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Ice Skating at Somerset House

Nice sunny day today ; went ice skating at Somerset House.
Quite a few people were simply 'shuffling ' around and not really 'ice skating'.

 

Paul Klee at the Modern Tate

 

 Tony and me saw the Paul Klee exhibition plus the Mira Schendel exhibition whose works of art reminded me of visits to the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid.

Lunch at Malaysian cafe/restaurant in Chinatown

Today we went to a Malaysian cafe/restaurant where we all basically had Nasi Lemak with either prawns,beef or chicken with the basic dish costing £5.50 and extra items £1.00.

Here's a video of a Malaysian place in Chinatown but not the one we went to ,perhaps another time.

The Time of the Doctor!

Doctor Who 'Time of the Doctor ' Radio Times review
Telegraph review
Digital Spy Review
The Independent Review
huffingtonpost review
Orla Brady's Secret

Storms cause havoc and travel chaos in Britain

Many people's Christmas travel plans have been disrupted by the storms with many passengers stranded at train stations or the airport; at Gatwick Airport those hoping to escape the severe weather are likely to spend Christmas Day at the airport!

Kids Theatre Theatre Week

This week at the local cinema there has been a week of Kids Theatre productions , a piece of theatre followed by a film. Yesterday there was a Belgian company with a musical play about a witch and later on the International School from Carthage seemed to have a series of ' auditions' ;the presenter was very confident; in fact all the kids, aged from nine years old and upwards were all confident, the film ' The Day of the Blackbird' followed.
Today the theatre production came from Ukraine featuring two Ukrainian girls presenting a story and a dog crossing a bridge followed by the film 'Epic' a story about good against the forces of evil.
The action sequences and special effects reminded me of the film ' Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' whilst some of the effects reminded me a little of Doctor Who for instance the regeneration effect.

 

 

 

The Beatles Radio Player

Click here for the Beatles Player

Xmas Party

Last night went to David and Maureen's Christmas party which proved to be revealing in some of the relationships that are going on!

Yesterday Peter O'Toole passed away.
Click here for some pictures from his career.

Coffee at CafeToque

This evening I had coffee and cheesecake at Café Toque and later on went to the opening of a new Sony shop.

By the way have you been to the Saf Saf Café? Watch this video for a little flavour of it.

 

and this is the news in .....2050!

and here is today's news .....in 2050

Doctor Who: 50 years of time travel in the TARDIS

Click here to see an infographic re 50 years of time travel in the TARDIS

 

The Moon and the Earth dance!

Juno's flypast capture the moon and Earth 'dance' !

'Giant of History ' Nelson Mandela Honoured!

' Giant of History ' Nelson Mandela ,who passed away last week,was honoured in a memorial.

'Spoof TV Show ' Filming in La Marsa

This morning I bumped into a TV crew interviewing the local residents of La Marsa on their use of modern technology for communicating with each other:
One man,in his mid-forties ,when asked how he communicated with his girlfriend he said he hadn't got one and he said he didn't use any of the social media to communicate so no Facebook,Skype or the latest craze of Instagram. Earlier on the TV screw had more success with a young couple; so is modern social devices mainly just the young Tunisians who are up to date with the modern world?
The interviewer was wearing a camera on his head as went from one unsuspecting 'interviewee' to the next one! Nadia Besrou ,the wardrobe and make-up artist, said the filming was going to be for a new Tunisian TV show to be broadcasted sometime next year.

 

 

 

Que La Fete Commence !

'Que La Fete Commence' is the latest exhibition at the Mille Feuilles bookshop in La Marsa.
Catch it while you can: December until January 2014.

Here's a selection of some of the paintings by Othman Taleb:

Water Lily

Vie en Eau Trouble

The Splash of the Young

Water Ivress



Elle




La Perte

 

'Fifth' Beatle

'Fifth' Beatle in graphic novel

 

Teaching English Radio

Hello welcome to this month's Teaching English Radio programme!

This month's topic is ‘Managing Different Levels ’.

Teachers agree that multi-level classes can present a real challenge. Some students learn English in other places and so are far more proficient than some of the others. Many teachers use this to their advantage and pair stronger students with weaker ones.This can increase the confidence of the stronger ones, who have a sense of responsibility, and help ‘pull the weaker ones up’.Teachers helping each other and pooling resources can provide creative solutions to challenges in multi-level classes.

Today's guests in the studio were:Mrs Raoudha Belhaj Primary Teacher Trainer,Tunis,Mrs Sabiha Inoubli, Inspector,Bizerte,Mrs Mélek Jlejla, Secondary school teacher and Jean Wilson,Vocational Training specialist.

 
 

Click http://www.radiotunisienne.tn/rtci/sounds/anglais/anglais06122013.mp3
to listen to the programme.

We'll be having a break in January so the next programme of series 3will be  in February 2014!

Argentinian Film Festival 2013

Tonight I saw the film 'Les Acacias' the first film of the Argentinian  film festival.

https://soundcloud.com/patstradjinski/argentian-film-festival-2013