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I'm off to the cinema with a friend  this evening to see "A Song For Marion".  We saw the preview last week, and it looks very good.  

1hr 33min‎‎ - Rated PG‎‎ - Comedy/Drama‎‎ - English‎
Director: Paul Andrew Williams - Cast: Terence Stamp, Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Eccleston,Gemma Arterton, Anne Reid, Calita Rainford

A wonderfully, heart-warming story of a loving marriage between grumpy pensioner Arthur and the ever-cheerful Marion. Cantankerous but doting husband Arthur does not share his wife Marion's passion for performing. While she is happy to sing her heart out with the unconventional local choir, Arthur would prefer to hide himself away and complain about how embarrassing it all is. But when heartbreak strikes, Arthur is forced to re-think his outlook on life. With the steady perseverance of choir director Elizabeth, Arthur begins to find a way to come out of his shell and in the process forms a touching relationship with Elizabeth as well as a desire to build bridges with his estranged son James.

Tomorrow evening, we have a meeting of our Book Club - we meet every six weeks - and the book we will be discussing this time is The Kashmir Shawl by Rosie Thomas.  I absolutely loved it.  A lot of the story takes place in Kashmir in India, although it starts off in Wales.  Mair's father has recently died and when packing up the house, along with her siblings, they find an exquisite shawl, along with a lock of hair.  Mair takes it upon herself to return to India, where her grandparents were Missionaries, to try to solve the reason why her grandmother had kept the shawl, and exactly what it meant to her.

I must admit, I do enjoy stories where you have action taking place in the current time, but also a story going on in years gone past.  The author was very clever in bringing the two storylines together.  I thoroughly recommend it!

Have any of you heard of Dropbox.  I first heard of it at Christmas, when I had a new Samsung Galaxy 10 tablet as a Christmas present.  It's a wonderful App, and I'm amazed just how clever it is.  I have all my photos stored on my laptop, but by using the Dropbox App, I can call all the photos up on my Tablet and, also, my mobile phone.  Clever stuff, all this new technology.

The good thing about it is that, although you have access to all your photos, it is not actually taking up any space on the Tablet or mobile phone. As I said before, amazing!!

I have found a good thing on the camera of my new mobile phone, the Apple iPhone 5 , and, that is, that it has a panoramic feature.  This will be really useful when I'm on holiday looking at wonderful old buildings.  But, just to give you an idea, I took a photo of the lounge whilst I was sat in the armchair the other evening, and here is the result!

We have an open fireplace and love to have the log fire roaring away, but, my goodness, it certainly eats the logs.  We can usually get through six log basketfuls in an evening!  It's not too much of a problem, because we have so many trees in the garden, I don't think there will be a shortage of wood for quite a while.

Anyway, we are looking into having a Wood Burner installed.  They're supposed to be very good, and I think it will go quite well with the house. 

I think that's about all the news from this end for the time being.  See you again soon!

Because of time, I know that I'm not very good in replying to comments, but I would just like to say that I love receiving all of them.  They all give me great pleasure, especially my faithful Followers that leave a comment on every single post.  Thank you all my friends.  

Because friendship is on my mind quite a lot at the moment, I leave you with a couple of quotes.  Take care.

Friendship quotes courtesy of Pinterest.