The Ballad of Mulan

 

I went to see the one woman show The Ballad Of Mulan at the Storyhouse which I really enjoyed even though there was only 4 other audience members .

The story of Mulan’s ten year service in the Chinese Army , proved to be more harrowing and tense than anything portrayed in the Disney musical and the performance by Michelle Yin was top notch .

With so few people in the audience she kept looking at me during her monologues and I felt the whole production was just for me.

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Bless

 Arching up my heels

Looking up

Arms reaching

For the heights

And extraordinary depths

With expectant gratitude

That You

Lord 

Continue to 

Bless and bestow

Goodness

And mercy 

On me

A humbled 

Lowly servant

Of King Jesus

Thank you for 

Giving me words

To write

Turning over

A new leaf

Uncertain of 

Where it may lead

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Ken Dodd (1927-2018)

I am posting this at  2.22pm on February 2nd, 2022. That's 2.22 on the second day in the second month of the year 2022. You could even sing it like this: "Toot-toot-toot-toot-toot-toot-too!" As Ken Dodd, the late Liverpudlian comedian might have remarked, "How tickled I am!" to have stumbled upon such a thing. Not all days can be as silly as this one so let's enjoy it as long as we can. A bit of silliness is good for the soul..."Toot-toot-toot-toot-toot-toot-too!"

P.S. The name of this font is "Courgette". As far as I know, there is no font called "Zucchini"!

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A Mixed Bag

I’ll start off with a video of the Llandudno goats, who, after the recent storms have popped back into town for shelter and a bit of change of scene 

I had a nice nice last night, three mini gins, a packet of hula hoops and the Korean disaster movie Exit 

Bliss

The Korean movie business is indeed BIG business in the Far East and their take on my beloved 1970 disaster movies is an interesting one.

They are big budget, big stars and big effects just like their predecessors were but they have definite cultural differences which, in my mind, make them so very interesting.

Exit is an odd ball

Set largely in a large Korean Hotel we meet a loud extended family celebrating the patriarchs 70 birthday.

Only son Yongnam ( Jo Jung Suk) is a bit of a loser , but just so happens to love mountain climbing . He meets up with his mountain climbing crush Eiu Ju ( I’m Yun Ah) who just so happens to be the deputy manager of the hotel just as a mad terrorist unleashes poison gas in the city .

With his family trapped in the hotel, unable to reach the roof, Yongnam uses his climbing skills to get himself , his family and his potential and resourceful beau to safety .

Think  of a Korean Die Hard, Cliffhanger mixed with Towering Inferno and you will get only a flavour of this sort of comedy drama. Korean movies always seem to have a traditional versus modern divide. They are not adverse to have the hero and heroine cry like babies when the chips are down and most of the characters scream incessantly when under stress.  

I loved it even though it was rubbish.

One thing I love about South Korea is the traditional Hanbok dresses that many of the female characters wear in the movie. The juxtaposition between old and new in the new shiny Korea is a common theme in Korean films 

Anyhow today the village is brighter and Lots of people are about. Groups of men with shotguns unlocked have met West of the village on the grass verges for a shoot. 

I’ve been putting together a plant shelf on the patio. 

I used to pride myself at being able to look after a ventilated patient with 6 infusions and 10 syringe pumps running together without batting an eyelid.

The plant shelf took me 2 hours to construct and I still have pieces left over

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