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Lately I have been teaching for just two or three days a week with the rest off. I know how stand up comedians feel now. I either get them roaring with laughter and playing along with what I want or I get the class I like to liken to the retired sheep wrestling club in the isolated back waters of Wales. I tell the one about sheep and a lampost being a leisure centre in that area and the entire audience silently swears to tie me up to a lampost and leave me for dead or worse - to Owain the half man hunchback with a hankering for derrieres.

Still I get paid whether they like it or not (and mostly emerge breathing) and it`s fun. Most of the other time is free. Today for example we went to the excellent Virgin Toho cinema and had seating in the even better Premier room which features large reclining seats with extra leg room and a waiting room which brings to mind an airport. We were there to see 2046 a Hong Kong film translated into Japanese cunningly enough about the year 2046. Of course I do not understand Japanese (or Chinese) but that`s half the fun. Opportunities abound to make up translations to the dialogue and working out what is going on anyway.

I didn`t see the film in the end as Reiko`s gran has fallen ill and there was an emergency and we had to go, but I like those cinema anyway.