Tom's girlfriend Ellie came over today. Just before she arrived I'd been chatting with Ann. I'd been saying last week how much I wanted to see the film The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas but that it wasn't on anywhere locally and Ann was telling me that it was on at her local cinema. So while Peter stayed home for a haircut and to touch up some exterior paintwork and hang the falling pelmet, I wondered if I could tootle over to Ann's for a visit to the cinema with her. So Ellie had the unexpected delight of babysitting with Tom and Anni, for Hannah and Ella. Ella has a habit of saying, "My Mummy lets me do this.." as a prelude to doing something naughty. I'm guessing she said this right before she got out the felt tips. When we came back, Tom and Ellie were scrubbing the carpet and the girls looked like this:
Hilarious!
Bless them for babysitting, the film was so well done. Quite often I am bitterly disappointed by a film when I've loved the book, but this one was very true to the book and really brought it to life. Having been to Auschwitz made it even more real to me and even more harrowing, especially the scene in the gas chamber. On a previous History trip with my school, I have also been to the peace museum in Caen, where there is a brilliant exhibition called "The Descent to War". You actually physically walk downwards as you follow the history of Hitler's rise to power and exhibits of WW2 until at the end you come to the harrowing artefacts from the holocaust. When you leave that section, emotionally drained, you feel thankful that it is over. And then you are taken through an exhibit featuring all the atrocities there have been since that war and you realise that man's inhumanity to man will never end, on this earth anyway.
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