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Frank Kelly

Actor -Father-Husband-Musician Father Jack-Father ted John Smith Drink - feck- girls 1939-2016

Happy birthday

Happy birthday

Update 27 February

After Christmas, is a lean time for an expatriate English teacher here I was fortunate this year. I had a corporate class, that lasted until the beginning of February. It is almost March, and I have been filling my time with odds and ends. I have a class teaching the Gmat on saturday. Where I am forced to scrape and scan for materials. I had a tri weekly class where the student fled. I lost a class on Thursday due to a double booking. Something I am not pleased with Nor is it easy being married. When you are at home all day. I was annoyed by a mosquito last night. The internet has been cut I watched Skyfall-It was good, but the ending did not feel like bond -------------- I worry about my daughter. Who still cannot speak

Happy Birthday Bo

Many happy returns on my daughters 2nd birthday ---------------- I am worry so much about you my little beloved one

Inbetweeners 2

I have been rewatching the series  It makes me feel old ,the appreciation of the fact the series is almost 10 years old. I was at least thirty when I first saw this series. So twice the age of the leads. I remember those empty desperate days. Trying anything to do something cool Kudos to the producers for playing with the formula. They subvert the narrative by starting the credits as if this was a horror. We learn that Will, the series narrator is at University and very much unloved. Will and Simon have been tricked into attending a party in fancy dress. The inbetweeners though on the face of it , a British small screen answer to the teen gross out comedies -porkies-American pie-et al. Differs from its American cousins, the Inbeeners is firmly about class Will is told to piss off by the public school set, at his university.   Wills love rival bears a double barrelled name. -Actually common in the lowest orders of the Spanish speaking world. Oh and decidedly...

The Fifth wave

It is awful. I did not go to see this film in the best of moods. I was reluctant enough to go along and see Creed. Then the fuck up fairy came to visit I had to queue up multiple times and then kill an hour. We ended up in a packed cinema, sitting in the middle of the audience. With people ordering food over us While my bladder and bowels came close to bursting Okay so: There are spoilers here It's Twilight with Aliens meets the hunger games Stealing the dressed sets from the walking dead. The lead actress never has her dark roots grow out. The feisty fem soldier wears Black eye-shadow and the base doctor is in a tight blouse and blonde highlights Though civilization has collapsed. I spent most of the film trying to name. Lev Schrier .The man who should play Wolverine The plot twists are telegraphed by Western Union. I saw both coming The fact that the others - yeah get another post modern name. Would use child soldiers. This aspect had some promise. It was handled to cle...

In memoriam

Terry Wogan Broadcaster. Limerick's most famous son Unpaid Irish ambassador Alan Rickman Actor and old Actonian. Hans Gruber-Devalera-Snape. David Bowie Modern love Life on Mars Let's dance We could be heroes And finally Lord Lucky Lucan. Who was declared dead.

Well done the Denver Broncos

Denver beat the Carolina Panthers in the 50th Superbowl