"Gone Girl" movie

 Hi there

Have any of you noticed that many of the actresses from Hollywood nowadays look sort of ... the same?

A few years back, I saw the movie "Gone Girl".  I am so embarrassed to admit it, but it wasn't until nearly the end of the movie that I had a sudden realisation about a woman in a lead role...

Throughout the movie I had been looking at two actresses, not one!  Every time I saw a blonde woman on screen I had completely thought of her as just the one actress playing one character.  Not two different women.  Indeed, I had been thinking that there was a heck of a lot of mystery surrounding her but, oh well, everything would be explained by movie's end.

So, do I blame the movie's editor, the writer, the cinematographer, the producer, the casting director, my brain?   Was it because both actresses had that blonde, slender, generic Hollywood look?; Probably.  But, i'll try to be more careful in future with my public  judgement.  Repeat after me now: all blondes do not look alike...

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Today, Monday 27 July.  I woke up to the freezing cold.  The tv announced that, around New Zealand, it was the coldest day so far this winter.  

I have a very warm house, today has been the only day this winter I put on a heater.

I rang up my friend. "I am sooooooooo cold."  I whimpered.  I was cuddled under my flannelette sheets, with my electric blanket full on. I was wearing fingerless gloves to hold up my Kindle.

But at noon the sky got blue and I decided I would go to the beach for a swim.  The young lady who swims most early mornings and writes the sea temperature on a board at Hataitai Beach, had scrawled up "7c".

!!!!!!!!!***??????

oh, well ....  I had a swim.  The water was extremely cold.