Just Clowning.

Our oldest grandson does drama at school and each term they put on a performance at school. A few weeks ago we arranged to attend.

Its after school but on school premises and starting at 6.30 pm. There are four classes and all I knew was that his class was not the first one.

The school took the opportunity to put on a sausage sizzler as a fund raiser. I don't like sausages that much but do like the sausage sizzle so that was dinner.

Had to sit through two performances before Jordan's but they were entertaining. All members of the class were involved and they were all different. The costuming was good and quite funny.

Finally Jordan's group was on and it was bizarre to see our grandson burst out of a box in a purple curly wig and purple tight.

In all groups there were some acrobatics, juggling, plate twirling and magic. For kids to get up and preform a piece that they had only worked on for a maximum of a term was really good to see. All were in year ten so fifteen to sixteen years of age with quite a difference in size as well.

Woman in Gold

We haven't been to the movies for awhile and there is a couple of good ones on at the moment. I particularly wanted to see Spy as it has two of my fav actors Jason Stratton and Melissa McCarthy I think her name is, she was in Bridesmaids. Hadn't checked the times that they were on until we were having our morning coffee.

Oops, movie started at 10.45 am and it was already 10.32 am, not going to make that, next time was 1.20pm. Yep, that's a better time as we had things to do, washing in the machine to hang out etc. Then Warren informs me that Woman in Gold is showing at 11 am. We tossed a coin, heads for 11 am or tails for Spy at 1.20 pm, you can guess what flipped up.

Helen Mirren is also one of the actresses that I admire so it was no great drama to see that one and we can go and see Spy next week. Tuesday is the cheap day and my day off so works out well.

What a top movie and I didn't realise until after that it was based on a true story. There were flash backs to the second world war in amongst the movie and some of the buildings in Austria were just magnificent, made me want to go and visit just to see the imposing apartment blocks although as told in the story they are office space now.

Of course in between the drama there was the age old joke between Australia and Austria and it went like this: the lawyer was lodging a complaint in America against the Austria Government and the middle aged clerk remarked Oh Austria, my daughter would like to go there, she has always wanted to see kangaroos! bomp bong!

I did wonder if that statement was only in the Aussie version as it could easily be taken out.