As I sit on the verandah at "Riverbend" on this beautiful sunny Sunday morning - one hour earlier than usual as today is the start of Daylight Saving Time - it occurs to me that this is not the first time that film-makers have left the best part of a book out of a film they made.
For me the best part of Nino Cullota's book "They're a Weird Mob" is right at the very end when he decides, "I will stop writing now ... and start wondering what I am going to do this afternoon", and then thinks, "There are hundreds of ways we could spend this sunny Sunday afternoon. Or we could just stay at home and do nothing, and perhaps that would be best of all. To rest on the seventh day. To thank God for letting us be here. To thank Him for letting me be an Australian."
Check it out for yourself! The film ends quite differently from the book, doesn't it? Not that it makes the film any less enjoyable. I'm going to watch it again, because I've got that Nino Culotta feeling right now.
