The Incredible Hulk, Omen, and some travelling around.

Three Sundays ago we went with our pal Hannah to see "The Incredible Hulk", which I'm happy to report was very good actually! Like "Iron Man", Marvel have made an entertaining summer blockbuster that features a great leading actor, this time Edward Norton as the scientist/rampaging green monster thing Bruce Banner. It was interesting to see the "Iron Man" link, with the cameo from Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jnr.) at the end. Some great visuals and a very watchable cast.

DVD wise, we are nearly through the "Omen" box set, which has been *fab*, with the exception of "Omen IV" which we turned off in about ten minutes -- it's a really dull TV movie with no budget and no class. Oh well. We'll watch the 2006 remake sometime this week. We also saw "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" which is a brainless comedy about Nascar racing, but we love Will Ferrell so it was pretty fun to watch! Sacha Baron Cohen is very bizarre as the French Grand Prix driver; his performance heavily influenced by Adam Sandler I feel.

A couple of weekends ago I drove down to my pal Gary's place in Essex. Quite an achievement as this was my first "big" drive! 2 1/2 hours each way on the motorways, thankfully they were pretty clear traffic wise. We saw "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" at the lovely old South Woodford Odeon and did a few other schlubby things at the house: eat, watch tv etc. It was nice to see him and Martin again. Martin is doing a great job with the garden.

Last weekend, Carla and I did another big drive, this time over to the Norfolk coast to see my parents. After all of these years on the train, I drove it and it was fine. Apart from doing some fun things near to my parent's place, such as a walk on Gorleston sea front and taking my father down to Yarmouth sea front (to see the construction of the new outer harbour) we visited Southwold (pic is of me on the pier) a pretty little town on the Suffolk coast, and then on the way back to here on Monday we stopped off in a couple of towns on the route: Beccles and Bury St. Edmunds. The Abbey gardens/ruins and the cathedral in Bury St. Edmunds were awe inspiring. Lovely part of the town that was! Thankfully, we had clear sunny weather all weekend. We will definitely go back there!