The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Just as good as the first

Comedy - Drama 10/10

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is a follow up to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel with the return of the much loved characters from the first plus new faces ( Richard Gere and Tamsin Greig ) . I found this film very  uplifting and funny and is really worth the watch. The story follows both  Sonny ( Dev Patel ) and Muriel Donnelly ( Maggie Smith ) who are now in partnership with the Marigold hotel looking to expand the business, with promise of someone to inspect the hotel to help with that decision and with one room remaining, Sonny looks into making sure that one person is well looked after....With the threat of it jeopardising his marriage to  Sunaina ( Tina Desai).I really enjoyed watching this film and was not disappointed with it any way,  when there was dancing it really got me going to want to get up and dance with them. Paul and I both had the same views on the film which was really good and had a great discussion about it afterwards and has also got us to discuss a possible holiday to India one day as it looks beautiful. Dev Patel plays a really good part as Sonny and can not help but love his character throughout both films and will look forward to seeing him in future films. If you are looking into watching this film, watch the first one so you can get to know the characters and you then can appreciate the second as each individual character has their own story to follow.

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel trailer - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2555736/

Fifty Shades of Grey

Fifty Shades of Crap!

Drama - Romance 3/10

Well what can I say bout this film.....Not a lot really. I tried to read the book but I could not get into it. My friends went to see the film and were asking me if I was going to see it..I refused many a times as I think it would of been a waste of my money. When Paul was out with his friends I noticed it was available on my Mobi Box as it was now not going to cost me extra money I thought I would break and actually see what all the fuss was about....... I hated it...not that it was raunchy but it was a big cheese fest and poor. The only good thing about it was the sound track. The acting was cheesy and the ridiculous script from the film..OMG!! I could not believe some of the things the actors had to say. I fell asleep halfway though as my mind could not take it any more so I had to resume the following day and finish it just so I can write about it. No sorry it was not my cup of tea and I am definitely not in a rush to watch the sequel when it is released.

Drawing with Colour pencils

Derwent Colour pencils

Skin Tones

Love my Derwent Pencils

Before , after and the picture I used

Last week I brought some Derwent Skin tone Pencils, when I have been doing my drawing in the past I have always experimented with different paints and pastels but never thought to try colour pencils. When I draw it has to be a clear picture as now I am 30 my eyesight is no longer 100% lol , so when I went to a speedway meeting I purchased a photograph of my favourite rider as it was a very clear perfect picture. I attempted the drawing a couple of weeks ago but I felt it needed some improvement and was not happy with it, my dad kindly let me borrow a book of his all about colour pencils just to get a few tips and see where I was going wrong, I also got some handy tips off my dad too with using a white gel pen for highlights with the eyes and black fine liquid pen for eye lashes, so I tried again. Although it is not completely finished due to not having the colours I need I am very happy with the outcome. From this I have a custom order from someone at work who has asked me to do a portrait of their dog which I am very chuffed about. Think I need to get more pencils before I do, so I have some begging to do with Paul as they are expensive...So close to the wedding I think I know what the answer would be lol.

Almost finished picture