Ice Age 2: The Letdown
Paula and I went to see Ice Age 2: The Meltdown tonight. I really enjoyed the first film: it had great one-liners and some really funny visual gags, but it was also quite touching. Unfortunately, the sequel is quite a letdown, having a very thin and predictable plot, a weak script and annoying new characters. The Scrat sequences are funny, but there are so many this time around that even they start to wear thin.
Maybe worth going to see if you’ve got sprogs of a suitable age, otherwise wait for the DVD (or avoid altogether if you didn’t even like the original).
Here goes nothing
Here in Blighty it’s a Bank Holiday weekend, so naturally the weather’s dull and cold. To be fair, it was reasonably sunny yesterday, but that doesn’t count because Paula and I were at the house doing DIY rather than enjoying ourselves. 
The plasterer is due to come this Thursday and Friday, so hopefully the house will look a lot better afterwards. I can’t wait to be honest: it seems like we’ve been looking at concrete blockwork, electrical conduit and bare plasterboard for months, so it’ll be great when it’s all covered over and we can start to think about decorating.
I went back to the house on my own this afternoon because I wanted to remove the old windowsills: they’re covered in so many layers of paint it seemed easier to replace them with new boards. Not one of my better ideas. I started with the guest bedroom’s windowsill, which for some bizarre reason had been painted dark green by the previous owners. It was wedged (and nailed) in pretty tight, and proved quite difficult to lever out with the bolster chisel and crowbar. Eventually it succumbed, but I damaged the surrounding plasterwork more than I intended to. So sod it, the other windowsills are staying put…