Sunday Neighborliness

Yesterday I spent a pleasant afternoon Chez Grrr. I’ve been trying, since they moved just 10 minutes walk away, to perfect the normal neighbourly custom of popping around to drop something off and staying for a cup-of-tea and, perhaps, a hobnob. Five hours, a bottle of wine and highly enjoyable 'Bourne Identity' later, it proves that I still have some work to do on that score. Not that I’m complaining.

I got home just in time to watch the utterly captivating 'Gideon’s Daughter'. Stephen Poliakoff’s stuff is always worth making time for, and this was no exception. Bill Nighy appeared to be doing Hugh Grant again (as he appeared to in Richard Curtis’ ‘The Girl in the Café’ last year) but it didn’t detract quite as much this time.

In complete contrast, I followed that up with the Closing Ceremony for the Olympic Winter Games in Turin. Like the opening ceremony, this was completely barking in places, the medieval carnival in particular, but no less spectacular for that. The flying men hovering on jets of air like skydivers were a great touch. I’d love to have a go, but maybe not in front of an audience of billions.