The Grey

A trip to the "pictures" this evening to see the new Liam Neeson pic "The Grey".





So what's it about well there's snow, wolves, planes, snow, a crash, more snow and cold.


The movie throws the characters into a variety of situations. The sort that make me think to myself as I'm watching "what would I do".


Liam Neeson for a change gets to play close to type as his character is from Northern Ireland, enabling him to speak more truly. The bit were he vents skyward is particularly Northern Irish and it makes a nice change from him working through a script with a dodgy North American accent.


So it makes you think, makes you question and doesn't give the viewer a perfect boxed off ending. It has the sort of ending that offers viewers the opportunity to finish it off their way as they undertake the post movie analysis on the road home.


Go and see it, especially if you like Liam Neeson and snow.

Squelch!

A lot of rain has fallen recently, too much for the clay soil to handle.


So the water sits atop of the ground, collecting in pools behind the raised edge of the last print of the boot to pass through.


Waiting for either a mass to push it down to the stream or more likely at this time of year for it to freeze into cracknel topped puddles.


I hasten to add this is not my garden which although waterlogged does not yet resemble this picture. Having the advantage of a downward gradient allows for a certain degree of run off.


It's still muddy, squelchy even and clearly the conditions where Wellington boots need to be worn.


Like in this picture really, these boots are not Wellingtons and their waterproof ability is not what it was. Must go before I get wet socks.

Park run pics

Finally some pics from this morning.
The information board and the masses waiting on the "gun" well the guy who said
"1 to get ready, 2 to get steady and 3 to GO!"
(he didn't really)

Park run part 2

Puff, pant, nnng.
I did it, I finished not the best of efforts but happy with it. At least I finished before the old runner with legs like pipe cleaners, one of the three dogs and most of the children.  
Here's some video taken afterwards.
Sorry about the width of the video I'm still experimenting.
Finally a big thanks to the Edinburgh Parkrun team, my first today but not the last (have to beat the other two dogs!) and I will help out with marshalling too.

Park run part 1

Hello
So up at the crack of dawn, well actually before that to get some fuel down my throat for this mornings exertions.
 Back to bed for a nap, then up again to get myself ready for the Parkrun.

Spring is coming

Walking back from the post office a few hours ago I was aware that despite the time the darkness had not yet enveloped everything.


The setting sun provided an orange back drop to the mundane street scene. The still bare trees stood out very well against the lighting and scenery.


With the light staying around that little bit longer each day and
song birds providing the sound track it did indeed feel as if Spring was not far away.

I've come back

Hello,
I have decided to come back to blogger from Posterous which is a good blog hosting site, no doubt but in my opinion changes it has made have made the "back end" more difficult to navigate. In that respect it is easier here.


So here I am and hopefully I will stay here for a bit.


You will see from the imported posts from elsewhere that some of the images are way too big and don't look too clear but they will fade into the past and over time images will be formatted for blogger.


The video and audio posts made onto Posterous will stay there but a link to the original post sits at the bottom. One of the problems is that you cannot easily move your own content from Posterous and so it stays.


I have decided to post audio to AudioBoo and video to You Tube, why not everybody else does. This will at least work around the concern that my own content is locked in.


So here we go into the brave renewed blogger world......

Dusk

Taken with picplz.

Brush strokes in the sky

Taken with picplz.

Shadow

Taken with picplz.

The road to.......

Taken with picplz.