Day: 19 October 2008

this is ...

This is … my favourite film(s)

How could I possibly choose a favourite film?  So I haven’t – instead, here are some of the films that we own on DVD/video – so either we must like them a lot or else they were selling very cheaply.  We rarely buy grown-up DVDs or videos but have accumulated a huge number of kids videos, mainly bought at garage sales and op shops.  In my single days I used to go to a movie every week.  Actually, before having kids hubby and I went to a movie almost every week.  Since having kids we go to see kids movies two or three times per year.

This is ... my favourite movie by you.

From the left:

  • Cars – hubby bought this DVD, ostensibly for Clare.
  • Emma – I love Jane Austen movies!  Bring on an English costume drama any day, I reckon.
  • Baz Luhrman movies: Romeo & Juliet, Moulin Rouge, Strictly Ballroom.  Great music, fantastic costumes, terrific stories.  I adore musicals in any format!
  • Chicago – yep, another musical.
  • Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – now an Australian classic.  And it has music!
  • The Lord of the Rings trilogy – absolutely brilliant.  Both hubby and I love this series.  Incredible stuff.  If only we had a decent telly to watch them on again.
  • The ABC TV series A River Somewhere – this was a present to hubby.  Magnificent scenery.
  • The BBC TV series Hornblower – this was a present to hubby too.  Swashbuckling and magnificent Welsh scenery.

Thanks Hokey for this week’s theme and thanks to Angela for hosting “this is”! 

by thornberry
fabric stash, sewing, Sunday Stash

Sunday Stash #3

Like many young Australians, in my early twenties I headed off to London for a year to work and travel around Europe (I managed to fit in Morocco and Egypt as well).  Mum came to visit for a month while I was based in the UK, and during our travels we came across the factory of Linton Tweeds, in Carlisle.  They produce woven boucles and tweeds etc for the likes of Chanel. 

Sunday stash - Linton boucle by you.

So here is my little piece of designer fabric – now 15 years old, and still not transformed into the Chanel-type jacket it was originally destined to become.  The colour is even brighter in reality; somewhere between pink and purple.  I’m glad I kept the receipt – looking at Linton’s mail-order website they now charge around 25 pounds per metre.

Thanks to Tamara for Sunday Stash!  Pop over to her blog to find out who else is playing along.

by thornberry