Advantages: They can come and go as they please, unless you deem otherwise! Disadvantages: Not much use if your cat refuses to wear a collar
I got my first kitten in May 1997. Lovely fluffy black bundle of joy, with white socks, white bib, white cheeks and large voluptuous white whiskers. At the time I lived in a three storey maisonette without a garden. Normally I would not have got a cat without a garden but the plan was to move within six months or so, to a house with a garden. However, as such plans go, it turned into nearly two years by the time we eventually moved.
So we now had a two and a half year old cat who rarely went out side other than if it was sunny and the front door was open and hubby was working on the car just outside. And it was a big scary world. And to top it off her inconsiderate owners moved somewhere strange and unfamiliar and to add insult to injury made her travel a whole half a mile in those big scary noisy things with wheels!
So first ...
Advantages: Compelling enough crime story Disadvantages: Not a patch on the Rebus stories
Doors Open - Ian Rankin
Before I talk about the book ?Doors Open? written by Ian Rankin let me tell you a little story of my own.
Many years ago I was the chief cashier in a branch of a high street bank. It was a small branch with a low foot flow of customers. However, it was in the very wealthy Belgravia area of London so what customers we did have were of the well heeled variety, premiership footballers and senior politicians were regulars. Even if they weren?t famous many of our customers were titled and came from famous families. These customers requested a lot of cash over the counter so we would hold rather more in our safe than similar sized branches elsewhere. Most weeks this would be around two to three hundred thousand pounds, at busy times it could reach perhaps three quarters of a million pounds.
The money was held ...
Advantages: Easy To Watch Disadvantages: Nothing Fantastic
Sliding Doors is a film which brings to the screens the question ?what if?? it was released in 1998 and is still managing to bring in plenty of viewers due to its unique story and layout which has been copied, but not as successfully, since.
What?s it all about?
The movie is a romance story about Helen, the film follows her in her struggles through her life, work and especially her love life. The starting and main point of the film is at the beginning, she is catching a train which turns out to be a major pinpoint of her life.
The film is then split into two stories, one in which follows on from her catching the train, and one of which follows on from her missing the train. This small event in Helen?s life changes everything and the consequences of either one is flashed back to throughout the film, and she experiences ...
