Its has been very busy here lately – and by busy, I think I defined it the other day – it means activity outside of our house.
A few weeks ago was the premiere of the movie, Australia. Nomi joined some friends in dressing up in a competition and won four tickets (no photo of that at the moment). Pete was given one of those tickets so off he went to the Premiere Showing here in town. We have an open air theatre here in town, so the atmosphere was set with horses racing past, whips cracking, dust flying! Then as they sat watching the movie a thundercloud gathered overhead. Just what you need! But the storm was averted and everyone enjoyed the night.
photo: ABC TVHere’s Pete doing the social thing before the showing
man on the right is the Fedral Opposition Leader, Malcolm Turnbull
and man on the left is David Newry, who was the language consultant on the movie.
My take on the movie – I walked away feeling like I had watched a feel-good movie. It wasn’t deep, it wasn’t powerful, as Pete puts it – it was just a good yarn. I enjoyed seeing it with a crowd. It was nice to share the jokes, the Australian attitudes with other people, to be involved with a whole theatre having a laugh! We were both concerned about the aboriginal spirituality and how it was elevated to be a good thing. Chrisitians have to be very aware that the spirit world that led these people was not the Holy Spirit. It had a political story to tell, which in my opinion, is only half the story. A lot of the movie was filmed around here so the scenery is special to the locals and we picked up things that no-one else will. I wonder if that is how people usually feel after a movie is made in their home town! But I thoroughly enjoyed my night out.
Mango Season this year was a little weird; the mangoes came on real slow, not a lot of them, some trees did well, some trees produced nothing. Here is our biggest mango for the year.
This tree used to look so big, with our little kids standing under it! Now it looks like a little tree!
