Our SLG friends joined us at ShoreLine Cinema at Waikanae for a morning at the movies. It was Robin’s turn to organise our monthly get-together, and after his original idea fell through, decided instead on a morning at the movies. We saw the film “Performance”, which told the story of four musicians, a celebrated string quartet who had been playing together for 25 years. A bombshell stuns the group when Peter announces he has Parkinson's Disease and must retire. Not only is there the grief of what lies ahead, but also simmering tensions between the other three, Robert and wife Juliette, and first violinist Daniel. This dark and sombre film is nothing like the light hearted “Quartet” which we had seen and laughed at several months ago. Instead it explores emotions, human nature, and shows the absolute commitment of musical perfectionists, all enhanced by the music of Beethoven's String Quartet No 14 in C sharp minor Op. 131. Although I can’t claim to be a classical music lover, I decided that I rather enjoyed the sound of the violin, which sounds very European to my untutored ear. It must be calling to my Gypsy heritage, I commented to Robin. His reply – Bollocks!
The string quartet of “Performance”
Coming back to our house for a Pot Luck lunch, we had a detour to RJ’s Licorice on the other side of Levin. Who could resist those shelves packed with all sorts of tasty licorice? Our group of big kids in the lolly shop tried a few samples, made up their minds, and happily took their purchases away in black plastic bags.
Now, what shall we buy?
Our little haul from RJs
Back at our home we shared a tasty Pot Luck lunch of finger food. Everyone had brought along something tasty to put on the table, so we had a little of this, a bit of that, and one or two of those, with a hot drink to wash it all down. Some of our guests had not been to our new house before, so they got a grand tour. Our cat Muffy thought that all these people had come up especially to see her, so did the rounds to check everyone out. She wasn’t very impressed that Les was sitting in the chair she really wanted to curl up on, so sneaked around behind him, wriggled around, and made herself at home.
This is really MY seat, Les!
Les wasn’t really comfortable at all with our cat taking up so much space behind him, so finally gave up and changed seats. Muffy then changed her allegiance and made herself comfy on Trish's lap.
Muffy and Trish
It was a very pleasant day out, an interesting film, finishing off with a tasty lunch, and plenty of talk, as we do, catching up with everyone’s news. It is always good to meet up with our group of friends, and we never seem to run out of things to talk about.
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