Watching "The Legend of Barney Thomson" ...

Last night, I saw The Legend of Barney Thomson at The Rex - 

Robert Carlyle played a sad nervy barber, cutting brylcreamed hair with murderous scissors in a Glaswegian edgeland - 

Emma Thompson played his monstrous raddled mother, who cut up men after shagging them in the high rise - 

I gazed, fascinated, at the bleak vistas before me on the screen - 

Ferocious grannies played bingo in a brutalist bingo hall - 

Pale angry men in trackies haunted empty streets - 

Roy Orbison crooned Blue Bayou whilst Barney dragged a duct taped body to a loch - 

A loathsome sidekick sported a ruffled shirt - 

Before watching the film, I drank a bottle of Wainwright in the cinema's tiny bar - 

A half moon hung in the sky over the roof tops - 

Anne was at book group - they were discussing Far From The Madding Crowd - 

One of the group said that she thought Jeremy Corbyn was scruffy - 

There were uneasy chuckles when Anne mentioned David Cameron and the pig - 

13.30

Friday 25 September 2015

The Old School House

East Stoke

Dorset