12 Wednesday Mar 2008
Posted in animals & pets, health & happiness, life stuff
The cat owners had a 30 per cent reduction in heart attack risk than participants who didn’t own cats, said the study’s lead author
Yeah I know, seem to be on a roll with the cat stuff lately … but isn’t this excellent news for all of us who have cats that allow us to live with them! So, does the fact that I live with two cats lower my heart attack risk by 60 per cent? Or do I also have to take Nog into consideration? 😉
03 Monday Mar 2008
Posted in art, humour, life stuff
A week ago today the UK was hit by an earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale. This latest report shows the irreparable damage done at the Lincolnshire Etch-A-Sketch Museum and comes as a blow to art lovers everywhere.
~ via Frostfirezoo , via my pal Taliesin ~
01 Saturday Mar 2008
Posted in gadgets, life stuff, music, retail therapy
26 Tuesday Feb 2008
Posted in health & happiness, life stuff, musings, sevilla
And it’s much earlier than last year. I was walking home from a class yesterday afternoon and when I turned a corner I was suddenly snapped out of my reverie; I closed my eyes, raised my face to the sky and inhaled deeply. Then I looked around and saw them – the first orange blossoms of the year.
It always takes me by surprise and always fills me with joy.
25 Monday Feb 2008
Posted in culture, films, health & happiness, life stuff, rants
. . . that I first saw this film.
A very charming ‘coming of age’ film about three teenaged girls (played by Julia Roberts, Annabeth Gish & Lili Taylor) in the small town of Mystic, Connecticut. And I had vague memories of really loving this film a lot.
Got to watch it again yesterday as it was being shown on tv on Sunday afternoon . . . and I loved it all over again.
But something really niggled. which I know is one of my pet niggles . . . and that is about how women portrayed in films twenty years ago actually got away with having real women’s bodies. I mean, okay, Mystic Pizza was a small indie low-budget film and not a big-time Hollywood film, otherwise this may not have been the case. But man, there was ole Julia (I think it was her first film role) showing a lot of big sexy butt and voluptuous curves, and Annabeth and Lily also looked like … well, like normal women do when wearing trousers. Like, no three inch gap between their thighs. And all scenes showing any of them in a sleeveless top or dress also showed quite attractive and normal looking upper arms, not pencil-thin sticks protruding out of bony shoulders… it was really refreshing to see this for a change.
Well, refreshing and also sad to think of how things are now. Ah well…
An excellent film – does anyone else remember it?
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