I was interested to read this article about how Icelanders are trying to stop Alcan from expanding their smelter any further. It seems that it is destined to become an election issue. Why the heck should this Canadian company be there in the first place? So we can have more aluminium foil?

Last Sunday, I went to see the film Snow Cake after some plans to do something else were cancelled. I'm glad I did.

It's funny how it's taken so long to get to my neck of the woods however, it started showing at one of the local small theatres that shows some great film. In case you haven't heard, it stars Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver and Carrie-Anne Moss and it's about a man who, after picking up a hitchhiker, gets into an accident that fatally injures the young woman. After going to meet the girl's mother, he gets involved in her life and the life of the small town of Wawa, Ontario that she lives in. There's some great acting and it is both bittersweet and amusing.

I must say that I became quite aware of the generation gap between myself and the young people working at the theatre. When told that this was going to be a great film by the concession stand kid, I told him that I was a huge Rickman fan.

The kid said to me, so I suppose that you've seen the Harry Potter films to which I responded that I had as well as a whole lot of other films he'd been in. He asked me "like what?" and I started to list them off. His reaction was that he'd not seen any of them - definitely giving me a clearer idea of his age. "Wow, was he really in Die Hard?"

Just goes to show you that, no matter how old you are, there is always some kind of age gap. Go figure...