Film Review and bits of dance

I came home from the South Manchester Writers' Group yesterday evening and watched "Lady Chatterley" on television. (French version, 2006) It was beautifully shot, taking us through the seasons as though we were there. You could smell the woods, feel the breeze and then the early summer sunshine. It took its time and cut from scenes when the scene had done its job. No perfectly finishing something off. The actors weren't Hollywood perfect, but charismatic in an understated french way. The dialogue was minimal and when there were full conversations, there were no frills. It was sensual without trying. Practical in the first love scenes, so that it developed each time the two main characters met. Thank you Channel 4. Beautiful film making.
I'm glad I didn't go to the pub so I caught this film.

Tonight, I'm going to watch and maybe join in some Eastern European dance at the Didsbury Arts Festival.
There's a dance show on at the Lowry though too - contemporary dance which looks good too....

I'm working on Leaving Coty today. It won't be finished for Christmas...well, not in publishable form.

Didsbury Arts Festival

Juba do Leao, Pegada, Islington Mill, 2009
On Sunday 20th of September Juba do Leao performed as part of Platform4 Festival in Picadilly Gardens, Manchester.
A warm, sunny day of amazing events. Please look up the website to see more. Outdoor events such as these are what the city centre is all about.

And from Sunday, 27th of September - Didsbury Arts Festival

Thank you to the people who turned up to La Tasca in Disbury last night. I really enjoyed the evening as it felt as if we could all become friends and have lots of things to move on to and discuss. You may not feel the same, but I felt I would love to discuss other books and films and snippets we've read or seen.
So, thanks too to the organisers of the Arts Festival. It shows up more and more how important these events are for bringing people together and opening up spaces for such discussions and sharing of interests. And locally because it is not only about what is under discussion, but about perhaps going into a venue that you may not have been in before, stepping out into a subject matter or art form you wouldn't naturally seek out, but because it is on your doorstep, you 'give it a go.'
These events open up new experiences for everyone involved.

So many thanks and I hope you enjoy the book and maybe write a few words about it...

Ruth

The summer - autumn

I feel as though I've been out of action forever! Over the summer we have had visitors from abroad, big family events, a few days here, there and back again - to the Lakes, the North Yorkshire moors, West Yorkshire moors and back home and out again.
And a lot has happened emotionally as well. We've all been tested in the household. I've learnt I have to say 'No' when I don't want to say 'Yes.' Sounds simple probably for many of you, but I've hardened up this summer. I'm not going to put up with rubbish anymore.
So that's a good thing that's come out of August.

And so I've not been around to work much so feeling a strong need to write at length again rather than in snatches. Leaving Coty is coming on well. It seems natural to be back with Tessa and Co.

Erosion is improving with this latest edit. Clarifying and focusing. Must keep on top of that.

One thing else that has cropped up, as I'm not writing by numbers and ticking those set boxes that many people have come to rely on and that makes very safe and to me, boring literature, not even literature, books, I'm beginning to feel sad that the reader is being given more and more then same kind of thing. Where is the choice? I don't want to read the same format over and over or even the same subject matter. I want variety. I'm feeling frustrated. There is variety of sorts, just feels that the band wagon is rolling the same as it always has, whatever starts it rolling. I'd like to ride bare back once in a while.