Love film?

As gift Techie (17) has been given a three month package of the ‘Love Film’ deal – four films a month for three months.

We have made a list, between us, of ‘must see’ films.
On Saturday night we watched ‘Schindler’s List’ which was brilliant and gruelling.

Just wondering if any of you have a few favourite ‘must see’ films to recommend?

Ryanair’s latest

According to a German newspaper a Ryanair captain evicted 120 passengers from a flight from the Canary Islands to Belgium. The group, described as young people and students, had refused to pay excess baggage charges. It is not made clear, but I assume that they had checked in on-line and then turned up with too much or overweight cabin luggage, which a stewardess demanded they pay extra for. The Spanish police decided that none of the group should be allowed to fly, for the safety of the remaining passengers who took off three hours late.  The Belgian Foreign Ministry then put pressure on Ryanair to bring the stranded group home today.

Ryanair likes its passengers to check in on-line, but this invites this  sort of abuse of the cabin baggage rules shown here. I’ve seen it myself on easyjet, with passengers having to pay up before they are allowed on board or in one case a bag full of books being emptied out on the floor to be left behind. I know everyone likes to criticise Ryanair and in this instance they seem to have brought the problem down on themselves. If passengers were made to check in at the airport, luggage could be weighed and scrutinised  before boarding and any problems sorted out without the other passengers being held up.

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Honestly you couldn’t make this up…

Thursday, late lunch-time- and only a small window of time, but may just enough to nick across the road from the office where I was based that day, to get to the cash-point, and pick up some spends ready for the reunion weekend and to put the promised £10 on Techie’s phone, plus get a bite to eat from the Co-op?

The first hurdle was the pedestrian crossing. Dum-de-dum. Come on. So slow….but not worth the risk of trying to run across with lorries thundering past.

Then I reached the cash-point and with the sun glare on the green screen I couldn’t see the display, but I pushed in my card and then shaded the screen with my hands.
Still no display.
Darn it, I thought -or words to that effect, it’s not working.
I pressed the card return and no card rolled back out… but instead, weirdly,  a small screw driver head poked out and waved around – a bit like a worm blindly sniffing the air. I looked about — looking for the camera. Surely this was some kind off joke? Continue reading “Honestly you couldn’t make this up…”

Core values in action

In a frantic hurry I rushed from my house to be on time for an engagement that had just popped up suddenly. As I’d have to park the car some distance from my rendezvous it was quicker running. Unless you’re running for a bus it does look suspicious to see a grown-up sprinting down the street. However, care went out the window as my meeting was important so I ran like the wind. Continue reading “Core values in action”