I do believe in fairies!

Just watched Peter Pan with the Fox and was very pleasantly surprised. Forget the Disney animation, this is the real deal ... the script is flawless as is the acting. Rather intelligently every actor in the film except Peter (and sort of Tinkerbell) has an English accent, Peter is American which only serves to heighten the sense of other-worldliness. I heartily recommend this film to everyone, it didn't do anywhere near as well at the box office as it deserved to ... rush out and buy it now!

Language Timothy!

I have just read a recent entry by smokingboot regarding language and I find myself left with a single, rather unsettling, thought.

Why is it that I understand this language far better than I can articulate it? Don't get me wrong, I'm not exhibiting false modesty here, I can craft a verse reasonably well when I put my mind to it. But when I look at posts like smokingboot's I cannot help but marvel at the apparently effortless ability to craft this beautiful language into something rather wonderful. If I want to make something beatiful I need to work at it which, I think, sometimes gets in the way of what I'm trying to convey. I experience feelings like this with so many of the people whose LJs I read, not quite envy but a wish that I was as able to write English as well as I can read it ... to convey the feelings of wonder I feel as every day unfolds before me without it appearing to be from the BBC. Ah well, at the end of he day I suppose we must play the hand that fate has dealt us (shamelessly nicked from Kipling that) and be content.

More often than not, I am.