The Women
The Innocents
Laura
The Enchanted Cottage
Ma and Pa Kettle (all)
The Uninvited
Laurel and Hardy (all)
The Three Stooges (all)
The road To (all)
The Thin Man series (most)
The Egg and I
Mutiny On The Bounty
Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Bad seed
Them
Yankee Doodle Dandy
White heat
Rebecca
Wuthering hts
Little Women
Goodbye Mr Chips
Oh I can't remember them all most on Tape ...just talking about the old black and whites I think....what favourites everyone?
I love to cry ...laugh...or be terrified while watching Movies
It's beginning to look like the tropics,5,wintering in!
How about the topper series,just not a ghost!!!!
Topper was great. Don't like gory horror stuff, but love a good mystery, adventure, western, sci fi. And I like the good guys to win.
There is more gory stuff on the news than in horror flicks...I have books explaining about the stuff used for fake blood etc...I have read to and showed the pictures to the grandchildren so they will understand "special effects" ...I don't want them to be afraid of movies.....but I am afraid of the news sometimes....now there is "real" horror. :)
Oh yes Don....Topper and Topper Returns...great, funny flicks! Glad you jumped in cuz we are all OT yet one more time!! (Ain't it fun!). Love Hitchcock! Just about anything by Frank Capra....all the Tracy/Hepburns. Probably my absolute favorite movie is To Have and Have Not..."Was you ever stung by a dead bee?"
Chrissy, it's body parts I can't stand - and scenes of torture, etc. Actually, when my mom and sister would watch Alice in Wonderland, I would turn my back to the TV and do the ironing! Never did figure out why it bothered me, but I still don't like it.
Hitchcock is the best!
Shari, I can't remember, what was Slim's answer? No, have you? I forget things like that, so I can enjoy them again!
The movies based on "real" horror upset me...but all in all it is like my reading and music....if it is good I love it.... no matter what it is about....body parts are usually found in shock horror b grade flicks (though they have their place too like "Them" some of these go on to be classic cult thingys......love send ups like "The Lost Boys" a spoof vampire..great music too! a big favourite)....but I have a weird sense of humour because I remember laughing my head off in a dark comedy that was based on a veg diner that served human flesh disguised as tofu....it was the most popular diner in town until one night the blender must have been plaing up and one of the veggie "fish fingers" (I think you call them fish sticks) had a ring and a long painted fingernail on it!....I know it is awful of me but I thought that was one of the funniest things I have ever seen....Are we still friends ha ha ha....I think we had better go back to the garden.....
How is it going TM getting there?
Okay, back to the garden....here's something you don't see everyday.....I think this orchid was originnally attached to this tree with wire...but it has long since grown right into the tree....and its huge!
what a land of awe...
Chrissy - once winter sets in for good in the States, you know you and I will have to post the occasional green and bloomin' to help remind the non-islanders of what flowers look like...we'll get Jenny and Carol to help.....so don't post all your pictures now....save some back for little winter treats to the land -locked.
True. What I am looking at right now will all be a mound of brown and I will be fretting over what will make it and what won't.
Still friends, Chrissy. I've laughed and cringed at some weird stuff, too. Still don't understand about Alice, though.
Now, that orchid is stupendous. I have a Mexican orchid I would love to hang in a tree like that, but I think it needs more cover than what I can give it right now.
In 1956, long before Nevil Shute’s story about women prisoners of war who suffered in a Japanese prison camp was made into a television mini-series in Australia it was adapted into a British film. Virginia McKenna gives an unforgettable performance as the young woman who falls in love with an Australian soldier (Peter Finch) but is separated from him in the most heart-rending circumstances. Jack Lee’s direction of this moving saga of courage and endurance against all odds is very fine, and the supporting cast of most female actors, including Marie Lohr, Jean Anderson and Maureen Swanson, is excellent.
A review of this movie there was also a mini series made here in oz starring Brian Browne and Helen Morse....which was very good too ..../oh and by the way...we call Alice Springs "Alice."
Chrissy, you'll think I'm daft. Weird + the other Alice - I was referring to my comment about being frightened of Alice in Wonderland. I have never understood what creeped me out about that movie. Sorry, my brain goes off on tangents sometimes.
Oh, thank goodness, finally someone who can sympathize!
When I read Mischener's "Hawaiia" I cried when I finished it. Wanted it to go on forever.
His first book and the best. Later years....his assistants wrote most of them under his name and it was obvious. Also loved "Centennial"....read that. When it was finished we went to Denver and I was reading "Thornbirds"....so there I was finally in Colorado while mentally in Australia.
Hey where is Don? Exhausted after trying to get everything into the GH. Are you Ok, Don?
The book The Thorn Birds was written by a woman ...it was so very real.
Mitchener is one of my favourite writers ...read most of his stuff...the movie Hawaiia was so sad and very real too.
Did you know half of the Australian Aboriginals were killed within the first twenty years of settlement by Smallpox?....no one knows how it got here because no one who came in on the ships had any signs of it.....but that is what happened to the Islanders too.
Hi there TM how are you travelling mate?
Hope he didn't overdo! That was a lot of work! Maybe he's catching a snooze to re-energize.
Two OZ themed movies I loved were The Earthling, with William Holden (his next to last movie) and Ricky Schroder; and Traveling North with Leo McKern and Julia Blake. Both filled with incredible scenery and great acting.
K - I think Lewis Carroll would probably understand....AinW is filled with all kinds of mind games, and I think Disney made sure they made it into the animated movie - at least some of them did. You were just astute enough to get them!
I never was one of Michner's fans, although I did enjoy Chesapeake. He was just a bit too wordy and pendantic for me...guess I'm not patient enough, because I know so many people who love his stuff. Guess I want my fact to be fact and my fiction to be fiction and not a combination...oh heck, I don't know.
Grimm fairy tales were pretty grim too....why we thought they we ok for children I don't know....I stuck to The Cat In The Hat....with his green eggs and ham....stuff like that....lots of poems and fairy tales had nasty hidden (anti royal and anti political) meanings ...so hidden this way ....one did not lose ones head
.....chippa choppa chippa choppa last man's head head head ....off.
Lots of kids games too: Ring around the Rosey...London Bridge....and the jump rope one, can't remeber....about the robber's come knocking at the door.....and what's with the Cradle falling out of a tree??? Where the heck did that one come from...down will come cradle - baby and all? Never sang that to my kids, gave me nightmares!
smallpox is also what devastated the Native Americans.
I have heard in many places amongst the Pacific Islanders that they call Captain Cook, Captain Smallpox or Captain Syphillis....saying he brought both to the islands (which he didn't) and that he died of Syphilis (which he most certainly didn't)...both were actually brought from the French. And the poor American Indians...smallpox was deliberately introduced to them! Incredible what we can do to each other at times!
Wow haven't read this much in a long time!!!!!
Shari,it's those nasty yellow jackets that get me,and bad too I might add!!!
Chrissy thanks for the Logo of Adventures of paradise!!!!
Earthling was a great movie,Bill and ricky did a great job!!!!!
Spent all day getting the plastic over the tunnel greenhouse,put one of the bubble wrap solar pool covers on first then a 6 mil greenhouse over the bubble wrap to protect it,all this is suppose to give a better insulating factor to the greenhouse,then had to water everything very windy and warm today 90* still warm for the last week of September!
Have lots of things to dig up,hopefully next weekend I can spend on getting plants out of the ground.
Do you have any pictures of the latest GH, Don? I'm still trying to figure a way to have a lean-to or something for the many tropical pots I have. We have just enough freeze (actually only takes one) to kill them all. We would almost have to move out of the house in order to bring them in.
My gosh you guys make me feel so lucky for the weather I have! The changing seasons is nice, but I just don't think I would be able to do all that work to keep tropicals in non-tropical weather....incredible. Careful of those stingers my friend!
Christi - surely yours aren't just from this year's growth! What did you do last winter?
Not just this year....but they have grown a lot and I have added a lot. In the past I have put them in every room......I have two grandson boarders this year that are crammed wall to wall in the extra bedrooms. Some I have put in the garage before but it wears me out just dragging them back and forth on pretty days to get enough light and water. Some would take the space of a recliner.
Oh my! That is true dedication to tropicals! And I whine about having to go all the way around the fence to water cuz of the cement repairs! You guys take my breath away!
Rather off topic, but has anybody heard of putting a fabric softner sheet in your belt loop to ward off wasps, bees, mosquitos, etc.? I did try it, but as we don't have too many flying nasties, mine was not a good test....Would be interested in anyone else trying it to see how it works.
Aloha!
Yes, I've used them and it seemed to work. When my relatives in Oregon have their outdoor get-togethers, they hang them around the trees and swear by the results. We have those little biting gnats, noseeums, flies, whatever at certain times of the day and they go after me like crazy.
Great! I'll give that a try! Thanks for the tip Jenny!
Those yellow jackets ...do you mean wasps?....ooooooh that makes my eyes water just thinking about the pain........poor thing....there is not much to protect against them....there are other things that protect against bugs in general but the wasps....I don't know about them....but keep some lavender oil handy it helps.
The Avon skin so soft bath oil protects against most things....it is used in the tropics to protect people against mozzies.
Well, until they get used to it anyway.