Almost every night is a night out at the moment as I still have no kitchen at home (new one is due in 3 weeks-hurray!). When I do stay in it is pizza in front of the TV because we can eat with our fingers and the only places not covered in boxes are the sofa and the bed. I have yet to resort to eating in bed but that’s only because there is no TV in the bedroom! This week we have been avoiding Pizza because Simon has decided that his waist can take no more. He is shunning carbs until he can sit down without his jeans cutting him in half. So we went to the cinema instead – where we argued over whether salted pop-corn was a vegetable (Simon) or a carbohydrate (me). In the end I backed down and pretended it was a vegetable because I couldn’t bear the distraught look on his face. We saw Robin Hood with Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchet as Robin and Marion. I loved Gladiator so I was hopeful and I must say I really enjoyed it. Despite the terribly dodgy accents (Crowe veered wildly between Irish and several different versions of non-specific northern – but never, interestingly enough, Northern Irish); Marion moonlighting as a water-breathing Joan of Arc and several laugh out loud cheesy moments (“Every Englishman’s home is his castle!”) I was thoroughly entertained. However, you should also know that Simon nodded off a couple of times and at the end pronounced it a film with 5 beginnings and no end. So is it worth seeing or not? If you think salted pop-corn is a vegetable, probably not.
