Relief All Round

It looked like the sort of game, much like the last four, where we’ve done ok but ultimately created little and of course failed to hit the back of the net. Then helped by a sending off, a just one, Derby somehow furnish a 1-0 with a goal in the 85th minute. Relief all round.

The first other score I check it that of a Sol-less Notts County, who win too. Of course its been well documented that their multi-million pound signing walked out on them last week, one month into a five-year contract, after falling face down in reality during his début at glamorous Morecambe where County lost 2-1. It’s tough at the bottom Sol.

We stay in tonight, to fuel up on pasta and chocolate pudding before tomorrow’s Crossdale 10k.

Instead we watch Cold Comfort Farm on DVD. Can you tell that Daughter is out? Cold Comfort Farm was made in 1995 based on a book by Stella Gibbon from 1932. The book itself was a parody of the stories written by the likes of Ms Austen, Mr Dickens, Mr Hardy etc. The film adds to this by also being a bit of a send up of the period TV dramas.

Recently orphaned Flora Poste (Kate Beckinsale), always referred to as Robert Poste's daughter, has an allowance of only £156 per year and no interest in work, but rather than become a student she moves in with some distant relatives, the Starkadders, whom she has never met. They reside at Cold Comfort Farm in a place called Howling, somewhere in Sussex, a place where the village pub is called ‘The Condemned Man’.



The farm is badly run, falling apart and home to a right bunch of characters (played by a star studded cast), who are all, without exception, totally backwards in their thinking, even for the 1930’s. The farm is also supposedly cursed and the family’s belief in the curse is self-fulfilling and reflected in their outlook on life. Even the family’s cows are called Aimless, Feckless, Graceless, and Pointless.

The whole little empire is presided over by Aunt Ada Doom, who is supposedly quite mad after having seeing ‘something nasty in the woodshed’. Yes, it’s a comedy.

Our heroine, Flora sets about trying to change everything for the better, simply by being positive and modern in her outlook. She starts by modernising their dish washing facilities, by attempting to replace the much loved 'twig' with a hand mop and then takes it from there. Sorting out their love lives and job prospects along the way.



Very good and I imagine it is one of those films where you pick up more from it each time you watch.