My Church has a thing, on Maundy Thursday each year we do our own reenactment of the last supper, sure Jesus didn't have roast potatoes but we act it out according to what the first 3 gospels and Paul said, including the passover meal. Since attending this Church I have loved this tradition, its a great lamb roast and its lovely to share a meal at Church.
Unfortunately this year, the man cast as Jesus only had a baby a few weeks ago, as well as having a toddler and appeared to forget about his commitment for tonight, we waited and delayed, but eventually had to start so the dinner wasn't ruined. There were two choices for his replacement, the boy who played Judas last year or a 16 year old who is not big on the whole church thing, but came along to the meal with his mum, I think more than anything it was a big responsibility for him, luckily he got us out of a sticky situation.
Today has been more than busy, I also went to a funeral, I did not know the man well, but my dad, who was leading the service did and it broke my heart when I heard his voice crack mid talking trying to hold back the tears, he did well however and it was a beautiful service.
This weekend is Easter weekend, the most important few days in the Christian year, a time for reflection and thanks. I am not one to impose my faith, but I can't tell you how beautiful I find the idea that Jesus died for our sins.
JT xxx
Thursday, 21 April 2011
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Sing You Home
I will start by explaining I am a mad Jodi Picoult fan, I had always been interested in her books due to their monopolising of the charity shop book shelves but didn't decide to try one until I heard My Sister's Keeper was being made into a movie. So off I trotted to cancer research to bag myself a copy and I LOVED it, it was gripping although slightly long (something now I cherish and wish they were all 500 pages plus). I was then on holiday, staying with friends when I found out I was staying with a fellow enthusiast, we decided to go see it and then get some dinner, we spent the whole of dinner panning the movie, how much we hated how it had been ruined. More recently I saw the movie again and I enjoyed it, but the ending changing did upset me, and I still hate WB for this.
From there it became a challenge to read them all, I now only have 3 I haven't read, it would just be one but her books seem to be very in moment and so it is proving difficult to find them in the charity shops, even my trusted Oxfam Books in Headingley which takes far too much of my student loan. At first they'd take me a few weeks to manage them, now its a few days, if I get addicted to one I have to limit myself to 100 pages a day, book fanatic or not, I am officially sad.
So when I heard she was doing a talk, reading and book signing of her latest book Sing You Home I knew I had to go, I was so excited to hear about her new book and find out a bit more about her as an author(well more than wikipedia has told me). It was fantastic, the new book, struggling with religion and homosexuality in America sounds fascinating and I'm very upset I am hiding it until my holiday in Tenerife in June (exams must come first unfortunately). I skipped the book signing, in 24 degree heat I did not fancy waiting in a room full of hundreds of eager fans to get a signature, I had seen her, that was what mattered. The best part of the evening was most definitely when asked if she'd be willing to sell the film rights if any of her other books after the My Sister's Keeper fiasco and she said a happy yes, Sing You Home has already been sold and I am currently trying to track down the TV movies of the 3 that have been made them so far. she did go on to give a great story about the fiasco saying(not a direct quote):
"Selling the movie rights of one of your books is like giving a baby up for adoption, just like you cannot call up every day to check they fed the child breakfast you also can't turn up to the studio to check they're doing it right and then one day you might find out how they turned out, they may have become upstanding members of society, or they may have become a prostitute."
Having been promised she'd be informed if the ending would be changed she still doesn't know why it was, which is unfortunate, but it didn't make as much as expected, hopefully Sing You Home will be kept intact but you never do know with books turned into films.
JT xxx
From there it became a challenge to read them all, I now only have 3 I haven't read, it would just be one but her books seem to be very in moment and so it is proving difficult to find them in the charity shops, even my trusted Oxfam Books in Headingley which takes far too much of my student loan. At first they'd take me a few weeks to manage them, now its a few days, if I get addicted to one I have to limit myself to 100 pages a day, book fanatic or not, I am officially sad.
So when I heard she was doing a talk, reading and book signing of her latest book Sing You Home I knew I had to go, I was so excited to hear about her new book and find out a bit more about her as an author(well more than wikipedia has told me). It was fantastic, the new book, struggling with religion and homosexuality in America sounds fascinating and I'm very upset I am hiding it until my holiday in Tenerife in June (exams must come first unfortunately). I skipped the book signing, in 24 degree heat I did not fancy waiting in a room full of hundreds of eager fans to get a signature, I had seen her, that was what mattered. The best part of the evening was most definitely when asked if she'd be willing to sell the film rights if any of her other books after the My Sister's Keeper fiasco and she said a happy yes, Sing You Home has already been sold and I am currently trying to track down the TV movies of the 3 that have been made them so far. she did go on to give a great story about the fiasco saying(not a direct quote):
"Selling the movie rights of one of your books is like giving a baby up for adoption, just like you cannot call up every day to check they fed the child breakfast you also can't turn up to the studio to check they're doing it right and then one day you might find out how they turned out, they may have become upstanding members of society, or they may have become a prostitute."
Having been promised she'd be informed if the ending would be changed she still doesn't know why it was, which is unfortunate, but it didn't make as much as expected, hopefully Sing You Home will be kept intact but you never do know with books turned into films.
JT xxx
The First Post
Having written a few blogs before, for family or out of boredom I was worried that like the previous ones this will fall by the wayside when there's an episode of Grey's Anatomy that I just HAVE to watch or I want to go to bed at 8.30pm, however I still feel compelled to try again, what's the worst that can happen eh?
I am not promising that this will be full of interesting bits of information but I do hope it will be funny, because my life generally is, whether it's because of a mishap with an outfit or tripping and falling on my face there is always something to laugh at.
The next post will be about a book launch/signing I went to yesterday, but it's not all going to be on books, the next could easily be on why summer shoes always kill my feet (I hate living on a hill) or how Harry Redknapp has turned spurs around, it is not going to be a normal blog, with a theme or someones life spilled out but I hope it interests anybody some of the time.
Two things I do adore for future reference, if you had not already guessed are jelly and tea, I practically live off these two things. Right now I have a bowl of jelly to my left and a cup of tea to my right and let me tell you its bliss (lime jelly if you were wondering).
JT xxx
I am not promising that this will be full of interesting bits of information but I do hope it will be funny, because my life generally is, whether it's because of a mishap with an outfit or tripping and falling on my face there is always something to laugh at.
The next post will be about a book launch/signing I went to yesterday, but it's not all going to be on books, the next could easily be on why summer shoes always kill my feet (I hate living on a hill) or how Harry Redknapp has turned spurs around, it is not going to be a normal blog, with a theme or someones life spilled out but I hope it interests anybody some of the time.
Two things I do adore for future reference, if you had not already guessed are jelly and tea, I practically live off these two things. Right now I have a bowl of jelly to my left and a cup of tea to my right and let me tell you its bliss (lime jelly if you were wondering).
JT xxx
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