Claire's blog

I got a parcel from home in the post today with two DVDs, a bracelet I’ve been asked to extend, my mail, and a surprise scarf! Good job too, as we’ve had snow flurries on and off to day, and it’s rather nippy. I shall be nice and warm while I walk over to my […]

Last year Dad got a nest-cam for Christmas and we watched a pair of blue tits build a nest, lay eggs, and then… vanish. When we cleaned out the box the eggs had gone as well, so we wondered if something had got into the nest box (the blue tits widened the entrance an awful […]

I was going to be having friends visiting this weekend but they chickened out on me at the last minute 😥 So I found myself browsing the shelves at the DVD rental place AGAIN. This time it was Serenity and Nanny McPhee. Rob recently lent me the series ‘Firefly’ on DVD, so I was quite […]

Except this time I wasn’t renting, I handed over good money for them. Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit has come out, and let’s face it, there was no way I wasn’t going to buy that. So today I popped into HMV while I was in town to see how much they were […]

Managed to find a branch of the DVD rental place with the Corpse Bride, so I went for a bit of a Tim Burton fest and rented both that and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (which I did manage to see in the cinema). The Corpse Bride was great, I liked the story and I […]

Wanted to rent the Corpse Bride this weekend as I’ve been wanting to see it ever since it first arrived in the cinema, but the video shop didn’t have any copies in stock. Instead I got Pride and Prejudice (already seen in the cinema) and Madagascar, which I’ve been wanting to see for a while. […]

At BinI I was chatting with Marie and we found that neither of us had yet seen Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, although we both wanted to. We didn’t think it would still be on at the cinema, but today we made it to a matinee showing at the Eye cinema – us […]