Scary and creepy, denial and disappointment...
Woot, it's Saturday, and we're going to go and see something non-challenging like The Hangover 2 - mixed reviews-and-all I'm sure it'll be a laugh.
Oh dear, big, big mistake to watch the first episode of Luther very late last night...omg, creepy and scary - was practically hiding behind the sofa - making the hubby very annoyed with my squeals and gasps! Loving Idris Elba as the troubled, macho, alpha-male detective.
On Radio 4 this morning (I miss Fi Glover) a woman was interviewed about her 46 year marriage to a man who was ‘in the closet’ - after he died she found all the evidence of his secret, gay life... but it turned out it wasn't really such a ‘secret’ as even she admitted it’d crossed her mind at different points that he was gay.
She went on to say that there are some things "people don't want to admit to". So during the marriage she was in semi--denial... she denied the full truth of what she really knew about him.
These sorts of interviews become a non-interview in my mind. If on his death she’d found all this evidence that completely shocked her, that she absolutely had no realisation that he had a double life, now that’d be an interview!
So it was disappointing and I'm not sure why the BBC had to send someone all the way to New York to interview her - waste of money.
TODAY’S THOUGHT: Ultimately she described a marriage in which they loved each other and it worked on many levels - the lesson here is that things often work well despite what logic dictates - you'd never think a straight woman would be happily married to a gay man for nearly 50 years!
What I take from this is a lesson I’m always banging on about - every couple should find their own path - - what works for their relationship... who cares what the neighbours think!
Weekend chores are calling - arghh!
Yet another summer tune alert: check out Thing Called Love - Above and Neyond/Richard Bedford – fab tune.
Have a lovely weekend, Pam x