Tuesday 19th March 2024

As Jools has every other day off, we thought we would do something with our time together.

So, for the first such day, we went to the pictures at two to see Dune II.

We were first to enter the auditorium, Jools with a hot dog and me with a cotton sack sized bag of popcorn and a dustbin sized cup of Cola.

Before then there was work.

Jools was off, of course, so she went upstairs to do some more sanding and painting, which I cracked down to battling the forces of sloth.

And drinking tea.

On her way back from the tip having dropped off the old carpet from the back room, she called in to get some warm pasties for lunch.

At twenty past two we drove into town to St James where the cinema is.

Now, and this is the truth, the St James development has been finished for some years, maybe nearly five years but this was my first time visiting Cineworld and its 5 (count 'em) screens.

We were to see Dune II having seen Dune I a couple of weeks back, so best see the sequel while it was still fresh in our minds.

What to make of the film? Well, as someone who has never read the books, it was a bit of a jumble, not as much as the first part, but it looked AMAZING.

It was a good film, but after two and a half hours, it just stopped. As the starships took off for a space battle in space with space lasers.

We came home, fed the cats and had a brew. It was getting dark, and the fox was on the lush asking for food, so I put a bowl out laden with old cat food and a pack of cheap dog food.

It all went.