William and Kate's Wedding a la Dance!

Borrowed from the Facebook Page of Ed Saiedi, a former tenant of Arta and Kelvin's:




That is as small as it gets.  Here is the link to Youtube if you want to see it there:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kav0FEhtLug&feature=player_embedded

Nanny McPhee and The Big Bang (Movie II)

For all of you with kids you may be going to his movie in the next few weeks.  Staring Emma Thompson, Colin Firth and several child stars, the first movie was entertaining.  The idea that a nanny becomes more beautiful with every good choice that each child makes bothered me, as it reinforces the historical stereotype that beauty is better than any other look, but it a kid's film.  Why not suck them into this belief early.  But I digress.....

The important bit is that everyone who visited Greg in London will recognize portions of the movie that were shot in various locations.  One day when I left Greg's flat during the summer of 2009, I saw a crew setting up a film shoot in the early AM.  A visiting friend of mine and I were headed out for a day of activities and turned left onto Regent Street heading towards the Regent Park Station, when we saw various vans, large wires, cameras and a caterer organizing on the North West side of the street (just south of Park Crescent).  Greg had mentioned that many film crews came to film in this historic part of London so we briefly stopped to watch the goings on.  From our side of the street we could see an old, old motorcycle and side car with three people in long robes and costumes sitting atop.  There was no one available to speak with so we watched for a few minutes and continued on our way.

After a full day of touring, we returned to see the remnants of the days work being packed into large, white moving trucks.  I happened to ask one of the people on the set what was being filmed and he said, "Nanny McPhee part two".  If I had known it was Emma Thompson on the motorcycle I would have waited.  And do you know how long I have had a crush on Colin Frith (a.k.a. Mr. Darcy the BBC version)?  Missed my brush with fame there.

(Taken from Wikipedia.org.)

If you have a chance to see the movie, or are taking your kids, when you get to the part of the film with the old tall stone terraced houses with old wood doors, when the motorcycle with side car is in the film, know that you have probably walked that street before.  Regent Street.  Greg and our old neighbourhood.

Tonia

Censored Pictures

This is the most photographically acceptible of all of the picture taking I did yesterday.

Notice the terrible injury to Wyona's toe on the escalator has been offset by the beauty of the daisy collected at the Hair concert.

The toe has been iced for a full 12 hours before taking this picture.

This second picture represents a hint as to what people need for Christmas. While I was arranging Wyona's feet for the photo shoot, Glen wondered if anyone would feel sorry for him, because of the kind of socks he has to wear. The LaRue fees are very high this year.

I only feel admiration for someone who is so thrifty as to use up the whole bottom of a sock before he throws that pair out.

Janet, on the other hand, rose the occassion and bought him new socks.

I am adding this picture so that you can get the relative swelling that has gone on with the injured foot, by comparing it to the good foot.

O.K.

This is difficult to describe because the good foot used to be the bad foot, but now it is the good foot in comparison to the foot that used to be the good foot, but is now the bad foot.