As I mentioned in a recent blog post, I spent a couple of days in hospital being treated for a skin infection. I’m back at home now, and although I have not been doing a great deal of reading, what I have been doing is watching a whole lot of movies. Chariots of Fire. I’m not certain if I had seen this before, but I had a real hankering to watch the Oscar winning movie about two very different British Olympian hopefuls in the 1924 Paris Olympics. This film was sheer perfection, from the casting to the script to the cinematography to the music. I loved every moment of it, from the opening scene with the runners running along the beach to Vangelis’ stirring musical theme to the heart lifting final race. I definitely have visions like Mr Bean at the 2012 London Olympics of running down that beach with the athletes. Go watch this movie. Now. A Walk in the Woods. The second movie I watched was A Walk in the Woods, an adaptation of Bill Bryson’s travelogue about hiking the Appalachian trail, starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte. This got pretty mixed reviews in the cinema, so…