Amazingly the Kings Head DID bring back Karaoke nights - For tonight at least - I went for half an hour , and , I'm no great fan of amateur singing but , a couple of years ago ,
thursday evenings there were packed out and there was a great atmosphere - Less so tonight , but , if they dare to defy the elderly of this town who detest the idea of younger folk having fun and install it as regular feature then it could be really good again , though I was the only person alone there not knowing others well enough to chat with . . Poor Me ! - But , IF it continues regularly and If I keep going then maybe . .

In todays 'Mail a warning that drinking 7 pints of beer or lager a week can shrink ones brain - Well I drink somewhat more than that , to relax me and to hopefully make life seem more worth living , so , perhaps , if I'm alive in 20 years time my brain will be the size of a baked bean , though , only in the evenings and never to any obviously drunk stage . Though Whether that efect is limited to beer , or whether , more likely , it's a case of 'wine snobs' looking down onto us lesser mortals . . .

I presume its producers had the idea of : A topical and lurid theme :
Young female teacher has passionate clandestine affair with young teenage boy pupil ;
A good looking boy and young(ish) attractive Cate Blanchett and lots of swearing to appeal to the younger audience , and Dame Judi Dench to appeal to the older lady audience = a profitable little british film .
How the inappropiate , dangerous , doomed teacher/pupil fling came about seemed very plausible ; Less so Judi Dench's character , Barbara , turning out to be a borderline psycopathic, lustful elderly lesbian Stalker .
Neither Barbara or the boy are at all likeable in the film , and Cate Blanchett's character , Sheba , just comes over as rather irritatingly silly .
It's an uncomfortable film , occasionally funny . I was glad when it was over and will not be watching it again .
And , why should female teachers having sexual relationships with teenage boy pupils be considered lesser criminals than male teachers with teen girl pupils ?
Well , girls just ARE more vulnerable , are'nt they (?)
If I'd been seduced at the age of 15 by a young female teacher I just think that'd have been just great , and may have saved me of a lifetime of shyness .
The movie of the Last King of Scotland : Not bad at all though for me it was spoilt quite a lot by it being So very different in So many ways to the novel that I'd just read .