We found Eeyore!!!

 Andrea had to go out today and on the way home, she found an abandoned Eeyore.  So she brought him home.  He was rather skinny so we may have to do surgery to fill him up a bit.

But he's got a pink ribbon on his tail though.....!

Movie Review - "Dracula"

Movie Review number 34

PLOT

This black and white movie made in 1931 is based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" story and starts with Englishman Mr Redfield travelling by horse drawn carriage to Transylvania for a meeting at Dracula's Castle.  He arrives late at night to a small Transylvanian village, with the carriage driver refusing to go any further.  Mr Redfield insists as he has an Important Meeting and has to reach another horse drawn carriage at midnight exactly to take him to the castle.  After some discussion, they agree to take him further up the mountain.

He reaches the second carriage and is then taken up to the Castle where he is met by Count Dracula played by Hungarian Bela Lugosi.  Lugosi does a very creepily evil, if somewhat camp, Count (with the plastic bats and spiders not adding any sense of seriousness to the movie!  I'm sure if you looked hard enough, you could probably spot the wires the bats are dangling from!!!)  Redfield has arrived with a lease agreement on an old abbey (monastery/church) in Whitby, England which, after close examination, agrees to and states that four boxes will be ready for a ship voyage to Whitby the next day.

Next, there is a ship sailing through a horridly nasty storm........ only to be found drifting into Whitby Harbour some time later, with the entire crew dead, and a madman (Redfield) in the hull of the boat with four boxes....... which turn out to be coffins!!!!  But what's inside the coffins???  Redfield is then taken to Dr Seward's Sanatorium for the Insane.

Later, Count Dracula arranges to meet Lucy, Mina and her fiance John Harker to find that his rented abbey is "next door" to their large property and are neighbours!  A few days later, Lucy is discovered comatose in bed with two marks on her neck.  After several blood transfusions, she never gain consciousness and dies.  Dr Van Helsing arrives to assist, and finds that Dracula cannot be seen in a mirror, and discovers Dracula's true identity!!!!  Later, Mina complains of nightmares, and is found also to have two marks on her neck and Van Helsing discovers that she now is part of the Undead Vampires!!!  John Harker refuses to believe it, and tries to take Mina to London to get her away from the panic setting in around Whitby!  However, she is kidnapped by the Count and taken to the Abbey.... followed by the mad Redfield...... who is followed by Van Helsing and Harker!!  Van Helsing drives a stake through the heart of the Count, and Harker finds Mina "just in time"...... which is where the movie ends!!!

RECOMMENDED
Although this is now somewhat dated, it's a good "watch"!

SCORE
7 squeaks out of 10

SCOOBY SNACKS
Black pudding.
If you don't know what that is, google it!!!

What we did for Christmas....!

 today we bounced up and down on the bed long enough to get Andrea up so we could open our prezzies!!!

 George got this from Dilly!  He loves it!!!

 Then Tango opened his prezzie from Bob....

OH WOWEE!!!

They're underpants!!!!! 

 There were three other prezzies from Bob and Dilly but we weren't sure which was for Andrea and which was for me.  We opened this one first.....

 OH!! Squeezy keys for getting paint out of tubes!!  They must be for Andrea!

 What's this one???

OH WOW!!!  A Marbled tree!!  We love it!

 Then there was this one.....

 Oh what fun!!  These must be mine!!!!

Thanks Bob and Dilly!!

 Then we opened a prezzie we got in the Terrier SOS auction.....

 Oh those'll be handy!!

 Then we opened some prezzies we got for Andrea!!!

 We got her a Northern Lights bath bomb!!!

 And some Yog Nog soap!  That smells yummo!

 then there were these....

 They're bubble bars!!!  You break a bit off and crumble it under running taps and it makes loads of smelly bubbles!!!  Tango liked the orange one best

 Then we got her these two.....

A Honey Bee bath bomb and some Reindeer Rock soap!!  She really liked these!!

 THEN we had breakfast!!!  Hot Croissants and coffee!!!

 After breakfast, me and Andrea walked over to her Mum and Dad's for lunch.

We left some weathergrams at bus stops on the way!!!

 It's good fun doing this!!!

 We saw some pretty things in shops too!

 I like that tree!

 There's lots of bus stops on this road, which is good!

 And lots of trees in windows!!

 We had gorgeous weather today.....

 We saw a big Christmas tree at Palmeira Square.....

 And then we walked up to the park.....

 And up to where Mum and Dad live.  We had a ton of food there and lots of fizzy champagne too!!!  AND lots of presents!!  It was great fun!

 After that, we packed up our presents and had a walk back through the park to come home!

 And lost a few more weathergrams on the way!!!

 The tree at Palmeira Square had its' lights turned on when we came back!!!

 And got home just in time to see the sun go down!!!  What a lovely day!!!

Andrea got a box of four horror DVDs!!!  Those look really scary!!

 And we also got the Nosferatu DVD.  Apparently that's famous.

 And here are the books that we got.  I think we're going to be busy reading!!!

What a fun day out!

We got more cards!!!

 We got a letter all the way from Australia!!

 Christmas card from Emily!!

 This one was from American, from Ajdin!!

 His card had lots of pictures on it!

 And a family pawtrait on the other side!!!

 This one's also from America!!

 It's from Buttons!!!

They sent me a tree decoration!!!  A tree to go on my tree!!  I love it!

Thanks everyone!!