A busy weekend for me, indeed it was.  After finishing work on Friday I was occupied with the beginnings of my personal Ion Age project and then come Saturday it was all hands to the pumps to get smartened up and ship shape for a wedding to which myself and my good lady had been invited.  So adding the need for clothing and gifts Saturday night was the culmination of a day long build up.  Sunday then saw a family visit to Kilmarnock and the Cinema to see the latest Disney animated film Brave.  This was my youngest, the Warrior’s, first visit to the cinema.  So how did it all go?

Pretty Ladies and Excellent Company too!

Overall is went well but I did find it a long haul.  Basically after a week at work I am not really in the mood for a lot of driving and dressing up.  I have to say congratulations to the bride and groom, Sara & Gary, on a great event and for putting on a spiffing buffet too (you know where I spent a lot of the evening!).  Above you can see a picture of my good lady in her finery along with her brand new hairstyle in a very fetching shade of purple and the bride (for those who do not know my wife is the one on the left).  As an extra fact of interest the evening music in the form of a mix deck and DJ was provided by a family friend of Sara’s one of the founding members of 80’s group Black Lace.  I kid you not.  He was a great DJ and aside from being older looked just as I remembered from the heady days of the 1980’s.  Before you ask, no, I did not dance to Agadoo.  Video link below for those who have no idea what I am on about…steel yourself.

Once I had recovered on the Sunday morning I decided to take the three lads to see the new Disney film Brave.  A children’s animated movie set in a fictional vision of Scotland.  I chose this movie for two reasons.  Firstly what Scotsman can resist seeing what the Disney leviathan has done for his national stereotype and secondly it was to be my youngest The Warrior’s first visit to the cinema.  As you can see below he was not quite sure what was going to happen!

This is gonna be fun, right?

He was not sure at first but when the screen lit up and the lights dropped he was glued to his seat,vastly larger than himself of course!  I have put in a video of the film below if you are interested but my own opinion was that Brave was a good movie.  It had good pace, lots of gags, a plot that had as couple of moments of real peril and emotional pull as well.   While I still think, and most likely will not change this opinion, that the prices of tickets for the cinema is way too high especially for children; I am glad I chose Brave and took the five of us to see it.  In fact the whole movie is worth it for then ten minutes of the clans and the highland games in the first half.  Billy Connelly is a superb talent in person and in voice.

As always I promise to answer the heap of email that awaited me this morning as fast as I can.

‘Ma celtic blood calls fur freedom, but ma airm hulds the sword o’ the clan tay.’

GBS