vital functions
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kaberettWatching. Leverage: Redemption S01E07 & E08. Even the fucking ethics in this one didn't make any sense, emotional or otherwise. UGH.
Magic Mike (2012) and Magic Mike XXL (2015). We watched the former by accident -- I'd heard lots of good things about the latter and we were aiming to watch that, but instead found the first film from 2012 on Netflix and started watching it by mistake and then... kept watching it! I am so here for Channing Tatum living his best life, by which I obviously mean "stripping to get start-up funds for his independent furniture design company". I really loved all of the character portrayals and development in it, which... meant I found XXL a let-down in comparison. The best articulation I've managed so far is that it... feels like Mike's emotional arc in XXL mostly involves going backwards? In basically every respect? Which I am happy to expound on in comments, but, yes. The mirror dance set piece was amazing, and there were lots of Bits of the film I enjoyed, but as a whole it didn't quite work for me.
(I note also that the sizeism-for-lols in the first film made me reaaaaaally wary about the treatment of all of the fat women in the second film, even though I think it was actually genuinely better? So that's a thing.)
Cooking. I was particularly pleased with the Dundee cake and the blackberry-and-almond buttermilk clafoutis.
Eating. An enormous pile of takeaway curry that did us three meals, which I enjoyed greatly (accompanied by the Magic Mike films, post-viva).
Today we had two meals in Cambridge -- lunch was sweetcorn-from-the-neighbour's-allotment plus tomato and basil (from my mother's garden) and mozzarella; dinner was bruschetta, and potatoes and beans from gardens various, and crumbed mushroom/aubergine/courgette, and salady bits, and also a plum cake.
Exploring. Shepreth Wildlife Park!
Growing. The allotment has been much neglected this week, for some reason...
Magic Mike (2012) and Magic Mike XXL (2015). We watched the former by accident -- I'd heard lots of good things about the latter and we were aiming to watch that, but instead found the first film from 2012 on Netflix and started watching it by mistake and then... kept watching it! I am so here for Channing Tatum living his best life, by which I obviously mean "stripping to get start-up funds for his independent furniture design company". I really loved all of the character portrayals and development in it, which... meant I found XXL a let-down in comparison. The best articulation I've managed so far is that it... feels like Mike's emotional arc in XXL mostly involves going backwards? In basically every respect? Which I am happy to expound on in comments, but, yes. The mirror dance set piece was amazing, and there were lots of Bits of the film I enjoyed, but as a whole it didn't quite work for me.
(I note also that the sizeism-for-lols in the first film made me reaaaaaally wary about the treatment of all of the fat women in the second film, even though I think it was actually genuinely better? So that's a thing.)
Cooking. I was particularly pleased with the Dundee cake and the blackberry-and-almond buttermilk clafoutis.
Eating. An enormous pile of takeaway curry that did us three meals, which I enjoyed greatly (accompanied by the Magic Mike films, post-viva).
Today we had two meals in Cambridge -- lunch was sweetcorn-from-the-neighbour's-allotment plus tomato and basil (from my mother's garden) and mozzarella; dinner was bruschetta, and potatoes and beans from gardens various, and crumbed mushroom/aubergine/courgette, and salady bits, and also a plum cake.
Exploring. Shepreth Wildlife Park!
Growing. The allotment has been much neglected this week, for some reason...
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Date: 2021-08-29 11:54 pm (UTC)Shepreth Wildlife Park is a lot of fun - we took the children there a few weeks ago. The otters are very vocal!