Seen on Symi – and other things
Happy first of the month!
That moment when someone gets the timing just right. One of our godsons wanted to watch our copy of Pitch Perfect 2 and was half way through it when the things refused to play any more. We ordered him a copy for his name day (including Pitch Perfect 1) but it wasn’t going to arrive in time. We told him he had a present and it was on its way, and that was fine. Yesterday it arrived at the house and I opened the box from Amazon to check; yes, there it was. Ten minutes later the doorbell rang and his brother turned up out of the blue asking if they could borrow the film again. We said no, because it wasn’t working… but here, he can have his own copy on DVD. A very smiley face left the house in a hurry bearing good news and a double DVD to his brother.
If you haven’t seen the film, it has nothing to do with Greece but it has a lot to do with a capella singing. Here’s the Amazon description and link.
Double bill of musical teen comedies following the fortunes of an all-girl a cappella singing group. In ‘Pitch Perfect’ (2012), Anna Kendrick stars as Beca, a freshman who is persuaded to join The Bellas, her university’s all-female singing group. Raising their energy and expanding their repertoire, The Bellas have soon taken their music to a whole new level, culminating in a sing-off against their male counterparts in a campus-wide competition. In ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ (2015) The Barden Bellas enter an international singing competition that a group from the US have yet to win. Can they impress the judges enough to beat their competitors?
It’s worth a look, honestly and teens old and young (from 13 to 80 I would say) will enjoy it. Click here.
Neil’s birthday present also arrived, at least the first part did. The second part is a dinner at Mythos with some friends on his birthday next week. [Note: must remember to book table.] Meanwhile here are a few things I’ve seen going on on Symi in the past few days:
Day boats arriving | Pleasure yachts coming and going | Three clouds | Blue sky | Sunrises | The man from the grocer’s shop dancing in the street as someone played a Middle Eastern drum rhythm | Returning visitors | A couple of menus | A couple of gin & tonics | The Alarm Cat being very noisy all morning for no apparent reason and not settling down until after three breakfasts, six trips to the bowl and a good look around every corner of the house | The piano keyboard | Some coal tits | some serins | other assorted birds | The typewriter keys.
And along with these pieces of no news are a few photos from the other day. Can’t stay long today, it’s the afternoon (Wednesday) and I am back at the piano again shortly for another singing rehearsal (not me).
