Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Thank you, ogm.

Bags I have bought a neat little box for posting the DVD. Perhaps you could PM me an address. Do pass it on if you like, I shall label it as I would like it back at some point. ( The box can be used over and over!)

Will wait for it to come on cable tv

pedant alert! on to not onto

Eek!

I was wondering about reading it just yesterday. Even read some reviews on amazon, but plumped for the marigold hotel instead. If no-one has claimed it yet, I'd be interested in borrowing it, ogm. I'd send it back or onto someone else. Perhaps I have something to send you too??

Prepared to post it to anyone to borrow!

Ganja it also turns up as a cut-price DVD, I have it and love it (£3.99 and worth every penny!)

Hi crimson, fellow KST fan. That was Keeping Mum wasn't it? With Maggie Smith, and a very cringe-making Patrick Swayze! It turns up on odd tv channels from time to time so other Gransnetters might like to keep an eye out for it.

I enjoyed the book more than the film! Goldengran but there were a few 'laugh out loud moments in the film' (see Ganja's comment above). That said it was a pleasant way to spend a wet Wednesday afternoon AND our lovely local cinema only charged us £4.50 with the option of a cuppa!

I hadn't realised Kristin Scott Thomas was in it until I was having a coffee at our cinema the other night whilst waiting to go to the theatre and they showed a trailer. She's my favourite actress at the moment, and I first started to like her after seeing her in a black comedy with Rowan Atkinson; one tends to think of her as playing tortured souls but she does comedy very well.

Oh do go. I haven't laughed so much in the cinema for ages. The first half, with all the civil servants passing the buck to each other, was hilarious and Kristin Scott Thomas scorching round Whitehall as the Prime Minister's Press Secretary was out of this world. I bet she enjoyed playing the part. Once they got to the Yemen it all became just a perfectly nice little rom-com, but it's worth it for the first half alone.

I loved the book and was looking forward to the film, but having read/heard various reviews have decided not to waste time and money on a cinema trip. When it eventually comes on tv might record it for a wet afternoon!

Well its a nice enough film and its been raining hard this week so not much else to do but go to the flicks but if the budget is tight or you have better things to do I would wait for it to be on TV possibly at Xmas or Sky Box Office would be cheaper- the cinematography is not all that brilliant you will get just as good an effect on TV. I definitely thought they could have made more use of the views esp the Scottish bit.

I loved the book, and am in two minds as to whether to see the film or not.am not suresusiecb if your post is encouraging or off putting!