A Knight's Tale

Rating:	★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Action & Adventure

A fun and slightly silly historical action/rom-com film. A low born squire pretends to be a knight so he can compete in the jousting. He fancies a noble lady with eccentric dress sense. Nasty Rufus Sewel is out to get him. It's not meant to be serious history, just fun. Some good music too.

It's in my DVD collection. If you want to borrow it I suggest joining DVD Lender and speak to me about linking to my library.

Selfbuild

March 2003

Our new house

Vive La Revolution

Rating:	★★★★
Category:	Books
Genre:	History
Author:	Mark Steel

I'm on a bit of a history kick at the moment, trying to catch up on various parts. For some reason I'm mostly into the 17th and 18th centuries just now.

I know Mr Steel from his radio and TV lectures on various famous people. He takes a humourous, but historically accurate view on things.

This book is obviously about the French revolution. It covers the whole history and characters. He can be flippant at times, but it's a fairly easy read. There is a lot to take in and I found myself getting confused by the various factions at time, but then it was a confusing time. Tragic too.

If all history was written this way, more people would read it. It was certain more fun than Gleick's Isaac Newton.

One thing it has done is to put me off royalty even more than I was before.

Shrek 2

Rating:	★★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Animation

Great fun film. Enough fun for the kids and lots of sight gags for the grown-ups. I lost count of the movie references. The detail is stunning. The new cast are good apart from Jonathon Ross who sounds totally wrong as the ugle sister. Jennifer Saunders does a great job. Not sure if they can sustain the standard for 3 and 4.

It's in my DVD library now for friends to borrow

So I joined Multiply

I thought I'd have a play with this site. Seems promising with 1GB of storage for photos and messages. If I can get others to join then we can use it to view each others' content, although you can restrict who sees it. I'll keep my proper web site for my experiments