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  Perfect Days Flick and Ful Thu 31 Mar 2005  

Thu 31 Mar

I meet Katy at the French Cultural Centre for the weekly movie. This week it is Louis Malle's Atlantic City – a film I remember seeing when it first came out in 1986 - 19 years ago (Katy would have been seven, oh the tears of an old man). Though the dialogue is in American English, there are subtitles in French and I appreciate, possibly for the first time, what an elegant, romantic language it is – just the way things are phrased comparing American English with French it was like mono versus stereo or monochrome into colour.

Afterwards we stop at a roadside café for ful and rice pudding. It is nice to meet Katy like this, I always feel we relate so much better than when we are in a group. I remind her it would be my birthday the following week and we wonder how to make it special. Maybe the film had featured a white table-cloth, candle-lit dinner, with wine – I'm not sure – but anyway we conclude it would be nice to go out for a posh meal – she will definitely come and she offers to put the word around.

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