Let’s get this straight. Batman Begins is a formulaic film with no shades of grey. Characters are either totally good, or really really bad. There’s a love interest in the form of the lovely Katie Holmes, a car chase, a monorail and a cute child who stands there for a while looking scared. And martial arts. And the obvious sequel set-ups. It’s Hollywood!
However, Batman Begins is still a great film. Not deep, but well made, well directed, well acted blockbuster that continues the good run of comic-book inspired films we’ve had recently, most notable Spiderman. It’s just great fun! And believe me, I saw Batman and Robin.
Much better than War of the Worlds plot-wise too. Go see.
Just for the record – just finished Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince. Still no spoilers allowed on this site though, for the moment. 
It’s odd – I went away for a week after complaining that “nothing much was happening” news wise to write about. That week, the G8 summit hugely increased aid to Africa, London won the Olympic bid beating favourites Paris, and Britain was rocked by the first suicide bombings ever on its soil.
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Katie had her party in the park thing yesterday, and then had loads and loads and loads of friends to stay the night. Most interesting moment was over pizza, where one of them asked “Who’s going to get liposuction when they’re older?” I actually spat out my drink laughing – they’re ten!
Today, along with making my way through Harry Potter (done 20 chapters at time of writing) I went to McDonald’s for the first time in ages. And tried to negate the health downsides by doing walking the 2-mile route home afterwards. So I think I’m fine! I also saw my Grandparents for tea… so I’m completely and utterly stuffed full of food.
And tomorrow (this post is very neatly structured isn’t it? Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow…) is Katie’s actual birthday day. Happy 10th Birthday, and thank god too for the end of the Self’s summer run of birthdays 
Edward Heath was clearly someone who had to content with a lot as Prime Minister in an era where the unions were not playing the role that they should do. He was someone who supported the welfare state, and although I don’t know a great deal about him, I was touched by this quote from the end of the BBC News obituary:
“What wounded him most was the sight of the party he loved rejecting the things he had believed in for a lifetime.”
For a party that desperately needs to get over Thatcher, there’s a lesson there.
Helen on It’s (waiting) time.: “Fabulous news, congratulations to you both! X” Jun 8, 21:51
