17 March 2009
16 February 2009
Classic Movie Review - Kingdom of the Spiders



KotS tells the story of a small town somewhere in mid-America that begins to lose cattle, and then people, to a gathering horde of tarantual-like spiders. The Sheriff (played by William Shatner of Captain Kirk fame) and the love-interest vet lead a few hopefuls in their fight against the spiders, but can they survive when the whole town is covered in cobwebs?
KotS is one of those fantastically kitsch 70's disaster movies, where people pay the price of their follies; this time it appears to be the overuse of insecticide that has caused mother earth to fight back with hairy eight legged horror.
It's hard to know which is more fun, the Shat's over-acting or those 70's shirts with the giant collars. But the real stars of the movies are the spiders that fall out or crawl from unexpected places and keep you cheering on to take out those b-grade stars!
11 February 2009
20 January 2009
Goddess Grace



We were lucky enough to get to see Grace Jones live at the Enmore Theatre last week. We had seen her once before in Rome in 2000 and knew we were in for something special. We weren't disappointed at all!
Contrary to the common opinion expressed to us before hand, Miss Jones was on time, professional, chatty, tantrum free and, most important of all, utterly F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S!!!!
Grace perfomed many of her classics as well as songs from her new album Hurricane. The concert was fantastic, a true performance that had the whole audience screaming for more.
Grace performed in a corset and g-string, leaving the stage at the end of each song to come out in new hat/mask and/or jacket. Highlights of the performance included Grace singing Slave to the Rhythmn (and then walking around the stage introducing the band) whilst hula-hooping, using a shiny hat to turn herself into a human mirrorball and a true performance piece for the title song Hurricane from her album which took our breath away.
She may be in her 60's but Grace Jones is still fierce and still can rock the world!
Contrary to the common opinion expressed to us before hand, Miss Jones was on time, professional, chatty, tantrum free and, most important of all, utterly F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S!!!!
Grace perfomed many of her classics as well as songs from her new album Hurricane. The concert was fantastic, a true performance that had the whole audience screaming for more.
Grace performed in a corset and g-string, leaving the stage at the end of each song to come out in new hat/mask and/or jacket. Highlights of the performance included Grace singing Slave to the Rhythmn (and then walking around the stage introducing the band) whilst hula-hooping, using a shiny hat to turn herself into a human mirrorball and a true performance piece for the title song Hurricane from her album which took our breath away.
She may be in her 60's but Grace Jones is still fierce and still can rock the world!
07 January 2009
Nigel's World of Cruising
Nigel came along on our recent cruise with us and put together this special edition video extolling the wonders of cruising.
06 January 2009
Happy 2009!

Our new year resolution? Well it probably should have been to update our blog more often, but I'm afraid we just had too much champagne to think of any at the time!
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