What a weekend that this… has been? is being, will continue to be??? Cos it goes on and on, seems like for 4 days. Which of course it is. I’m loving Jesus too at this point. Yesterday Spurs won. Again, not just a win but a blow-away, fuck-off annihilation. Superb, elegant, classy, fast, powerful. Frikkin wonderful.

Played some tennis on Friday, f’ra change, tai chi on Saturday, no change, and then today Chelsea lost. The dream. I only saw the end. We went to Arundel Castle. In… errr… Arundel. Down south. Put it on waze and 2 hours later you get there, as if by magic. And its fab. Most wonderful gardens ever. But I can’t talk about it now. Because in between all that, and swooning over the fact that blue and white Spurs make pink stuff for baby girls, I got involved with Asian lesbians in a big way. Really big way.

We went to see The Handmaiden. Korean movie based on the book Fingersmith. They moved it from Victorian England to Korea under Japanese rule. So its very historical and therefore ‘hi-brow’ and its subtitled, unless you speak Kim-Jong-anything, therefore its ‘arthouse’ and it is probably the most beautiful filming I’ve ever seen, so its classy. And yet what stands out is the lesbian porn.

Though really I’m perhaps not giving the film the credit it deserves. I never read the book but I’m now going to because the story is quite brilliant. Twists and turns like… something very twisty and turny. Like the road to Arundel. Wonderfully so. Even though its over 2 hours long you’re just gripped. In fact you’re scared that if you miss just one word your life may never be the same again. Its also really funny in places (though don’t worry its horribly violent in others, in case I’d put you off) and wonderfully acted. I don’t expect humour from far Eastern films. I expect people leaping over buildings whilst killing 17 birds with a samurai sword. But you don’t get that here either. They missed a trick

All you get is probably the best film you’ve seen for a decade. Ok, for a year for sure. Maybe 5. And definitely on my all time top 10 list (currently 86 films). Go see it.

In tomorrow’s exiting episode of The Pesach Journal we need to talk about cows. No really, we do.

And I need to tell me mate Ali that tomorrow night I’m right with him. Us ‘Boro boys gotta stick together in time’s of (mutual) need.

Happy very late Sunday

A xxxx