My Favourite Film

Radiotherapy ~ Day 2 (15:40)

Well, I've thought long and hard about this one,

and there are so many to choose from

Far from the Madding Crowd

Dr Zhivago

West Side Story

Breakfast at Tiffany's

The Nun's Story

The Railway Children

The Way We Were

Love Story

Chocolat

Atonement

I could go on!

But in the end I've decided to plump for the film

that has probably given me pleasure for the longest time ....

How cheesy I hear you say!

I make no apologies!

I was taken to see this film when I was a child, and actually had an L.P.of the sound track!

We sang the songs in the car on our journeys to North Wales for our summer holidays

(no CD players or radios back in the day!!!!)

Then, of course it was on TV every Christmas.

When I was little I loved all the scenes with the children ..

... and got very bored at the slushy love scenes!

However, with the passage of time, I realised that the Captain wasn't mean at all!!!

This is my very favourite part of the whole film now....

~ such a romantic setting ~

Don't you just long for a summer house like this?

A few years ago, the film was taken to a whole new level with the coming of :-

Sing-a-long-Sound-of-Music!

You've never lived till you've participated in a

Sing-a-long-Sound-of-Music

SCOUSE style!!!!

I went along with my sister about 8 years ago -

and it was probably one of the best nights out we'd ever had.

 Surrounded by people dressed up as brown paper packages, Nazis and nuns

we sang our hearts out,

waved our sprigs of eidelweiss and green curtain fabric

in all the appropriate places,

and laughed

till tears rolled down our faces

as Liverpool wit rang out all around us!

Fantastic!

So, yes, I think it has be The Sound of Music

which has kept me entertained on so many levels

for more than 40 years!