A tidings of Magpies
Aug. 15th, 2008 06:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vickyduckyI looked up what the collective noun for magpies is because yesterday I was surrounded by them! Well, not literally but I was beginning to feel a bit like Tippi Hedren. I've always been very superstitious about magpies (one for sorrow etc). Actually I used to think I was superstitious about all sorts of things even to the point of making up new ones but then I realised this was just OCD manifesting itself. Anywho. When I left the house yesterday a.m. there were seven or possibly eight (they wouldn't stay still to be counted) in a tree outside our house. I'd never seen so many together at once. Then on the drive in I saw ones and twos every few yards it seems and then when leaving work (40 miles from home) I saw another whole mob, five or six at least. What's going on?
In other news I saw the new Mummy film last night. Really really crap. The other two were tosh but entertaining tosh. This was just rubbish. And I don't know who the woman was who has Rachel Weisz' part but she can't act to save her life, had no chemistry with the husband and her upper class English accent was so irritating I can't tell you. Also there was a stomach churning father and son bonding scene that almost made me bring back my very expensive ice-cream. Still the Yetis were fun.
In other news I saw the new Mummy film last night. Really really crap. The other two were tosh but entertaining tosh. This was just rubbish. And I don't know who the woman was who has Rachel Weisz' part but she can't act to save her life, had no chemistry with the husband and her upper class English accent was so irritating I can't tell you. Also there was a stomach churning father and son bonding scene that almost made me bring back my very expensive ice-cream. Still the Yetis were fun.
