Hello world

The luvvies have descended darling... and the town is the star of the new TV show Downton Abbey starring Dame Maggie Smith, Huge Bonneville and someone else who I have been told is famous but didn't recognise.

The reality is that the production guys took our lovely village green bit in front of St Marys and turned it into North Yorkshire. A stretch in my view but I am sure those guy know what they are doing.

I have just spent another two hours of my life giving 2001 - A Space Odyssey another go. I think to review it here is simply not fair. This film was made in 1968 when I was one. Man had not yet stepped on the moon and all our lives had been taken over with a science fiction frenzy. You just needed to look at the cars, the fashions and the optimism at the time. There is no doubt that this film influenced many modern film directors. James Cameron robbed whole sections of score for his Aliens movie, every British child's favourite film maker Gerry Anderson must have based UFO on what he saw in 2001. The wonderful end title score by Barry Gray is so reminiscent.