Hello! Thankyou very much as always for the kind comments....Yes, I also fill up the cat bowl in the evening, but its never enough!! Miffy wakes me up every morning at about 4.30 - 5 for food( I have to stand nearby) and then to open the front door to let her out. Sometimes she just sticks her head out the door, looks around, then comes back inside...then wakes me up again just when Im dozing off to make me open the door again! So I understand all your stories with naughty Tomy!...Anyway, Im going to sleep now(Miffy sleeps on the cushion nearby), so thankyou again, and take care always, hugs and xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxalways, Ann

Hi!!!! I love your new painting!!!! I am sure that you will have the best painting in the exhibition!!!! You always put your hear and we can see it!!! Tomy is heathly but still very very naughty! He sleeps many hours in the morning and at night he jumps in the beds and he plays with our hair, noses.......my daughter closes the door of her room, but i can not do the same.......so he always comes at 5 and he plays with everything is out of the blanket! At the end he jumps in my stomac.........and i get up to put him food. After that he sleeps, me no! I always put food before i go to sleep.....but it is never enough........ Anyway, have a good night! Love xxxxxxx

Hell! I am always thinking of you too, even if we dont chat - thanks very much for you messge! Ive only just got up...Miffy also wakes me up about 5, for the friskies and to go out, then I sleep again and wake up a bit late - esp as its cold here in the mornings too!! Im glad Tomy is keeping up to his naughty tricks because that means hes happy and well! Here, all's the same. I have to think what to put in the exhtbition, if Im doing a new special painting, putting everything in it as I do, I'll have to start this week. The subject is not suitable for me, but I thought to do Joseph and the pantomime - but how when I cant show his face???I will be thinking about this...Anyway enjoy your Gerryvids! I will watch the vid later to relax, I havent time now. Take care, love and hugs alwaysxxxxxxxxxxxAnn

Hi!!!! How are you???? Tomy is still very naughty........he wakes me up every f......n day at 5, he is hiding my daughter's things,,,,,,,,, when i am cooking, he still jumps on the kitchen........but i love him, i adore him! Nothing new from here, the same every day. It's extremely cold etc etc I watch G's vids, only with him, nothing else, but not very often. I am always thinking of you!!!!!!!! Lots of love xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

You're welcome! :)

...allowed Norman to visit Joseph while he lived permanently at the Hospital. And when Norman took Joseph's side after he refused to go to the Hospital for more of those humiliating public exams in front of Treves eminent colleagues( before Joseph lived at the Hosp), Treves really got angry. Its said it was Treves that got the authorities to close down the Whitechapel show...In Treves' writings he does make some mistakes, some just probably genuine, not obviously ''hateful'' like that about Norman. For eg. when he first saw Joseph he didnt wear the cloak and veiled hat, though Treves describes it at that point, when it was later the hat was specially made for Joseph. He saw him in a coat, hat and scarf - which was wrapped around Josephs face...I dont think Bytes first name's ever mentioned in the film - I'd have to check!

What I meant was, the Bytes character seems to be based on what Treves wrote in his Reminiscences. Wrongly, Treves describes, on first seeing Joseph, how Norman spoke to Joseph as though to a dog, and gave the impression that he ill- treated Joseph. Of course this is completely untrue - Norman was kind to him and respected Joseph. He was initially appalled at seeing Joseph, and at first didnt want to employ him ( perhaps he felt he was exploiting him??) - but Norman saw how desparate Joseph was to work, and took the risk in employing him...It's clear that Treves and Norman( in reality) had ''issues. Treves never...

does it mention bytes' firstname and btw how come tom norman is called bytes in the film did treves do a lot of mistakes.

... which I know personally has upset has least one of Norman's descendants - this should be put right! Also that Joseph's mother never loved him and abandoned him - which is just not true. She really was an angel for him...Theres a lot to discuss! Of course I can imagine if youve only just watched a bit, that Bytes beating Joseph is really upsetting - but whats worse is that his father really did. How could he do that, his own son, and looking as Joseph did? It's beyond words....You say a bit more about what parts moved you, or even angered you now, and I'll respond. :):)

Hello! I've actually got the film downloaded into my computer!!! But seriously, the film raises lots of conflicting feelings. Of course, its wonderful that the film brought Joseph's story to a world-wide audience, and there are some moments in it which you really feel that youre witnessing a part of Joseph in real - the little scene for eg with the dressingcase is lovely, while of course sad too, knowing Joseph actually did pretend to himself like that that he was ''a man about town''...But I feel some scenes were invented for further pathos and totally unnecessary, and just sadistic in my opinion - I think you know the ones. And of course some bits werent correct just because the film was based on Treves Memoirs, and they were in places not correct, or embellished. His slur upon Tom Normanin his treatment of Joseph is terrible, and this is transplanted into the film via the Bytes character...