Oh B.Hive......

I saw an article in February's edition of the Living etc Magazine as I was quickly carrying out the first pre-browse of the magazine. The reason it caught my eye because it was something that was in Bristol!! Ever since Living Etc adopted their London Directories it has felt like the rest of the UK has become some what isolated for the tender interiors magazine. But this article did mention Bristol so I read on... the next thing I noticed was women only! Now I work all day every day in an office full of smelly men and when I am not stuck in the office I am at meetings with them or on a building site being harassed by men... so needless to say I was interested in the members only club in the article. Hee Hee! This post so far makes me sound like some kind of high class hooker, I am afraid that isn't quite the case I am simply a structural engineer working in the male dominated construction industry.

Anyways the article.....

 

So I googled this club in the hope it was somewhere I could go to with my girlfriends for endless pampering sessions. But I was wrong, quite wrong! It is an even more unusual concept called B.Hive, with venues in London, Manchester and Bristol that provide tastefully decorated and styled corporate facilities for their female members to use to conduct business. Although I am forced to work in the boy dominated office with its blank walls, terrible coffee and hard lines I dream of being able to work in a relaxing stress free environment where my productivity has the constant support of quality coffee on drip feed, reliable Internet and communication facilities.

I think if this blogging was a profession and not just my hobby it would be the ideal place to go to separate work from home and make sure I crawled out of my PJ's every day, especially with their iMAC facilities for making movies for youtube. The £30 monthly fee is really great value considering the cost of  a good Internet tariff and daily coffees from Starbucks that would be required if I worked from home.

Other professions that might like the idea of this facility....insurance loss adjusters, recruitment consultants, independent financial advisers... if I ever get round to setting up my own design consultancy it would be a great place to use as a small but developing company.

What do you guys think?

You can find more information on their website here... bhive

Bye Bye Christmas :-(

I just thought I would quickly post a couple of Christmas pictures while I slowly and very sadly dismantle my Christmas tree....



Fare thee well christmas tree!




The yummy Christmas cake I made... Thanks Delia!!

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Welcome 2012....

Happy New Year everyone! I hope 2012 brings all that you wish for!

Kate
xoxo

011 Saturday Matinee

 Well it has been a while since I did one of these but I thought I would start off with my most recent trip to the cinema which was to see Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. This is the second in the series of Sherlock Holmes movies which stars Robert Downie Jr as the enigmatic and very eccentric Sherlock Holmes, accompanied by Jude Law at the put upone Dr John Watson. Whilst the hype had this movie dubbed as better than the first, I went into the cinema a little sceptical that this would be the case, you see I loved the first film it was the film that made me ever so slightly fall in love with Robert Downey Jr and his querky portrail of Sherlock. In that respect this film did not fail, Mr Downey was true to form with great support given by Jude Law.

 

Professor Moriarty played by Jared Harriswas the ever polite overly intelligent vilan, a great job with in my a opinion a very boring script and character development. He should be a super villan to end all villans intelligent, suave with an air of mystery but I just didn't get that in this film.

My favourite part of the first film was setting of the film in victorian London with all the hustle and bustle in the back ground and I am afraid that is what was a bit lacking in this, the more remote settings lacked the energy given to the first film. What was still true to form were the great victorian costumes especially those worn by Rachel McAdam's character, Irene Adler, I love that hat and the dramatic makeup.

 

By far the stand out best part of this film was the small role played by Stephen Fry as Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's slightly more put together brother who still lacked some of the social graces for normal society expectation. The comic timing in the delivery of Mycrofts lines was excellent.

  

 

All in all this was an entertaining movie and although it wasn't as good as the first one I still felt it was worth my cinema ticket and shouldn't be relegated to the "Oh well I will watch it when it comes out on DVD" pile. The costumes, action and cinematography were great, well worth a view on the big screen.