The Saint (1997)

A very disappointing film, nothing like the series.

Simon Templar has no real family, no real home and Simon Templar isn't even his real name. Yet Simon Templar , also known as the Saint for his use of creating false identities using the names of Catholic saints,is one of the world's most successful thieves. Slick, debonair and a master of disguise, Simon manages to outwit the police again and again. On his next job Simon is hired by the Russian Mafia to steal a cold fusion energy formula from scientist Emma Russel, however the mission backfires as he falls for the pretty, intelligent scientist. Simon and his new love must now manage to outwit the Russian Mafia and work out the energy formula before the worst happens and the US is affected forever. Written by LadyN1

As a young orphan, a boy refuses to accept the name given him by priests and instead chooses to take on the name of Simon Templar after the Saint of magic. Speed ahead and the young boy is now a master thief in bidding wars with countries for his services. Using his skills of master disguise, he eludes all pursuers as he assumes names associated with the various Saints. In this role after stealing from a Russian industrialist, the industrialist hires The Saint to steal a formula for cold fusion being developed by a young female scientist. Cold fusion is said to permit a nation to heat its citizens with only a few gallons of water. However, on this case The Saint falls in love with the scientist placing him in a quandary of fulfilling his professional obligations or staying with the innocent young scientist. When she becomes threatened by the Russian Mafia, he has no choice but to go ahead with his job. However, she follows him to Moscow, setting off a chase across the City and through their sewers. Written by John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>

Simon Templar - a fictitious name a young orphan boy invented for himself in a Hong Kong orphanage years ago - is now a suave, debonair, international thief who needs to pull-off just one more exuberant heist to put him at the $50 million mark in his Swiss bank account (his goal amount for retirement). An easy job: simply steal Dr. Emma Russel's formula for cold-fusion, and deliver it to a Russian billionaire bent on sending Russia back to Communism - no problem, Right? Wrong! There's one thing Mr. Templar, master of disguise didn't count on ... falling in love. Written by Shannon De Lacy <delacy@execpc.com>

Ivan Tretiak, Russian Mafia boss who wants to create an oil crisis in Moscow and seize power as a result sends Simon Templar, great international criminal, to England to get a secret formula for cold fusion from U.S. scientist Emma Russell. That formula will give Tretiak a source of cheap energy and a lot of money as result. Templar falls in love with Emma and they try to outwit Tretiak and his guerrillas, hiding from them in Moscow.

	Val Kilmer	...	Simon Templar
	Elisabeth Shue	...	Dr. Emma Russell
	Rade Serbedzija	...	Ivan Tretiak

Great is the Darkness

In Church this morning we talked about Kings 18v1-39.

This evening i went to Prayer and Praise and we opened with the following hymn, it is just how i feel about the world today, everything is so sad and hurting.

Great is the darkness (Come Lord Jesus)

Great is the darkness
That covers the earth
Oppression, injustice and pain
Nations are slipping
In hopeless despair
Though many have come in Your name
Watching while sanity dies
Touched by the madness and lies

Come Lord Jesus, come Lord Jesus
Pour out Your spirit we pray
Come Lord Jesus, come Lord Jesus
Pour out Your spirit on us today

May now Your church rise
With power and love
This glorious gospel proclaim
In every nation
Salvation will come
To those who believe in Your name
Help us bring light to this world
That we might speed Your return

Great celebrations
On that final day
When out of the heavens You come
Darkness will vanish
All sorrow will end
And rulers will bow at Your throne
Our great commission complete
Then face to face we shall meet

Firetrap (2001)

Master burglar Max Hopper is released early after three years and soon gets an exceptional job: stealing an advanced computer-chip from the IQ Industries headquarters. His first attempt fails; when he enters in cop uniform during an emergency board meeting, a fire quickly spreads- he considers it a godsend opportunity and stays, but soon has his hands too full saving other lives and just surviving to concentrate on the chip; only the owner, his wife who just filed for divorce and a few employees remain, but it soon turns out one of them stole company secrets but the arsonist and/or another chip-thieve are among them...

	Dean Cain	...	Jack / Max Hooper
	Richard Tyson	...	Paul Brody
	Mel Harris	...	Cordelia Calloway
	Lori Petty	...	Lucy
	Steven Williams	...	Firefighter Chief Sheehan
	Vanessa Angel	...	Beth Hooper
	Jim Storm	...	Jack Calloway

Greenmail (Video 2002)

After huge explosions rip through a chemical processing plant, Alexander Scott, The leader of the radical extremests, is apprehended by a beautiful but tough ATF agent. While in jail, a series of bombings take place killing innocent people. Scott suspects that one of his own is out of control. An unlikely alliance between Scott and the agent may be the only way to stop the killings. Now, the countdown is on in this race to stop the deadly bomber at any cost.

	Stephen Baldwin	...	Scott Anderson
	Tom Skerritt	...	Tom Bradshaw
	Kelly Rowan	...	Ashley Pryor
	D.B. Sweeney	...	Jeremy O'Brien

The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (TV 2004)

When a magical artifact is lifted from his library, a meek librarian sets out to ensure its safe return. To do so, however, he enlists the service of a woman with exceptional martial arts skills - who becomes the enforcer in the relationship.

	Noah Wyle	...	Flynn Carsen
	Sonya Walger	...	Nicole Noone
	Bob Newhart	...	Judson
	Kyle MacLachlan	...	Edward Wilde
	Kelly Hu	...	Lana
	David Dayan Fisher	...	Rhodes
	Jane Curtin	...	Charlene
	Olympia Dukakis	...	Margie Carsen

Super Eruption (TV 2011)

A section of the super volcano under Yellowstone erupts after thousands of years, putting millions at risk.

	Richard Burgi	...	Charlie Young
	Juliet Aubrey	...	Kate
	MyAnna Buring	...	Claire
	Peter Vollebregt	...	George Howe

The Shop on Blossom Street (Blossom Street #1) by Debbie Macomber

This was a different type of book for me, picked it up at a book stall, but i thoroughly enjoyed it:)


Four lives knit together ...
There's a little shop on Blossom Street in Seattle called A Good Yarn. You go there to buy knitting supplies and patterns -- and now it's offering a knitting class. The first lesson: how to knit a baby blanket.
For owner Lydia Hoffman, the shop represents her dream of beginning a new life free from the cancer that has ravaged her twice. A life that offers a chance at love ... and maybe marriage.
Jacqueline Donovan is stuck in a marriage that has dwindled into an arrangement of separate rooms and separate lives. She disapproves of the woman married to her only son, but if she knits a baby blanket, she can at least pretend to like her pregnant daughter-in-law.
For Carol Girard, the baby blanket brings a message of hope as she and her husband make a final attempt at in vitro pregnancy.
And tense-looking Alix Townsend -- that's Alix with an "i" -- is learning to knit her blanket for her court-ordered community service project.
Brought together by an age-old craft, these four women make unexpected discoveries -- about themselves and each other. Discoveries that lead to love, to friendship and acceptance, to laughter and dreams.

Behemoth

Two military agents are taking readings on Mount Lincoln near the town of Ascension. There is a quake and the woman dies with marks on her face. The man also dies though we don't see it. Elsewhere, a man is injured in a work crew and dies for no apparent reason. It later turns out the quakes on the mountain are producing a layer of carbon dioxide gas so in laying him down, he suffocated while they did not notice it while standing.
Emily who is studying Mt Lincoln (known for its many quakes) from nearby has to visit the mountain as two "boxes" are malfunctioning. In town we see Thomas's father William who is considered a little dotty as he has some strange theories about the mountain and a Mayan monster which will redress the balance if humanity goes too far. Emily bumps into Thomas in town and they are old friends. Satellite images show movement under the mountain and they believe there are some kind of major quakes and maybe volcanic action going on there.
While everyone else is keeping away from the mountain, Thomas's sister Grace and her boyfriend decide to go camping there, where he plans to propose to her. Thomas is persuaded to go up the mountain as guide for government man, Jack Murray because of something very important there. They meet Emily who is running because part of a mountain suddenly blew out near her, close by. Meanwhile, the proposal was rather ruined by the sight of a monstrous eye appearing out of the side of the mountain and a massive tentacle trying to kill them.
Emily has persuaded the Sheriff to evacuate the whole town but Thomas and Emily decide to go back onto the mountain to look for the missing couple. They find Jack injured on the mountain then have their own close encounter with the monster, who kills Jack but not before he has told them that the troubles at Mt Lincoln were felt all over the world six months ago and a missing box may be their only chance against the monster (lost when the agents were killed), so they go looking for it while looking for the couple.
An earthquake seriously damages the town, and the diner William is in, trying to get owner-waitress Zoe to leave, sinks into the ground. The box is recovered but the monster has found the couple first. The boyfriend ends up in the monster's maw but Thomas turns up in time and pulls Grace to safety. 73 minutes into the film, the monster decides it is time to reveal itself, ripping off the top of a mountain to do so. Thomas opens the box and fires a shoulder-launched multi-warhead missile at the monster, with the one which goes down its throat killing it. William and Zoe escape from the diner in a sinkhole and all are reunited.
The location used for the town and surrounding countryside was Stawamus Chief(Squamish), British Columbia, Canada.

• Ed Quinn as Thomas Walsh
• Pascale Hutton as Emily
• Cindy Busby as Grace
• William B Davis as William
• Jessica Parker Kennedy as Zoe
• Garry Chalk as Sheriff

Natural History Museum

Saw this in the Natural History Museum in the Human Biology Department, they were very big.

London Here we Come

Rising early we left at around 7.30am to catch the 8.29am train to London, it was Andy's Birthday yesterday and he chose to go to London today to celebrate, so 8 of us went, Andy and Jen and Children, Sandra and Terry and me and Bob.

Train arriving at Kings Lynn

Sophie, hair amess listening to Ipod

Dylan singing along to 'I am the Music Man'

 It was a good train journey to London, then we caught the Underground train to South Kensington to visit the Natural History Museum.

The Tube station

 On arriving at the Natural History Museum, we found a long queue, and had to queue up for about 30 minutes.

Natural History Museum

The queue

When we eventually go in the museum

The Entrance Hall

 Our first stop was to the basement to the indoor picnic area for an early lunch before it got busy.

Indoor Picnic area in the basement

The biggest tea bag ever

Our first port of call was the Dinosaur Room

Then we went into Human Biology where Sophie, Dylan and ME and then Bob had a go at hopscotch.

Then we headed for the Mammels, and to see the Blue Whale which was Jen's sole reason for going.

The Blue Whale

Sophie had been on about seeing the Creepy Crawlie so we then headed there.

We then went to visit the gift shop, by now we were all hot, bothered and tired, so decided to leave, and walk to Hyde Park which was a far longer walk than i was led to believe:)

Prince Alberts Memorial

Horses riding out in Hyde Park

Princess Diana's Memorial Fountain

We stopped at a Lakeside cafe for an ice cream

Lake Serpentine

Sophie 'What is that Water' Me 'The Serpentine' Sophie 'so in London Lakes are called Serpentine but in Hunstanton they are called lakes'  Then she proceeded to ask in London what are 'deck chairs' called, 'buses' called' etc etc lol.

Queen Carolines Memorial for whom the Serpentine was created.

The Waterfall from both sides

The Squirrel

The Den

Then we headed back to Kings Cross on the Underground, and before heading for home went to visit St Pancras Station you know how boys are with their toys or is it trains:)

We passed a Sushi bar where the Sushi was going round on a small conveyer belt, pretty neat

Then we headed to Kings Cross and picked up a Burgerking and caught the train home, overall a successful day, full of new experiences for the children, who were very well behaved, a good day, but very very tiring. We got home about 8.15pm.