B's son Richard has been making a film this week. He has been working as a film script editor now for a few years, and decided to make a short film from a script which he has written, and it was being filmed this week.
B was helping - driving actors around, sorting out vans and things, and also taking some pictures of the filming. It is all very professional - the film camera alone is worth £50,000, and the lighting engineer had a whole van full of equipment. The script needed a train and an airport for locations, and as it happened both are available round here, so the actors and crew came down from London and elsewhere to wet and rainy Wales for the filming.
Even at a few removes it was quite exciting.
There are flood alerts around, and the river near our office was way up the measuring stick. We don't have a serious flood alert on the property at the moment, but we have taken some precautions this weekend. The two mobile library vans have been parked off site, and we have made sure that electric cables etc are off the floor. Things at ground level that we can move to a safer place we have, but there is too much book stock to move, so it is is in the lap of the weather gods if they survive or not.
It is about 2 years since we last got flooded and had to decamp for months. We are feeling a tad jittery about it all.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
More wiii
I am a dwindling fire on most things on the wii. However my downhill slalom improved to 2 stars today which, condsidering I went through all the flags first time, is a real improvement.
It is interesting because I did get hot and sweaty tonight, doing about 20 mins of various exercises on the machine. Hotter than I expected to. Even bearing in mind my lack of fitness, I was still impressed at the effort it does take.
The diet had a slight wobble when the Cowbridge staff left us some really posh chocolates, and I did have a few of them. However the main meals are all being good and I have lost 2 lbs this week which is exactly on target for week one.
I am fairly pleased so far. However it is early days yet.
It is interesting because I did get hot and sweaty tonight, doing about 20 mins of various exercises on the machine. Hotter than I expected to. Even bearing in mind my lack of fitness, I was still impressed at the effort it does take.
The diet had a slight wobble when the Cowbridge staff left us some really posh chocolates, and I did have a few of them. However the main meals are all being good and I have lost 2 lbs this week which is exactly on target for week one.
I am fairly pleased so far. However it is early days yet.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Wiiiiiii
I have started using the wii fit today, and am enjoying it so far.
I am wobbly doing the balance stuff, and useless at skiing and heading.
I am better at yoga (which I have done before)
I am still coughing.
I am wobbly doing the balance stuff, and useless at skiing and heading.
I am better at yoga (which I have done before)
I am still coughing.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
New Year resolutions
I am not doing very well with these.
Although it is only 8 Jan, and I only have 2, I have yet to start them both.
One is to lose weight. However as I have had a mild fluish thing and now have a real cold, I don't see any point in starting the diet till I feel better because I know I will lapse.
I am closer to resolution 2 which is to get a bit fitter. We are not talking substantial marathon things here, but a bit fitter. I have bought the Wii fit plus, and this afternoon have attached the Wii to the tv in the sitting room, so come Monday (when hopefully I can do energetic things and not cough) I will start using it daily.
Actually today I did walk the dog, so that is something.
When it is light at night I will also do my walk up and down the cliff at the beach which is only about 20 mins, but is aerobic.
Over New Year we started talking about Hadrians Wall which Boo and Trev want to walk from end to end. B & I thought it sounded like a good idea, and so we are looking to do that in 2012. I am not fit enough to do it in 2011. Although I can happily do a 5 mile walk, doing 10 8 mile walks one after the other needs a bit more fitness than I have at the moment (desk jobs!!!!)
A TARGET!
I am really excited by the thought of it. Also we will be doing it just before my 59th birthday so it would be a good thing to do before hitting 60 as well.
We looked at other long walks as well. Some are very long (100s of miles) but some are more achievable, and could be fitted in after Hadrian. I think B & I will start with bite sized chunks of the Pembrokeshire path this summer - bits we haven't done before. The long term goal will be to do it all, but do it in bite size chunks. (It is one of the long ones.
B said I sounded aggressive when I just told him this, but I informed him I was being decisive!
Although it is only 8 Jan, and I only have 2, I have yet to start them both.
One is to lose weight. However as I have had a mild fluish thing and now have a real cold, I don't see any point in starting the diet till I feel better because I know I will lapse.
I am closer to resolution 2 which is to get a bit fitter. We are not talking substantial marathon things here, but a bit fitter. I have bought the Wii fit plus, and this afternoon have attached the Wii to the tv in the sitting room, so come Monday (when hopefully I can do energetic things and not cough) I will start using it daily.
Actually today I did walk the dog, so that is something.
When it is light at night I will also do my walk up and down the cliff at the beach which is only about 20 mins, but is aerobic.
Over New Year we started talking about Hadrians Wall which Boo and Trev want to walk from end to end. B & I thought it sounded like a good idea, and so we are looking to do that in 2012. I am not fit enough to do it in 2011. Although I can happily do a 5 mile walk, doing 10 8 mile walks one after the other needs a bit more fitness than I have at the moment (desk jobs!!!!)
A TARGET!
I am really excited by the thought of it. Also we will be doing it just before my 59th birthday so it would be a good thing to do before hitting 60 as well.
We looked at other long walks as well. Some are very long (100s of miles) but some are more achievable, and could be fitted in after Hadrian. I think B & I will start with bite sized chunks of the Pembrokeshire path this summer - bits we haven't done before. The long term goal will be to do it all, but do it in bite size chunks. (It is one of the long ones.
B said I sounded aggressive when I just told him this, but I informed him I was being decisive!
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
It all happens at once
Cowbridge branch library is being refurbished. It has had the builders in since October, and they were due to finish after Christmas. However because of the cold they couldn't lay concrete so they are running late.
The library furniture fitters were booked to be in this week - all by themselves to put in the shelving etc. They are there, but so are the builders.
And the painters.
And the decorators.
And the RFID self service people.
And some of our staff.
I am going there tomorrow too.
It is bedlam apparently.
Without heating. I shall wear my furry boots.
The library furniture fitters were booked to be in this week - all by themselves to put in the shelving etc. They are there, but so are the builders.
And the painters.
And the decorators.
And the RFID self service people.
And some of our staff.
I am going there tomorrow too.
It is bedlam apparently.
Without heating. I shall wear my furry boots.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Bit of a rubbish start to 2011
New year was lovely, and it was all great till the afternoon of 2nd Jan, then I felt achy and cold and developed a mild flu sort of thing. So spent the afternoon watching tv, went to bed at 7 and spent the next day either in bed or watching tv. Ho hum
I should be back at work today, but stayed in bed till 10 snoozing, and since then have done a little bit, then sat down for a rest, etc.
However my new iPod touch has come into its own because I found Radio 7 on it and was in bed listening to the dramatisation of the Hound of the Baskervilles earlier, which is something I find really relaxing. It is not Sherlock Holmes specifically, but to lie in bed being read to or talked to is a really lovely indulgence I find.
Luckily I have remembered I have a dentist appointment this afternoon - it is written into the diary at work - and I will be back in work tomorrow.
I hope everyone is having a good start to 2011, preferably minus the coughs, colds and flu that seem so prevalent.
I should be back at work today, but stayed in bed till 10 snoozing, and since then have done a little bit, then sat down for a rest, etc.
However my new iPod touch has come into its own because I found Radio 7 on it and was in bed listening to the dramatisation of the Hound of the Baskervilles earlier, which is something I find really relaxing. It is not Sherlock Holmes specifically, but to lie in bed being read to or talked to is a really lovely indulgence I find.
Luckily I have remembered I have a dentist appointment this afternoon - it is written into the diary at work - and I will be back in work tomorrow.
I hope everyone is having a good start to 2011, preferably minus the coughs, colds and flu that seem so prevalent.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
New Year begins
Today is 2 Jan 2011. Another new year begins.
It is odd how significant the change of year is, because it doesn't really make any change, or any difference, except for remembering to write the new year. However we mostly feel that it does make a difference.
We have had a lovely Christmas and New Year. All the children were home for Christmas, except for my son in law who was in Afghanistan. Both girls had dreadful coughs so we had a lazy, easy Christmas. My sister and husband came for New Year, which is also B's birthday, and again we had a lovely time.
I am now really tired for some reason, so am lazing watching the tv.
'A Matter of Life and Death' is on, with very young actors eg Richard Attenborough. I haven't seen this film for years, and it is even more surreal than I remembered it.
It is odd how significant the change of year is, because it doesn't really make any change, or any difference, except for remembering to write the new year. However we mostly feel that it does make a difference.
We have had a lovely Christmas and New Year. All the children were home for Christmas, except for my son in law who was in Afghanistan. Both girls had dreadful coughs so we had a lazy, easy Christmas. My sister and husband came for New Year, which is also B's birthday, and again we had a lovely time.
I am now really tired for some reason, so am lazing watching the tv.
'A Matter of Life and Death' is on, with very young actors eg Richard Attenborough. I haven't seen this film for years, and it is even more surreal than I remembered it.
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