The Weather and other Ephemera

So the hurricane was not quite as bad as expected in New York and the weather here in London has, apart from one very short sharp shower, been like a nice autumnal day. Someone said in April when we were sweltering in the sun "this is our summer so make the most of it as it will rain all July and August". How right they were. It was worse in the cinema where yesterday I saw The Skin I Live In, a bizarre, some might say sick, Almodovar film which keeps your attention the whole way through and makes you laugh from time to time for its preposterousness. Today I saw the Guard which did not really grab me until towards the end with the last twenty minutes or so, if you are prepared to wait until then, well worth having bought a ticket for. Sounds Irish? Well it is an Irish film. Odd though that both before the film yesterday and today instead of showing the usual British Board of Film Censors' Certificate categorisation of the film we had the Irish equivalent. Have we contracted out our film censorship categorisation work to the Irish or was it simply a mistake? Manchester United beating Arsenal 8-2 was also worse than the advertised weather. What is happening down at the Gunners? Has Wenger lost it or is this just a blip? I don't really care as I am not a footie fan but I have no time for Manchester Untied and its deeply unpleasant boss and lead players like Rooney. At least England beat Ireland yesterday in a so called Rugby friendly.