Sunday, August 13, 2006

The Hours


We watched The Hours last night, which is a pretty good movie

http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/01/23/the_hours_2002_review.shtml

and ties in with our reading of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolfe.
Rowan was off to friend Hazuki's birthday party today, this involved Pizza Express and a ghost walk [pretty much top dollar for Rowan].
Last week I had a look at the National Trust gardens at Goddards, an arts and crafts house in York built for the Terry [chocolate] family. Those Quakers knew how to put up a pile of house alright [photo]. The gardens are only open in the summer but worth a look.
Terry's factory shut last year. With the British Sugar plant shutting this year as well, and with the Thrall rail wagon plant shutting two years ago, manufacturing in York is clearly in decline. The big question, is how long until Rowntrees go the same way.

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