Saturday, July 14th .....

Marilyn and I watched The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel yesterday and really enjoyed it.  The actors are familiar and people like Judy Dench and, especially, Bill Nighy have a magic presence. Of course, it was mildly racist and Indians could take offence at the stereotyping, but it was quite sympathetic too.

I mentioned the other day how much I enjoyed quotes and this movie was full of them.  I had to write them down.

“If I can’t pronounce it, I won’t eat it.”

"Let me through, my brother is a doctor."

“We have a saying in India: everything will be all right in the end.  And if everything is not all right, it is not yet the end.”

“It’s our 40^th wedding anniversary and we haven’t worked out to mark the occasion” “How about a minute’s silence.”

The rain continues in Tasmania and the ground is waterlogged.  The grass is not growing quickly but I would love a few days of sunshine to dry it out so I could mow it before it gets too thick.  I think back to last Spring when it was a metre tall and took days to cut down.  We have to avoid that at all cost.