Sukkot and stuff

http://www.aish.com/holidays/sukkot/default.asp

http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday5.htm

Jewish Year 5766 : sunset October 17, 2005 - sunset October 24, 2005

I know Sukkot has now finished, but I thought I'd write about it anyway! Well, I'm not going to write all about it because you can click on the links above if you want to find out about it in depth. We had a CCJ meeting last Sunday, which was good, although we didn't get much sorted out because we started late and there was a Succah party straight after, which people had started arriving for. We did get to eat Kosher Haribo though, so all was not lost. There is a study tour to Israel/Palestine in December (28th - 5th Jan), organised by the YES (youth) section of CCJ, which should be really good - I went on a similar trip in 2000, which was brilliant - probably the best thing I've ever done. Just thought I would get a plug in there! For more details click here and have a look at the CCJ website.

Clocks went back this morning, so we got an extra hour in bed, but it got dark early, and it will continue to get dark earlier and earlier, until December the 21st or thereabouts - the joys of going back to Greenwich Mean Time.

On Friday I watched possibly the cheesiest film I've ever seen - The Librarian: Quest for the Spear, starring the lovely Noah Wyle (ex-ER). It was made for US cable TV and it shows, but although it was awful it was awful in a so-bad-it's-good way. It's actually had some surprisingly good reviews, and it is a lot of fun, as long as you don't take it at all seriously. In all fairness, it does not take itself seriously at all, and Mr W is obviously playing his character with tongue firmly in cheek and a twinkle in his eye. We (a whole group of librarians!) sat through it cringing at some points and groaning in others - but overall we were smiling, so I guess the film acheived its object. The plot is basically Indiana Jones meets The Mummy, with a librarian as the hero. Unfortunately for librarians, the film doesn't exactly sweep away the old librarian stereotypes, but at least it says that librarians have to be educated, and of course he turns out to be a hero in the end. How could a librarian be otherwise? For some reviews click here