Friday, 18 July 2008

All work no play

I have been a very bad blogger recently, and have been getting behind with reading blogs too. My job is taking over my life, which isn't great. I have been working long days, writing lots which puts me off writing for fun, and travelling around the country too. Anyway, I got a draft report I have been slaving over (around 250 pages at the moment) sent off today, so I can relax a little this weekend.

I'd love to go to the cinema, if only it wasn't so expensive. There are so many films I want to see: Wall-E this week, and The Dark Knight when it comes out next week too. There are other films I would like to see too, but they wouldn't be of interest to Veggie Hubby. Why is it so expensive to go to the cinema during peak times? £7.20 per adult seems like such a rip-off. You can buy DVDs for less than that. I prefer going off-peak/on Orange Wednesdays when possible. In a way, I prefer watching films at home as you don't get the distraction of annoying noisy people talking loudly and eating popcorn. It's probably worse at the moment with the school holidays starting, they will be packed with annoying teenagers. Perhaps this is just cognitive dissonance as I don't want to spend that kind of money seeing a movie.

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  1. I feel the same about the cinema!

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  2. Congratulations on finishing the draft. As for films, I liked the Amazon hire-DVDs-by-post, for 5 GBP per month. Shame they don't post to France 8-(

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  3. Jules - glad you agree. I bought some DVDs today instead.

    Frankofile - Amazon have now been taken over by Lovefilm. I don't think this is a good thing.

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