Bedknobs and Broomsticks

The first film I remember seeing was in infant school, I could have been anything from four to ten but I think I was probably five or six when I sat in the assembly hall, legs crossed, staring through the darkness at the projector screen to watch... "Bedknobs and Broomsticks". 

This afternoon, I sat and watched it again.  It was the underwater sequence that I remember the most and it's decades since I've sat and watched the whole thing through and I had totally forgotten that the amazing Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson star.  Admittedly, it's a little psychedelic in places, but it was the 70's, so you have to forgive.  With a supporting part, is national treasure, Sir Bruce Forsyth, until very recently, the King of Strictly over here, also, the amazing Mr Roddy McDowell.  It must be mind blowing to see your professional life archived in technicolour... and in black and white.

Today is the eve of New Year's Eve, I rose, had coffee in my weekend Starbucks haunt, had a brief jaunt around some of the sales, picked up some ingredients and headed home to make chicken soup and re-start the de-cluttering.  I really feel that by this time next year, I may have nothing to do ;)

This afternoon, while I sorted, I've watched "Scrooged", again, for probably the fifth time this December, one of my all time favourites, gotta love Bill Murray, then "A Christmas Carol", the animated Jim Carrey version, God Bless Dickens.

I note that the nights are at last drawing out, I'll still be returning home in the dark once I'm back to work, but at least I have the promise that Spring is on it's way.