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I watched the first part of a new BBC TV series
tonight called Manchild
and enjoyed it a lot.
It's about four men who are aged around 50. One (Don Warrington who played Phillip
in Rising Damp 25 years ago) never got around to marrying, two are divorced and
the fourth is still married. It's about them enjoying life and, in the case of
the two divorced men, enjoying new found freedom after marriage.
Nigel Havers acts an a narrator/observer and talks directly into the camera at
some points. I liked the witty writing: there's much humour but some touching
moments too, such as tonight when Don Warrington's character talked with his elderly
mother in hospital).
I suppose one of the reasons why I liked it is because I'm facing my 40th birthday
in two days from now and I want to believe that 'life begins...' ;-)
In fact, I'm not worried about the end of my thirties. In a strange way I'm looking
forward to my forties. I think they're going to be fun! If there is a downside,
then it is stuff like my parents getting older and being around age 70 now.
Our family is small and close and I hate to think of there being a time when they
won't be around.
But life is too short to dwell on those thoughts for too long. And one of the
reasons why I'm now spending so much time up here rather than in Manchester is
so I can see mum and dad more often :-)
Also tonight I watched the first episode of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Would
you believe that I taped this BBC adaptation of Jeanette Winterson's novel back
in 1991 and I have never watched it? Apparently it won the Audience Award for
Best Feature in the 1990 San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
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