Frizzling Friday

Well, it had to happen.  Now it is too hot! Certainly too hot for me, I cannot take it like I used to.  All through May with the dreary skies, the rain and the cold, the sun was up there rising higher and higher in the sky and I told the family it would come in with a vengeance without us having the chance to get used to it.

I am so glad we got the gardening done when we did (although I still have plants on order) because after four days of being perfectly fine out there I am now covered in the most horrendous heat rash.  It came out of nowhere. Went to bed on Wednesday night with no sign of it, woke up scratching on Thursday morning absolutely smothered.  Out has come the Calamine lotion and I am now so thickly covered with that I look like an extra from Michael Jackson's "Thriller".  The postman saw me this morning and I do not think the poor man will ever be the same again.

I can see the funny side of the Calamine but the itching is not funny and now I cannot even step into my garden for fear of making it worse.  At least I can look at it from the lounge.  If the plants arrive next week and it is still this hot then him indoors will have to do the necessary.  Poor plants. Mike is not the gentlest of men when handling things and does not know a dandelion from a rose.  I shall have to shout instructions from the back step.  He will not be best pleased.

The boys were over this morning so I am sharing some of the latest pictures with you.

As you can see, they really love playing with their bricks and Nathan goes to great lengths to make his "buildings" as tall as they can be.  Of course, he has not got the hang of creating a firm base so they always topple and that always makes him laugh.

Last night Mike and I had a date with "King Kong".  I know that some people have panned this picture but we thoroughly enjoyed it.  The main gripe people have is that it takes too long before you actually see Kong. For some reason today people want instant gratification, they want it and they want it now, they are not prepared to wait.  Well, I like the suspense to build up and I was glad we got to know the characters first and just how they all came to be going to find Skull Island.  The special effects are superb and certainly thrilling, lots more "creatures" than in the Fay Wray version.  Yes, they did completely gloss over just how they transported Kong back to New York in a ship that was obviously too small and how they would have restrained him on the voyage or how they would have fed him.  The ending of this film is so well know and perhaps it was a little drawn out but extremely well done and just as in the original, you end up feeling so sorry for the poor ape.   We did not know how long the film was before we put it on and were amazed when it finished to find it ran for just under three hours but it passed so fast that it certainly did not seem that long. We do not care what other people think, we really and truly enjoyed it and Kong certainly looked real, not like the original version, although that was excellent for its time, Kong was obviously a model.  This fellow is so life-like that after a while you forget that it is not real.  Well, worth a viewing if you have not already seen it.

Now I am off to get a nice cup of tea and replenish my Calamine Lotion and no, dear readers, you will not be getting any photographs of me.

Have a great weekend everyone and COME ON ENGLAND!!!  Good luck to our team, let us hope we have reason to really celebrate.