Four day long weekend seems so hopeful at the start. There were so many things I wanted to get done over the Easter Break whilst the rest of my family were off scouting including paint the house, writer quite a few words, do some craft research and learn how to convert word dox to html (there's online conversions for this - yay!)
Another thing was to find something really indulgent to watch and I did that with Flipped. I'd seen the movie come on Netflix recommendations quite a bit and it had a near five star rating so Friday afternoon, feeling a bit weary and exhausted already (just from watching my kids pack their bags for their camping weekend) so I snuggled up on the sofa to watch. OMG IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN FLIPPED YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS! I wrote that in capitals because if you were here in front of me I would have shouted it. Flipped is delightful, funny, heart warming and heart wrenching at the same time. It tells the story of Bryce and Juli who meet when they are about seven years old and Bryce moves into the house across the road. From the moment she lays on him Juli has decided that Bryce and his 'dazzling eyes' have her first kiss. But Bryce has immediately decided that Juli is annoying and pushy and spends the next few years avoiding her best as he can. Until of course they are teenagers, when things flip. This moving captures first love, first heartbreak, the angst of being a teenager and the role families and friends play in forming the people we become. It has lots of coming of age moments, including cringe worthy moments like a boys lunch auction (yes, auctioning off boys to have lunch with girls for a fundraiser) and the humiliating feeling of being caught in a lie. Flipped is a great movie for everyone and is cast beautifully. It's actually based on a novel which I am about to search Amazon for now. Thanks for stopping by, Wendy xx
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