Showing posts with label film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label film. Show all posts

10 January 2012

Little things I like

Today school started again after the Christmas break, but my boy is still home, he had some rashes so I keep him home to see what will happen to them. The girls wasn´t that thrilled about going back to school...

One of my favorite flowers around Christmas is hyacinths. I read something from someone who does NOT like them and that person called them ugly and with a terrible smell! Isn´t it funny how different we see things. I had two hyacinths in the livingroom during Christmas, but they are gone now, but I bought two new ones and I have them in my craftroom and they spead this wonderful scent in the whole room and I absolutly love it!





 I´ve bought some films on sale lately and one I really liked is Letters to Juliet. I´ve already seen it a lot of times, that´s how I am with things I love. So this one I very much recommend. One of the others I only saw a bit of before I throw it away...



ER is now stating to be available on DVD too, but I don´t want to pay full price for it so I´ve been waiting and now I found the first season to a reduced price so I bought it and it will give me many hours of enjoyment. Especially since I´ve never seen say about the first half of the series.

17 November 2011

And I cried again





Yesterday was release day for the last Harry Potter movie DVD and I got it in the mail AND of course I had to watch it. And I cried again, just like I did when I saw it at the theater. I cried at some moving scenes but most of all I cried at the end, feeling again how sad it is that this is the end. I so much love the world of Harry Potter. I think I also cries because I`m so happy that the three friends still are friends many years later. That´s so beautyful.


05 November 2011

A long wait








I have now read Austenland by Shannon Hale and all I can say is that it´s gonna be a long wait for the film... I do hope it will go up in the theaters here, otherwise it will be an even longer wait for the DVD. Sigh. Keri Russell and J J Feild are already playing their parts in my head when I read the book.


17 October 2011

The last flowers

Picked this beautyful little sunflowers today. In fall, like in spring, you rejoys in much smaller things than in summer when everyting is in such aboundance. Because of this I think seasons is such a good thing for us humans, they make us much more grateful.


I have a little tip too. This movie is so wonderful! If you haven´t seen it, please do! I tells the tale of Beatrix Potter´s life, the mother of Peter Rabbit. It´s kind of sad, but at the same time hopeful. It´s english, of cause, with such good actors. Great Britain has so MANY extraodinary actors, you never stops to marvel about it.


Have a happy new week.

15 October 2011

Good old friends

Say hello to my good old friends at Coopers Crossing, New South Wales, Australia!


I just love The Flying Doctors! I´ve watched them for decades and they are truely my good old friends. And now, finally, the series have come on DVD so I am slowly collecting them all.

They used to be shown on TV in the afternoon here for years and my youngest daughter would always sigh and say "not again" when she came home from school and found me sitting in front of the TV, since her mother never stopped enjoying watching them... But now I can meet with them whenever I want and Miss I can have the TV to herself, not that they have been showing it on TV for years, though...

So hello mates, glad to meet you all again!

06 October 2011

Nicholas Sparks


I resently bought this book...


..when I really wanted something new to read. I had wanted to read his books for a while, since I so much like the two films made from his books that I´ve seen, Message in a bottle and Dear John.

So what did I think about it? Well, the story was good, the people easy to sympatice with, but still it didn´t touch my heart. I really don´t know why, but I guess it has something to do with his writing. But on the other hand many people like his books, so maybe it´s me, I don´t know.

Since I so much like the movie Dear John I really have wanted to read the book, so when I saw it at the bookstore yesterday I actually read the end of it there (shame on me!) and I´m glad I did, for the ending wasn´t as in the movie, that is happy and I want happy endings!! I guess the movie Message in a bottle is more true to the book since it ends bad too... But even if it does, the rest of the movie is so very good that I still like it. But I just couldn´t stand if Dear John had ended as in the book, those two people touched me such much that I´d be cruched if they didn´t end up together in the end!! The actors are so very good, they make your heart brake.





I´m quite sad that I didn´t like the book, since I really wanted to find something new to like, but not much to do about it. I will make a go for In Austenland by Shannon Hale next, I believe that will be in my tast.



16 July 2011

Recension

Vi har gäster på besök några dagar och det är väldigt trevligt. Men man vill ju inte sitta framför datorn och uggla då, så därför kom det ingenting om vad jag tyckte om nya Harry Potter- filmen i går. Men nu har jag stigit upp lite tidigare än de andra och ska nu ge mitt omdöme om den.

Måste börja med att säga att den, förstås, var bra. Men kan inte låta bli att tycka att det var lite väl mycket action för min smak. Jag gillar ju långsamt tempo och älskar den första delen jättemycket. All denna action gör att de andra scenerna, som ju finns där insprängda, inte riktigt får den lugn och ro man skulle vilja ha till dem eftersom de försvinner för fort och så är man tillbaka på slagfältet.

Jag grät inte mycket trots alla förluster, det var mest bara en stor, mörk sorg som sänkte sig över mig, på grund av dem. Grät gjorde jag först när Harry tog fram uppståndelsestenen och alla de älskade, men förlorade, människorna, trädda fram för honom, det var otroligt gripande. Och allra sist, vid sista scenen, när man såg de tre vännerna stå på perongen och titta efter Hogwartsexpressen, som förde iväg deras barn, så drabbades jag för en kort stund av den omtalade Nu-är-det-slut-sorgen.

Men man kan ju komma tillbaka gång på gång för att besöka dem och om man inte tycker att det är tillräckligt så kan man ju glädja sig över att J K Rowling kommer att starta en ny hemsida, som kommer att öppna i oktober, och vars namn är http://www.pottermore.com/. Där kommer det att finnas en del roligheter, vet inte så mycket ännu, men tydligen kommer hon själv att berätta sånt där som hon hållit på i alla år, om vad som händer utöver det vi kan läsa. Det ska bli roligt.

Tyvärr var det regnigt igår och därför inte så roligt att vara ute så det blev inte några storartade aktiviteter med gästerna, men var på thairestaurang och på loppis. Lite väl dyrt, men jag hittade den här lilla boken som jag genast förälskade mig i.

Den var alldeles för dyr så maken fick betala och kunde då pruta ner på priset! Jag själv är värdelös på att pruta, skulle inte ens få för mig att försöka... Är alldeles för mesig.

Självklart kommer den här att bli till ett omslag på någon liten scrapbook vad det lider. Men eftersom omslaget är så väldigt vackert får det nog allt bli något väldigt speciellt av den.

Jag har ett lite resealbum att visa er, som jag nyligen gjort om två långa tågresor som jag och barnen gjorde förra sommaren. Här är lite bilder på det.






Maken undrade, när han såg min Sverige-stämpel en gång, vad i all världen jag skulle använda den till, men just till sånt här är det jättekul. När jag såg den här stämpeln i nån av alla de online-butiker som finns där ute så var den verkligen ett måste, en sån där som man defintivt vet att man kommer att använda gång på gång. Jag älskar kartor.

14 July 2011

Jag rekommenderar

Idag tänkte jag komma med ett filmtips. Hade länge gått och klurat på om jag skulle köpa filmen "Dear John", som Lasse Hallström regisserat, men inte kunnat bestämma mig. Jag gillar inte att lägga pengar på något som jag kanske inte gillar, men det lät som en historia som jag skulle tycka om...


Så i förra veckan såg jag att man fick den på köpet tillsammans med ett magasin och då slog jag till. Tidningen var jag inte intresserad av, så den åkte i första bästa papperskorg, men filmen var jag lycklig över. 

Så vad tyckte jag då om filmen? Jo,den var väldigt bra. En lagom blandning av lyckligt och smärtsamt. Den är efter en roman av Nicholas Sparks och nu har jag ju blivit sugen på att läsa boken. När jag kikade efter den såg jag att han skrivit massor av böcker, inkl "Message in a bottle", som också blivit film, med bl a Kevin Costner och Paul Newman, och som också är en väldigt bra film. Den är samma blandning av lycka och  smärta, lite mer smärta än "Dear John" dock.

Har redan hunnit se filmen flera gånger, vilket är typiskt mig, när jag gillar något.

Så har ni inte redan sett den - se den!

05 February 2011

Two good bargains

I went to the big town yesterday to leave Miss E at a friend´s house, where she´s gonna stay until tomorrow, when we meet at church. Had Master E with me because we should shoehunt. He needed a pair of sunday shoes to go with his suit. I knew this shoe store had had really nice shoes before so we went there and big signs said: "half price on everything, the store is closing". We found two very nice kinds of shoes for him and baught three pairs, in different sizes, of cause. We got them all for 200 Skr, which would be about 25 USD. I truely like such bargains.

The other bargain I made last night was this:

A small album with white cardsstock pages. For this I paid 20Skr (2.50 USD). The former price was 99 Skr. I think I will use it for an album about Miss S´s wedding, besides the pages I will make for the family album and the Our grown children´s album. I only have one regret, why didn´t I buy the other one that was left too...?

I´m a dvd junkie. I don´t watch much TV, but I do watch films and tv-series on dvd and right now this is what´s rolling:

I love The West Wing (in Sweden it was called Vita Huset, The White House). I whatch it once or twice a year and I have all the seasons. I do not agree with all their oppinions, like morals and family values, but I love the intelligent dialog, the crazy humor and the insight into this special world, even though I do understand that it is fiction... It is such a great production, you don´t see that to often, unfortunatly. I would so not be able to live this kind of life, with the constant pressure and everything. They must be very extrovert persons.

 Kathy Osmond wrote on her blog, http://onebadappledish.blogspot.com/ , about a book about being an introvert or an extrovert. Very interesting. I´m a very much an introvert. And since 75% of all people are extroverts they kind of don´t understand how we others function at all, and that make us very strange to them. But I am very happy about the way I am and if others think I´m strange, who cares...?

Well, time is flying, so I´d better be running. See you!

26 January 2011

Back to school

cOur telephone line is having problems, which also means that both our internet and the cable tv is only working when it feels like it, or whatever it is. So the post I should have posted yeaterday I just couldn´t. But I hope the internet will cooperate long enough for me to get it done now.

So back to school was in August, but I made the layout on monday. And here it is.






I love school related things, like Tom Hanks talking about "bouquets of freshly sharpend pensils" in You´ve got mail. You´ve got mail is one of my favorite movies. I never get tired of seeing it, it almost makes me want to move to New York... No, not really. I love the country and NY has more people than our entire country, so no. But they sure have managed to create a cozy small town feeling in the movie.

Enjoy your evening/day!