ORIGINALLY MARKETED as a quasi-horror flick, a la its Blumhouse Productions stablemate The Purge, The Hunt is a strange little cinematic oddity. Later it was promoted, more accurately, as a violent dark comedy with political ambitions. Caught up ...
EMMA AND JAMES are on a wee break, so for the last five days granny and gramps have been substitute mummy and daddy. I’m sitting here typing with every bone in my body aching and ...
IT’S BEEN AN INTERESTING WEEK of ups and downs. The ups? We made it through another week of battling storms to get to nursery. Jamie had a brilliant week of planting sunflowers, singing new songs ...
AS IT HAS BEEN a while since I brought you an instalment of ThinkMovies, I’m sure you’ll understand that I’ve seen quite a few films since we last took a trip to the multiplex together. ...
The Mummy Diaries – Week 29
EXCITING TIMES AHEAD. Well I was hoping it’s exciting times! This week, I had been invited by one of my friends to see a fortune teller ...
The Mummy Diaries – Week 28
IT’S BEEN ONE STORM after another this last week. No, not in the house for once! Well maybe just a couple of small hurricanes. We just ...
The Mummy Diaries – Week 27
YIP, this week has been all about me! Well, when I say all about me, what I really mean is it’s been all the about the ...
FOR NATIONALISTS, independence is the ultimate carrot; the shining answer to anything less than ideal in present-day Scotland; the be-all and end-all of politics. Such quasi-religious beliefs exercise a terrific lure, as nationalists demonstrate on ...
THE SERIOUSLY NASTY PATERNALISTS are in terminal moral decay. With a child's name and innocence held to ransom by the most wicked of political cults the question remains simply this,
How low ...
The Mummy Diaries week 26
A BUSY WEEK of play dates, soft play, play school and the usual running about. We’ve managed to hit another milestone this week as Jamie has said ...
WE HAVE NEARLY MANAGED to crawl our way through the endless January days. Everybody is skint, everybody is trying to eat healthy (mostly because we’re skint and can’t afford takeaway’s), everybody is trying to exercise ...
The Mummy Diaries – Week 24
I REALISED pretty quickly that as a parent, your time is very precious. I mean, everyone says the time passes so quickly. And it does. The ...