Oh So French!

While on holiday in France earlier this year, I found a lovely little shop selling vintage style French goods... we bought a lovely milk bottle and some pretty napkins.  What a shock then, to walk into "Oh So French" in Cowbridge on Saturday, and find an identical shop.  Have a look at their website - they stock lots of lovely bits and pieces .... 

M4 Playlist

After a particularly bad and busy day at work, me and Mr Plum headed off to Wales for the weekend on the National Express bus ... to visit some dear friends who have escaped London!

The fact that I had had a bad day (why do I have to go to work anyway?), was sitting by the heater on a packed bus with a really loud woman behind me on the phone and we seemed to be stuck in traffic for hours, inspired this playlist:

From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea - The Cure

Truth Rest Your Head - Gene

Time - Marion

To You I Bestow - Mundy

Always: Your Way - My Vitriol

Today - Smashing Pumpkins

How Soon Is Now? - The Smiths

My Dark Star - Suede

Tear In Your Hand - Tori Amos

Comes As No Surprise - Mansun

Dirty Davey - The Levellers

Lipgloss - Pulp

Every You and Every Me - Placebo

Play Dead - Bjork

The Only Living Boy in New Cross - Carter USM

Round Here - Counting Crows

Life On Mars? - David Bowie

Only Happy When It Rains - Garbage

A Girl Like You - Edwin Collins

Life Forever - Oasis

Single Girl - Lush

Great Things - Echobelly

These are lots of my favourite songs and mainly stuff that I listened too non-stop while at University in Wales ... it got me through a boring bus journey!

The Edge of Love

"The Edge of Love" is a film about the lives and inter-woven relationships of Dylan & Caitlin Thomas and Vera & Matthew Killick.  

The use of contemporary clips of war-time London helped evoke the period - the sets and costumes were all wonderful.  I had read that (cue deep American cinema voice) "if you liked Atonement - you will love The Edge of Love" - and I did! 

I loved the dresses and wellies that the girls wore when they were in Wales!

It was a beautiful film - although I have to admit that it left me feeling a bit downhearted.  

This is the second time that I have seen a film starring Keira Knightley where I hate to admit it, but she was actually very good.  She looked every bit the 1940's singer - and was surprised to find out that she did all her own singing!  I think that having to concentrate on her Welsh accent didn't give her a chance to do her usual poute! Thank goodness!  Some of Keira's costumes were actually based upon the real dresses worn by Vera at the time.  They are currently on show in an exhibition in Swansea.

I feel that I should know more about Dylan Thomas - having lived in West Wales for 3 years ... it turns out that Mr Plum actually lived on one of the pubs where Thomas would stay when visiting Lampeter!  Apparently the film is a good portrayal of Dylan Thomas and I left the cinema completely disliking him!