"They are used to cold winters and they hibernate through them.". What was once the world's largest hippopotamus herd has declined by 95 per cent, the World Wide Fund for Nature said yesterday. But how the lizards came to the Bournemouth area remains a mystery.Chris Gleed-Owen, a herpetologist, stumbled across the reptiles, which are larger than any native British species, on his way to work. "I was walking along the cliff when I happened to spot some lizards and I noticed that one of them was a green lizard," he said. "It was amazing really because it was about 100 yards from our office at the Herpetological Conservation Trust and nobody had seen them. The males grow to about 30cm long and are a vivid green colour with blue throats. The nearest one to me is the Bradford-on-Avon Film Society, which is always having good film evenings I've been meaning to try to join it for years.
Perhaps I'll read this piece in the paper tomorrow and shame myself into doing so More from Miles Kington. A colony of lizards native to continental Europe has been found for the first time in Britain. The species, usually found in southern countries such as Spain and Italy, is believed to have established itself during this year's long hot summer. You've probably got one near you, even if it's only a film society.
I like the fact that when his newsletter comes, its categories tend to be "Best Films Of The Month", "Load Of Rubbish", "Hardly Worth Slagging Off", and "Pointless Remake".I like, above all, the fact that even today there are still places like the Little Theatre and On The Video Front battling against the mindless moneybags of Hollywood. Musicals are bad enough on stage, but on film they're a blot on the face of civilisation. And all that phoney sub-Bob Fosse Cabaret song-and-dance schtick is strictly for the shallow-minded. OK, I grant you that Evita was worse, but really this should be avoided like the plague."I really warmed to Phil Raby when I read that There's a man who still cares about films Or cares enough to be upset by the bad stuff.
Here's what he said:"The most bizarre Best Film Oscar nomination in living memory. All long gone, long gone.So, the courage, if not madness, shown by places such as the Little Theatre in Bath in showing only films that it likes deserves to be recorded.Perhaps they come in pairs. In Bath there is also a video shop called On The Video Front, run by a man who likes good films better than bad films. When I couldn't find a copy anywhere of the Fran?s Truffaut film Day for Night, he was the man who located a copy for me. (Most video shops I know wouldn't have the faintest idea who Truffaut even was.) Phil Raby has taken his love of films to new lengths recently by advising customers not to borrow certain movies that he thinks they won't like.To put it another way, he has recently started issuing a monthly newsletter on e-mail that does a rundown of the recent video releases Recently, for instance, they put out Chicago on video.
