Scattered Strawberry Summer

If you know why I've got these particular films and you can correctly guess what my mobile's ringtone is, we should be friends. or I could just follow your blog

Panasonic Lumix G 20mm / F1.7 ASPH. pancake lens

I will get this for myself eventually, I'm just waiting for a good deal!.. Christmas deals where are you?....






Jean-Luc Goddard film collection.


I love men watches 




The Beatles remastered box set



so guys..Christmas is coming and my birthday is soon after

It feels like winter has come. Me and J. went out to a small park that we discovered recently, it was rather sunny but it was very chilly so we didn't spend much time there and headed to her place to have some coffee & warm up those frozen hands ( I didn't think of taking gloves with me just yet, didn't expect it to be that cold).

It got rather cold in our place too since it's old and has no insulation whatsoever, I've started winter-proofing our flat. I bought a draught excluder for the gap that we have under the main door, storm guard "double glazing"  film for our old single-glazing windows, which I have run out of! I really hope it will work..

I'm dreaming of winning the lottery  or making an amazing career and retire before I'm thirty and move somewhere warm, as it's not very likely, I'm buying some more film for our windows tomorrow after work.

In other news, I've received my first local & organic vegetable box (I know, so hipster), which I hope will make me eat more vegetables and try new recipes as I'm bound to get vegetables that I don't normally eat, e.g. sprouts. In this week's box I've got various lettuces, cabbage, potatoes, a bunch of carrots, a bag of sprouts, a couple of onions,leeks and some greens which I don't even recognise... yeah!  


off to cook dinner...

things you find on internet...

I thought I'll give Elementary a chance despite the surrounding controversy. Of course I'm biased,I love BBC  Sherlock, it's a masterpiece (all hail Mofftiss), it's without a doubt my favourite show ever.

 My verdict based on 1.5 episode (damn my internet connection) : it's not awful but it isn't brilliant either. What bothers me the most is that it seems they have no  knowledge of the original Sherlock Holmes books, the first clue is in the title: based on the famous  "Elementary , my Dear Watson!, a phrase that has never been uttered by Sherlock.  The show doesn't feel very "Sherlocky", it's  just like any other crime drama where the main character just happens to be named Sherlock Holmes. Absolutely no chemistry between Sherlock and Joanne, if Joanne wasn't on the show, I would hardly notice she's missing, doesn't seem to contribute much to the show. in my opinion.

There is no Mrs Hudson or Lestrade. Not sure if Mycroft has been on the screen (I do love Mark Gatiss in BBC's version) as I haven't seen all the available episodes.

The  script is quite boring & dry, cinematography, what cinematography? Deductions not explained, although BBC Sherlock aren't always fully explained, but  you can see Sherlock's thought process and how he  comes up with his conclusions, in the Elementary, however, it seems Sherlock knows  the answers because it's says so in the script. The deductions that ARE explained are quite..lame. You don't need to be Sherlock to come up with that!

Johnny Lee Miller isn't bad at all,I loved him as a creature in Frankenstein, but I don't think his Sherlock is that interesting to be honest but it might get better in the later episodes. but I'm sorry to say I'm not going to watch them.

All right, if you like cop/crime drama,I think it's more than adequate, but if you are more into Sherlock,  you'd be better off watching House as it's a lot more Sherlocky than Elementary.

If you want to read a proper review, click here

to be  honest, taking pictures of this was not my thing at all, maybe because I didn't have any creative control over it and couldn't "direct" the shots if you know what I mean, just wasn't enough time for it, it was a bit rushed and the lighting was poor inside the church but the mother, my dear friend, was very happy.

The company I work for held Team Challenge today which is part of "giving something back to community" & corporate social responsibility policy. We did a makeover to a  charity  funded centre for  mentally challenged people. All South East region staff (over 50) have contributed by sourcing the materials needed and  painting, glossing, varnishing and scrubbing the floors all day today. Most of the things that we used today for this makeover were donated by various companies and Tesco  provided us  with food. Local MP   showed up just to see how we were doing.