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Sophy is the younger of our two cats, having just turned 1. She is a very pingly, long-legged, short-haired tortie who loves to sit on the bean slab in the living room where she has a good view of the TV. She sometimes likes watching it up side down.

This morning she has just exhibited some more than usually cute, and unusual behaviour that seems to further confirm her love of movies and TV shows. We have a sort of DVD shelving nook in one corner of the room, with an arm chair in front of it, and she bounded up on the back of the chair mewing and then stood up on her hind legs with her front paws resting on the shelves before starting to peruse the DVDs’ spines; chirping as she did so. This went on for about 3 minutes until she decided that I obviously wasn’t getting the message. She has now settled down on the arm of the chair, possibly waiting for a more intelligent human to come along and get down the movie that she wants to watch, which given where she was snuffling with her nose seems to be ‘Annie Hall’.

Not that I can blame her; she probably wants to watch it for the Lobsters.

We have so got to find ourselves a baby-sitter for May.

I’ve just seen the trailer for the new Indiana Jones movie and I am bouncing about as jazzed as I was when my dad brought me home from seeing Last Crusade and I proceeded to reenact the entire movie for my mother in the dinning room.

Even though Jon and I watch a fair number of movies, we haven’t in fact been to the cinema since we saw Revenge of the Sith. No, it wasn’t a case that that put me off the cinema, but nothing has really clicked enough with us that we had to have the “In the Cinema” viewing experience.

However, this film, we must go and see, and with a brand new baby, we will probably welcome an evening/day out and all you can eat Chinese buffet. I’m also hoping that our local Cineworld in Stevenage will run a marathon of thee previous movies. When the deplorable Nemesis came out the only good thing to come of it was that they did a special where for one day they showed all the even-numbered (read, great and less crap) Star Trek movies, and you got a free ticket to see Nemesis. In the end we weren’t well the day our Nemesis tickets were for, but it didn’t matter, we’d had a great day watching movies with a small number of equally-hyped people and the atmosphere was fantastic.

I’m just now hoping that I don’t have to wait for too long before John Williams’ sound track is released…