as you seem to have been interested to know what I've seen, though if and when I do catch any new release I'll definitely post about it.