Hook up

We're fortunate to have two working blacksmiths within a few miles. On an errand to get a cracked garden fork welded this display of  hooks hot off the anvil caught my eye for a Thursday abstract.  I also liked the logo on the coke bags (extra) - spot the dog!

We're  fortunate too that our community (popn. 5000) has had a Film Society for many years but despite a superb programme of  award-winning but offbeat films, many of them foreign, it doesn't break even and there's a real possibility we may lose it. How to get bums on seats when the films include such as challenging material as tonight's Body and Soul, a Hungarian film featuring a love story set in a slaughterhouse?  Yes it was strong stuff and there were gruesome scenes  of blood and gore (if you eat meat that's the reality) but juxtaposed with the strung-up carcases was a tender romance between two damaged people - a world-weary manager with a withered arm and a fragile young  meat-inspector with autistic traits - who discover that they share the same nightly dream of being deer running free in a snowy forest.  It takes a while for them to hook up in the real world but as the story played out with a succession of intensely moving  scenes I was bowled over by the incredible cinematography, the superb acting and the gripping combination of brutality, delicacy and sensuality that the film encompasses.

 I couldn't recommend it too highly to anyone who'd welcome a break from Winston Churchill and Queen Victoria.