Curious Incidents of a Flailing Mermaid

Christmas Soundtrack Day 4 - it is time! Love Actually time!

It is only day four of this blogging challenge, but so far I have changed my mind about which track to showcase each and every day. I did promise you all a more uplifting track today and I think I will deliver.

I feel much brighter today. Thank goodness. I spent time with Chris, who took today off work. We don’t get much time together during the week, so it was nice. He took his driving theory test today and passed! He’s one step closer to driving. I also got to drive his brand new Golf GTI around all day. I cannot tell you how jealous I am of that car.

Chris has now gone away for the weekend, so I have two days of uninterrupted peace. I do love time to myself, its good for me.

He went to a wine tasting last night. He got too drunk to buy me nice wine but he did bring my back a bag of cheese and bread. As you do! So, I decided to start my weekend with a feast of nice bread, cheese, oil and vinegar, wine (supermarket crap) and chocolate hobnob biscuits. I am now suitably full.

To go with my feast, I decided that it was Love Actually time. Love Actually is the only Christmas film I actively set out to watch. No Christmas is complete without me watching it one or two times. I remember seeing it at the cinema with my, then, best friend. Since then, I’ve probably seen it about 80 times.

On that note, I present today’s track…



Love Actually facts…

The “Lake” that Lucia Moniz and Colin Firth jump into was actually only 18 inches deep. When filming, they had to walk on their knees and pretend they were swimming in deeper water. Unfortunately for Firth, the water was covered with mosquitoes. The actor was badly bitten, and had to seek medical attention for his elbow, which swelled to the size of an avocado.

Emma Thompson had a hard time filming the scene where she holds up two Barbie dolls for her daughter’s friends Christmas presents. That’s because the dolls weren’t Barbie, but Ken dolls dressed in drag.