The Return Of The Fellowship To ... well, to Kat's Mum's, but close enough.

[ 10 : Moby - Machete ]

Plan for today:

• ~ Noon - Greet Semp at door.
• ~ "As Soon After Noon As The Munchies Are Laid Out And The Tea's Ready" - Park our arses on the sofa and start watching The Lord Of The Rings.
• ~Midnight - Piss like racehorses and apologise to our eyes, to our buttocks, and to the sofa.

What ACTUALLY happened was that Kat's Mum phoned from the hospital, and claimed that she was "embarrassed that her house was a state", and could Kat go down and tidy it up so that Kat's aunt wouldn't see it in a mess?
She was due out around 4pm, and arrangements were made to pick her up then.

As it turns out, she got her prescription sorted early and was able to leave a few hours earlier... So of course she expected everyone to drop what they were doing and go get her. Luckily, this didn't happen.
Semp and I accompanied Kat down there, intending to pick up some newspapers, maybe put some dishes into the kitchen, and perhaps empty the bin. We did NOT expect to find the floors utterly filthy ( With fucking PILLS lying around! )... The kitchen all "kinda sticky", dirty clothes strewn around the upstairs hall, the fridge absolutely REEKING when Kat opened it, and the whole place generally living up to the tag of "Filthy stinking hovel".

Now, I know Kat's mum's not well. But she's not THAT ill.
And if she's well enough to demand that she be allowed to look after Morgan, she's sure as shit well enough to make sure that her flat is in a reasonable state for a toddler to safely play in. Whether or not Morgan's allowed into the kitchen, "pills on the floor" is completely unacceptable!

Sidenote: I also found what looked suspiciously like a piece of broken "Handmade etched-glass Trigun coaster"... Like the one she denies ever even having seen, never mind having used and smashed after previously been caught using them and told NOT to.
I left it on top of her computer monitor.

It sickens me just how much of my stuff this woman has damaged or lost, without so much as a recognition that she did wrong... much less an apology!
Every time I watch The Fellowship Of The Ring, the Argonath scene annoys me because it reminds me of the aforementioned time that she screamed at Kat and accused me of moving our Argonath replicas upstairs to spite her because she liked them - After she told us to take all our shit upstairs! Then after we "moved out", she dug them out of my desk drawer, and managed to break both and lose the parts she'd broken off.

No respect for other people, or their property.
It's not hate... It's not even dislike.
It's disdain.


We grabbed some of our stuff, and headed back to begin watching The Other Holy Trilogy.
Julie A joined us midway through The Two Towers, and began to be freaked out by Gollum.
We educated her in The Ways Of The Wilhelm ( As mentioned in the esteemed Mr Semperson's blog... ) and a good time was had by all.
There was some decent banter throughout the movies we'd watched already, with an appropriate quietening during the extended version of The Return Of The King.

I like it! As I said a the time, the extended versions really ARE the versions of these movies that you should be watching. If the experience of watching the extended Return Of The King shows Peter Jackson's skill as a director ( And an editor when compared to the standard version and vice versa ) then watching all three back-to-back comfortably really shows his skills. What other movies / TV shows could you watch for ~12 solid hours and not get bored?

The first photo ever to be leaked from the set is explained here, too.
It was HOW many years ago now that folk were arguing about whether the "Wizard Kabob" shot of an robed figure impaled on a spiked wooden wheel, in front of a big blue-screen setup was even FROM LOTR?

I'm not too happy about the deletion of the Scouring Of The Shire... Of Sharkey's material, so to speak ;). But that aside, I think Jackson pulled it off admirably.