evacuees

my cousin Clare (left) and sister Paula (right) gamely accompanied me to an alternative valentine night organised by Edinburgh's other cinema / future shorts crew in the out of the blue drill hall. A vintage evening of lovely dressing up, lovely wartime era grub and lip-trembling screening of Brief Encounter, that most terribly terribly English of romances.

I don't know if everyone will get the incessant tea drinking, repressed inner voices and precise manners. Many of them are hilarious now.
lines like,
"I wanted her to die. Not really to die but for the incessant noise to stop"
"But I was hysterical and he was a true gentleman to the end and didn't show a jot of it. Not a jot"
"Darling I met a strange man today and went to the pictures"
"That's nice dear"
"stop beautifying yourself and get me my dinner."

Brilliant evening and just the tonic at the mo. I got to wear my fancy vintage 50's dress and feel a little bit movie star. Everyone looked amazing!! there was even proper popcorn from a proper popcorn lady.