Thanks to UNISON being on strike in Haringey yesterday, I finally managed to take the kids to see Spirited Away.

It really is a fantastic movie. When it ends and you come back to the beginning, it seems like the beginning was a long time ago and that an awful lot has happened since then.

I didn't think the kids would enjoy subtitles so we went to the Coronet in Notting Hill, which was nicely nostalgic (even though it's changed a bit since our day, including no longer allowing people to smoke) only to discover that Time Out had made a mistake and it was subtitled after all. I'm glad because I now know that subtitles are no problem for them and also because the word is that the dubbed version is a bit dodgy, for example translating what should be 'sorceress' as 'witch' and what should be 'gods' as 'spirits'. I have no way of knowing whether that's right but I prefer the subtitled words anyway.

It was also interesting introducing the kids to the concept 'rush hour' when we took the tube home.

B-)