Thursday 12th July
Last night at the Republic Bar…does this sound like the beginning of something very out there and maybe a bit risqué? Well it wasn’t. It was a very pleasant couple of hours spent in a very nice pub with very nice friends and the possibility of being at home watching Masterchef (on magical TV delay) at 7.30….
So to begin again…
Last night at the Republic Bar Pauline told us that there is a new treatment for motion sickness, a sort of program run, maybe by physiotherapists, and involving eye movement exercises. Or something. It sounded all very wonderful – if anyone knows about it…a sometimes seasick 2XSsailor needs to know!
We also talked about our seventeen year old selves…oh what intellectual snobs we were! Pauline, who now loves a romantic comedy and a bit of pop culture, would only go to see films with subtitles, at seventeen. I can remember being a bit the same… In first year uni I earnestly sat through a whole week of very old crackly Japanese films with very old crackly subtitles, all totally mysterious and peculiar. The most memorable one was about a poor man in a remote Japanese community who was ostracised because of his extremely bad breath… Whereas now, what I expect from a film is…to be entertained! And without being required to perform too much in the way of mental gymnastics!
Were you surprised at what your children were reading at 17? I think I was obsessed by ... David Eddings and John Marsden.
ReplyDeleteWhile I was obsessed with Judy bloom (especially Forever) , actually that was more like 12, oh dear. Hmm 17 I think was the beginning of my Steven King addiction. Yes I remember going fishing with Ben happy to sit and catch nothing in an uncomfortable dingy for hours with 'It' at the ready. No literary snobs been bred by you then. Xxx
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