'You're a feckin' eejit!'

Sorry about my title. It was actually spoken by Judi Dench in Philomena but also it describes me perfectly as I realised I'd forgotten my passport when I printed off my boarding pass for tomorrow earlier. It's in my other bag on top of my wardrobe in Brum! I rang Glasgow Airport straight away and the man I spoke to said he reckoned I'd be OK with my cashpoint/credit cards and bus pass as photo id. Unfortunately, I look like the Mona Lisa on my bus pass. It's seriously scary and the eyes follow you around! I have to phone Flybe at 9am tomorrow when the desk opens to confirm.

Right. Back to today. Mom went to mass first thing and left me having my Sugar Puffs. When she returned, we ate a box of mince pies while watching episodes of Come Dine With Me while we waited for the rain to stop. It never did! At 2pm we went out with our umbrellas anyway as I wanted to get my train ticket from Ayr to Glasgow Airport (the ticket covers the bus from Paisley Gilmour Street to the airport) and also stock up on Scottish money! I took this picture sheltering under the gate archway of Ayr Auld Kirk.

When we were walking towards the station, I stopped outside the cinema to see if Philomena was showing. It was and the next showing was at 16:10 so we went to pick up my train ticket to kill time and then went back to the cinema.

There weren't many people in at that time. We sat three rows from the front. Mom said 'We'll be screwed if someone with a big fat head sits in front of us now!' She has a loud voice and an Irish accent so strong that you'd think she only just got over here from Killarney. The other people behind us all started laughing.

I guessed this would be a teary film as well as funny in parts but I started going weepy during the adverts for forthcoming films! There was a very emotional romance one with Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth kissing on a beach on a wild windy day. The umbrella blew away and you kept seeing clips of old steam trains puffing their way over beautiful aqueducts under blue skies. It was called 'The Railway Man'. Dearie me! I'd take a gigantic box of tissues if I went to see that. Hmmmmm.

Anyway, on came Philomena, the story of a woman played marvellously by Judi Dench wanting to track down the son she'd been forced to give up by the nuns. She was being helped by Steve Coogan playing a hard nosed journalist. Cracking film! The horrors of being an unmarried mother in a harsh Catholic Ireland 50 years ago was both tragic and hilarious. There was one line early on where a sour faced nun was trying to belittle the 'sinful' Philomena saying 'So did you take your knickers down?' which had mom in hysterics and I thought we'd be thrown out of the cinema if she didn't stop laughing!

Go and see it. It's great. I won't give anything else away!

Track? This song was not in the film but should have been as Phil Lynott wrote it about his mother - Philomena