Our standard 'Sunday activity with guests' is to take them down North Street for a coffee and to see the market, but today felt like we were going down a once familiar street for the first time all over again. We headed into our nearby zero waste shop to have a browse and a Scandinavian homeware shop for decorating ideas. Once we got to the market I became smitten with a pair of mittens I simply had to buy. A delicious coffee from Sweven is always the icing on the cake, our guests really had the best of Bristol this morning.
After waving off their Megabus Rebecca and I headed to the cinema for the first time since the beginning of Lockdown to catch the latest Bond film No Time to Die... And it was totally fine. I forgot just how much baggage the 'Craig Canon' Bond films come with. In Specter names of characters, organizations etc ballooned into a mental mind map that was frankly, tedious to keep track of. Here they understandably tried to put a neat little ribbon on all the plot threads, the problem being it's hard to remain invested in the story after a 5 year gap - especially when those elements are boring to begin with. Occasionally there was some fun action, the first hour was full of car chases and shootouts that had good energy. But then the film remembered it had to tie up all it's story elements from the previous film and got bogged down in Bond Baggage. It'll sit comfortably in the middle of the Craig Bond films.
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