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Paddington in Peru

This bear knows how to be caught up in adventure whilst caring for his relatives. So many cute photos for the album that show his family achieving their goals on a wing and a prayer (their light plane flights are phenomenal) and this bear always achieves against the odds. I like it when he says he was taught to give a hard stare when someone was rude, and his good behaviour outdoes all those with unsavoury purposes yet again. What a triumph to behold and so funny, hopefully not at the expense of ‘typical stereotypes’ that we often see in British comedy… however the marmalade sandwich will fix all.

Renovating.

This is my current challenge. What will result? I am excited by the possibilities I can see. How amazing. I am looking forward to its completion if ever. However I cannot see a completion date as yet as it is an ongoing process of improving what started off as my project. We’ll see what time and effort can bring.

&Juliet

Great musical theatre, about Juliet not fretting when Romeo apparently dies but buoyed up by her friends and nurse’s goading she gains confidence, dates and a new lease on life! Well a happy ending after about 30 pop songs sung thanks to ‘Anne & William Shakespeare’.

Showing at Lyric theatre now for a short time.

https://www.sydneylyric.com.au/and-juliet/

‘Becoming a Synodal People’

The event this week at my church was a panel of 4 people discussing the future of women leadership in the Catholic Church. The discussion was led by Geraldine Doogue and was live streamed. I attended and it was a lively thought provoking discussion.

The Heron & The Boy

For me, the cartoon movie has a heron who enables the boy to enter other realms and with the heron he travels to the place of a god- like leader where he has a little insight into the leader’s ulterior motives and I think avoids being trapped in a negative leadership system. The heron represents positive and negative influences and assists upon a journey of choices to comment as needed on how it appears from a more worldly perspective.

Apart from having 2x Japanese Exchange students stay at our place in my youth, I worked briefly for a sushi bar. This gave my a little chink of light into a Japanese side of life, as the cartoon does too.

Miracle Club (2023)

Great ‘doco’ type movie, with Dame Maggie Smith’s humour stripe. It showed the different stories of a group of women who knew eachother a little who went to Lourdes France for their cure, hailing from Dublin Ireland – whether their malady was obvious or not, and they grew in warmth and understanding of each of their true characters and what it took to be them.