On Good Friday, while Daddy painted the gloss in Joel’s bedroom, the rest of us went to see “How to train your dragon” – the new blockbuster from Dreamworks. It was very good – the story was absorbing, and it was only afterwards when Steve asked if it was obvious it was made for 3D that I thought about the snarly dragons and the flying sequences which would probably, on reflection, have been quite good in 3D. We only saw the 2D version because Joel was scared enough as it was, and I didn’t want to make it so scary we had to leave…<\/p>\n
The colours of the dragons were astounding, the technical standard fabulous as usual – generally a top film I’d recommend, although sensitive pre-schoolers might need to sit on your knee from about half way through.<\/p>\n
I found, however, that I was distracted by Astrid’s jumper<\/a> (without the metal shoulder pads, mind!) – it looked really cool – as in “that’s a jumper I’d like to own” – and spent a lot of the time when she was on screen trying to work out how on would make such a jumper…<\/p>\n As though it were some kind of omen, following a link from woollywormhead’s blog, I stumbled across this: bingeknitter’s violet & green shawl<\/a><\/p>\n This led me to look for yarn in a suitable colourway: blue moon do a colourway that seems pretty suitable…<\/a> but given that it’s mostly sock yarn, I might continue the search elsewhere as well…<\/p>\n The other hang-over from the movie is that we got a free sticker book with Joel’s snack-pack. Lily, who had very sensibly gone for just-popcorn, didn’t get a sticker book. This has been quite traumatic, although after initially not being keen to share, Joel has conceded that Lily can do the pages which have spellings on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Good Friday, while Daddy painted the gloss in Joel’s bedroom, the rest of us went to see “How to train your dragon” – the new blockbuster from Dreamworks. It was very good – the story was absorbing, and it … Continue reading