Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Seasonal trees

Here are some pictures of several trees I have seen this festive season.

 

 

National Portrait Gallery

Pictures from a visit to the National Portrait Gallery.

Two blankets

This is more blankets knitted by my colleague and I stitched the squares together for her. She knitted it all and arranged the colours. The big one is 54 squares and the small one is 16 squares.

 

Films

Today my post is different. From 28 November 2015 I decided to write down how many films I watched during one year. Here is the list:

1. It’s A Wonderful Life – drama – James Stewart
2. Hotel international – Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
3. The Little Mermaid- Animation – 1989
4. Deck The Halls – comedy – Danny Devito and Matthew Broderick
5. Wuthering Heights – Merle Oberon, Laurence Oliver and David Niven
6. J.Edgar Hoover – Leonardo Dicaprio
7. Ben Hur – Charlton Heston and Jack Hawkins
8. The Simpsons Movie – animation
9. The Jungle Book – animation
10. Doctor Zhivago – Omar Sharf and Geraldine Chaplin – 1665
11. Red 2 – comedy – Bruce Wills
12. Gone With The Wind – Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh
13. The Lady Vanishes – May Whitty
14. Mrs Brown’s Boy’s D Movie
15. Brave – animation
16. The Sound of Music – Julie Andrews
17. Who ‘s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
18. Cat on Hot Tin Roof – Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman
19. The Usual Suspects – Kevin Spacey
20. First Wives Club
21. Big Eyes – Amy Adams
22. Cleopatra – Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
23. Funny Girl – Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif
24. Rock Around The Clock – Johnny Johnston and Bill Haley
25. Another Cinderella Story – Selena Gomez
26. Funny Lady – Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif
27. Suffragette – Carey Mulligan
28. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – Judi Dench
29. Le Week-End – Jim Broadbent
30. 12 Years A Slave
31. About Time
32. Gandhi – Ben Kingsley
33. August: Osage County – Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep
34. Life of Pi
35. Before I Go To Sleep – Nicole Kidman
36. Pitch Perfect
37. Bend of the River – 1952
38. Les Miserables – musical – Eddie Redmayne
39. Thor – Chris Hemsworth
40. Dr Seuss – The Lorax – animation
41. The Imitation Game – Keira Knightley
42. Fanny by Gaslight
43. Notorious – Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman
44. Mosquito Squadron
45. Vertigo – James Stewart and Kim Novak
46. Merry Kissmas! – Kairssa Staples and Brant Daugherty
47. Miss Potter – biopic
48. Crazy for Christmas
49. Deep Impact – sci-fi – Robert Duvall
50. Noel – Susan Sarandon

Globe Theatre

Yesterday was the second time I attended ‘The Wonders of Winter’ concert at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.

Tate Modern

I went to Tate Modern today and also saw the new extension, which is 10 floors high.

Royal Academy of Arts

I visited the Royal Academy of Arts for an exhibition about Abstract Expressionism. Unfortunately visitors were not allowed to take photos.

Natural History Museum

I visited the Natural History Museum recently. The museum first opened its doors on 18 April 1881. This museum has very good collections for teaching and major research. The collections cover botany, entomology, mineralogy, palaeontology and zoology.