{"id":5403,"date":"2011-08-21T21:47:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T20:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=5403"},"modified":"2011-08-21T22:03:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T21:03:54","slug":"visit-prep-cinema-horses-and-other-randomnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=5403","title":{"rendered":"Visit prep, cinema, horses and other randomnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next Saturday, Daughter (ooh, three consecutively capitalised words, there’s a name for that but I can’t think what it is right now) will be arriving from Granada.<\/p>\n

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Daughter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She’s never been here, to Oxfordshire.<\/p>\n

All of the getting-together we’ve done has involved me nipping over there for a weekend (or longer).<\/p>\n

In fact, this will be just her second visit back to the UK since we shook the Mendip clay from our wellies, and headed 1,000-miles southwards (yet to an altitude significantly higher than the Mendips), to a village just below the snowline in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and the far too-hot summers and distressingly severe winters.<\/p>\n

I’m picking her up from East Midlands airport on Saturday.<\/p>\n

On Sunday she and I are going to Reading Music Festival, because she wants to see Panic At The Disco. And besides, Muse are headlining.<\/p>\n

The following day (Bank Holiday Monday), I’m going to Highclere Castle where I’m going to have a go at filming a ‘fly-on-the-wall’ documentary.<\/p>\n

I’m not too sure what we’ll do for the rest of the week; Tuesday we will probably have a breather and bum around the house.<\/p>\n

I’d like to get her out to a gig; see one of the brilliant local bands, so she can experience the joy of music from the front-line of awesomeness.<\/p>\n

The weather, obv, will play a part in the decision-making.<\/p>\n

Maybe a trip to the flicks?<\/p>\n

Anyway, speaking of the cinema.<\/p>\n

This weekend we’ve seen ‘Cowboys and Aliens’ and ‘Inbetweeners Movie’.<\/p>\n

The surprising thing was the number of people in both showings.<\/p>\n

The screen for Cowboys and Aliens was about 2\/3rds empty, but the screen for Inbetweeners was not only packed, the showing we attended – and the following show – had people\u00a0queuing\u00a0out of the cinema lobby.<\/p>\n

It’s an unscientific survey, but based on the evidence of my eyes at the local cinema this weekend, the big-budget $163 million film was getting its backside totally creamed by an independent product that cost a minute fraction.<\/p>\n

The other piece of news is that I finally got around to trotting Vin up this morning.<\/p>\n

He passed.<\/p>\n

The next stage is a visit from the back specialist to, hopefully, give us a thumbs-up and a clean bill of health.<\/p>\n

Vin’s had two years off, recovering from this self-inflicted muscle injury, he looks really good on it – having two years off, I mean.<\/p>\n

Ah well, wait and see what the back person says.<\/p>\n

And that’s me, in a nutshell.<\/p>\n

What about you?<\/p>\n

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