Tag Archives: Movies

Secrets At Sea: Day 2 Black And White Photo Challenge

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Sherri Matthews

Next week, Hubby and I will celebrate our 9th wedding anniversary. Bitterly cold on our wedding day, we didn’t mind because one week later, we climbed onboard the cruise ship Arcadia, and with full steam ahead, sailed out of Barbados … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog Hops, Family Life | Tagged Arcadia Cruise Ship, Bench Photo, Bench Series, Black & White 5 Day Photo Challenge, Blog Hop, Caribbean, Family Life, Honeymoon, Movies, Photography, Tell 5 Secrets Blog Hop, Titanic | 86 Comments

Crazy Alien: Bite-Size Memoir

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

Whenever I think of anything to do with immigration, I get a shiver of crazy. My first brush with American immigration happened when I turned up alone at Dulles International Airport newly arrived from London. It was 1980, my boyfriend … Continue reading →

Posted in Bite Size Memoir, Memoir, Travel | Tagged Alien, America, Bite Size Memoir, Cinema, Citizenship, Emigration, Immigration, Ipswich, Memoir, Movies, travel | 92 Comments

Jurassic Park, Graduation And Goodbye To A British Icon

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

Kindness. Thoughtfulness. Compassion. Words we all know and understand and hopefully act upon as often as possible. Yet while bombarded daily it seems with news reports of terrifying and sickening acts of violence, depravity, murder, and unimaginable human suffering from … Continue reading →

Posted in Family Life, My California | Tagged Boxing Day Tsunami, Brighton, California, Dinosaurs, England, Family Life, Graduation, Grief, Jurassic Park, Kindness, Movies, Richard Attenborough, University of Sussex | 79 Comments

Six Degrees of Separation and Thank you Todd Fisher

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

This is how the story goes : Me to my kids: “I once met Clint Eastwood while horse-riding in the Hollywood hills with your father. He was coming towards me on his horse and as he passed by he tipped … Continue reading →

Posted in Family Life, Memoir, My California | Tagged California, Carrie Fisher, Celebrities, Clint Eastwood, Family Life, Freddie Jones, Liquid Metal Guy, Movies, Six Degrees of Separation, Steve McQueen, Todd Fisher, Tom Cruise | 95 Comments

Cornwall, ‘Rebecca’ and a Homecoming

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

Well, Thanksgiving has been and gone (I hope you all had a good one!), my son Nicky celebrated his birthday in style and we spent a wonderful weekend with some very special people at their lovely home in Cornwall. To my … Continue reading →