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  "All Quiet On The Western Front" (2022) This excellent anti-war film based on the 1929 novel "Im Westen nichts Neues" by Erich Maria Remarque is currently available on Netflix. At two hours twenty eight minutes in length, it is an epic watch yet I must admit that I was gripped throughout it. Unusually, it considers World War One from a German viewpoint and from there it looks just as ugly, just as pointless and just as inhuman as it has variously been seen from the opposite angle. It mostly revolves around the last weeks of the war and focuses upon a group of school friends who have joined up with boyish notions of what being a soldier will be like. Their fantasies are quickly dashed as they enter a living hell of mud, blood, noise and confusion. What is it all for? Nobody seems to know. One of the school chums almost makes it to The Armistice  at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month of 1918.  He is  Paul Bäumer played by Felix Kamm...

This is the simple jug I bought from Sainsbury’s yesterday . It’s robust and pleasing and suits the daffodils which I’ve now filled it. Tulips will look good in it too.  I took the dogs to Colwyn Bay Promenade first thing and bought daffodils from a little florist in the town before meeting a friend for brunch.  I think brunch is the go to eating event popular with people now. I love it much more that a late dinner out , not that I’m invited out late much anymore .  I popped in Eirlys’ beef casserole, wrote up some college notes and that’s it for the day. A recent blood test showed I’m a bit anaemic so a crafty little snooze-Ette  is the order of the late afternoon  It’s cool , but I cover me and the dogs in a throw and soon all of us will be asleep on the trendy couch . Organic hot water bottles for each other I will light the fire later. from Going Gently https://ift.tt/OxKbZLV

 Faith  Rise up May Your strength Be my strength I prosper Because Of who You are Get up And praise For my joy Is not contingent On what I can’t control But on who I am in You Love you friends from R's rue https://ift.tt/Zho93DC