Home Alone

With His Lordship engaged in business elsewhere for the day, I had the freedom to wander hither and thither. Unfortunately the dire wet weather put pay to an excursion down the coast to North Berwick with my sketchbook and camera.

Instead I decided on the feel good factor of a cinema visit to see the film, Eddie the Eagle. I try not to go to the cinema just after lunch because while I am wide awake for the showing of the adverts, as soon as the film starts, the warmth and enveloping darkness sends me off to sleep and I miss the first 10minutes of the story.

However today as I battled the jumps with Eddie, I was wide awake but often with my hand over my eyes watching some of his falls, and at the end there was a lump in my throat seeing him achieve his goal of setting the new British Record at that time for the 90 metre ski jump. A wonderful example of perseverance against the odds.

It was a lovely feel good film, funny and inspiring in equal measure, just the thing for me on another day of rain, home alone.