In a round of golf where your choice of clubs is restricted (in the interests of having fun!) the choice of weapons is critical.  I blame my high score on an unwise choice which saw my ball whizz across the green and off the other side then back again just too often.

The back and forth motion was not unlike that of a typewriter carriage.  In the high speed typing competition that features in Populaire such a motion at speed was instrumental in seeing our heroine triumph.  The film is an engaging, albeit predictable, romantic comedy that jerks a few tears when it wants too and raises spirits as and when required and has the de rigeur happy ending.

It's amazing how many other dramatic forms follow a formula.  Aristotle said there were only two stories.  Later thinkers have gone for more.  Rudyard Kipling got as far sixty nine but seven is a popular number.  Could that be one for each deadly sin?

I'm not sure if we saw all seven stories in the ten films from Edinburgh College of Art that were chosen for screening at the Filmhouse last night but it was an altogether excellent and varied set.  Like the Edinburgh college students whose work I saw a couple of weeks ago the inventiveness and talent (both technical and artistic) on display was impressive.

I missed the equivalent screening from Napier but am looking forward to seeing what the Queen Margaret students have produced.  I hope the students from all four institutions manage to find a decent outlet for their abilities after graduation.