Out and About

It has been a while since the blog has been updated but we're back on track! So what has been happening lately? To name but a few things, there was the evening at the Red House and the skittles tournament at the Bickerton Poacher, which brought most NtC members together in February. Both events drew enthusiastic reviews from those who attended and we hope to organise more events like this soon.

Of course our regular events have been going on as before. We have our film enthusiasts who meet once a month and the next visit is tomorrow, when the film we'll go and see is 'Young Victoria'. The film starts at 7:50pm, at the Vue cinema in Cheshire Oaks. Filmgoers will meet up at Frankie and Bennies for a drink at 7:15pm.

From Time Out London:‘I will be good,’ Princess Victoria said on discovering she would be Queen. But, as things turned out, it was a touch more complicated. This sumptuous film has no interest in the ‘good’ dumpy adult Victoria, instead giving us a bildungsroman: after a stifling childhood, Victoria (Emily Blunt, above) must find maturity and independence – not easy with a controlling mother (Miranda Richardson), two scheming uncles and a snake-like prime minister (Paul Bettany). As in any traditional romance (and this, written by Julian Fellowes, is so trad its corsets creak), there are blips and the odd tear en route to a prince. That the prince, in this case, is Albert (Rupert Friend), her mother’s choice, just delays the inevitable.
Dignified and charismatic, Blunt gives great lip-wobble, and Friend pulls off the role of sidekick, but historical twiddling can’t render Victoria’s love life interesting and the only moving moment is the epilogue: 20 years’ happy marriage is more than most of us get, but 40 years of sorrowful widowhood is tragedy indeed.

More information tomorrow!