Today we went to a special kind of shop that, despite my belief that it had become extinct many years ago, still exists. If you are willing to look hard and long enough.

In this shop you can find modern and old films in the form of DVD’s. If you find one that appeals, the owner of the shop will lend it to you for a sum of money (usually disclosed on a sign somewhere within the establishment). The recipient of the (hopefully entertaining) film then has twenty-four hours in which to watch the film, before returning it to the pleasant person behind the counter of the shop from which the DVD came. If the person whom is to recieve the DVD has not yet risen to open the shop then a handy deposit box is usually available to accept and secure the film on the tardy shop owner’s behalf.

It is both quaint and reassuring that such shops operate in the age of downloading and streaming, and, in our case, we were gladdened to peruse and gain access to a DVD that we wanted to watch: UP.

It does not happen very often that we as a family sit down in front of the TV to watch a film together. The coming autumn weather will probably kindle the urge to view more films, and we hope to catch up on the many motion pictures that have passed us by the last few years.

Good film, by the way.