Yesterday was my first day back at work after five weeks! I only work on Saturdays because of school during the week and I'd had glandular fever for two weeks and then booked three Saturdays off for Christmas as holiday. So it's not all bad, I'm not a lazy shit! Anyway, work was actually really nice. I am a receptionist in a hotel and we usually get some grumpy people grumping at us unfairly because there's no one else to grump at! However, yesterday morning was so quiet with a bit of an increase in hype in the middle of the day and then quiet again but every single guest that checked in was lovely and it was just an enjoyable day! I then met my friends for dinner. We went to Ask which was nice, I haven't been there in about a thousand years! It's completely the opposite to Pizza Express in an Italian restaurant because it does quite a few veggie pasta options and only one veggie pizza where as Pizza Express does NO veggie pasta options and lots of veggie pizza options! I suppose the clue is in the name but I mean come on, no veggie pasta options? That's practically medieval. They're losing customers and it's silly and pointless! Oh yeah, I don't know if I've mentioned that I'm a vegetarian. Well, yes, I am and I always have been and I really like being one. It's a tad healthier, I don't feel guilty and I've never tasted meat so no I don't feel I'm missing anything. I get all my protein from meat substitutes, I am perfectly healthy in that aspect and the only thing perhaps bartering my health is my love for crap food like apple pies, cakes, chocolate and crisps which is nothing to do with vegetarianism haha. If a cow killed my family, no, I would not eat it. Yes, I have been asked this question before. Firstly, a cow would not kill my family, secondly, why would my first instinct be to eat it when I'd be grieving? and thirdly, if a murderer killed your family, would you eat them? So yes, I enjoyed Ask immensely. It is also ridiculously easy for seventeen year olds to order wine with their meals in restaurants if they act confident and smile. Just saying! Okay, here's the highlight of my blog:
After eating, we went to see The King's Speech at the Odeon. It was beautiful! That sounds very exaggerated but my English teacher burst into our classroom on Wednesday morning - that was weird, I just got distracted and looked up where to get the best coffee in Canterbury and I can't remember why I was inclined to do so; the answer was either Cafe St Pierre or Cafe Cultura if you wanted to know - and gushed about what an amazingly moving film it was with incredible acting. She was absolutely right! It was fantastic. I was incredibly, incredibly impressed by Colin Firth who was playing King George the Sixth or Bertie as he was also known. He must have done so much research and gained extortionate amounts of background knowledge about stammers before he could play that part. It must have been so hard to act as a man with a stammer and have to pretend you had to learn to speak properly when you already could and be able to show the progress. I was just so impressed! I can't imagine doing that as an actor, I'd love to be able to try. Helena Bonham-Carter as his wife was beautiful in her role as always with her exquisite posh voice. She looked stunning as well! It's been a long time since she's played a normal character without being evil and a bit mad looking. She just looked like a genuine Queen! Stunning. The man playing the speech therapist, Lionel, I hadn't actually ever seen before. I don't actually think it would've been a very hard role to play but he did it so well! It was such a poignant relationship between him and Bertie and I just loved it. The film itself is very quiet. There's no action; it's simply a man learning to overcome his speech impediment. It was slow in places and many, many people would get bored but I LOVE films like that. It's similar in style to The Girl With A Pearl Earring (coincedentally also featuring Colin Firth!) but with a lot more speech because obviously, that was one of the main features. There were also elements of humour, I adored the scene when Bertie learned he didn't stammer when he swore so he and the speech therapist were just shouting every single swear word under the sun, it was HILARIOUS. Rhiannon and I were practically weeing ourselves! A very sweet little thing about the film was the girl who plays Karen in Outnumbered as a young Princess Margaret, she was just so cute with her little posh voice. Anyway, there are many other things I could say but I need to get ready to go out! Have a lovely day.
Sally x
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