Blinkers

06 March 2017

We went to the pictures yesterday, to watch the Lego Batman Movie. I suspended my sense of disbelief as usual and yes, cried near the end. Who knew that hanging a picture could be so moving‽

To get the film review out of the way, it’s fantastic, obviously it is, with an opening sequence that rivals pretty much anything I’ve seen I all my years (old git.) One of the best scenes in it, a precursor of what’s to come, involves heating Lobster Thermidor in a microwave.

Yeah ok, YMMV.

On the way out to the car after spending more money than I intended to (two large Belgian chocolate milkshakes for the girls, from the Costa Coffee) an old, esteemed colleague spotted me, and made his (and his family’s) presence known. Upon him asking how the film was, all I could do was mock-rub my eyes, indicating ‘it’s a tearjerker’, and we parted ways.

Interesting that, I’ve always tended to have tunnel-vision, a single-minded sense of purpose when…

If anyone ever see me walking the streets (or, it’s even worse in the car) and I apparently blank them, it really is my inability to focus on anything but the one thing at the centre of my attention. Yesterday’s thing: safely getting the girls to the car. Thirty years ago? Making sure I completed the jog without stray dogs, cars or pedestrians breaking my rhythm.

So don’t be shy.