Would you trust this woman with your children?

Vicky Rose Chandler has been entrusted to take 16 16-year-old English school kids into the wilderness of Honduras, which we recently learned is the second most poverty-stricken country in Central America. Seriously though, Vicky's scored herself an awesome job trekking through Honduras and helping out local villages - all with a pack of students in tow - and I'm green with envy.

We saw her off at the airport on Saturday for her flight to London and she might not be back for awhile, as she has an open return ticket for the next year. So we will miss Vicky, even though this visit was fleeting. Keep in touch Vix, and I hope learning the lingo is not too horrendous! Please come back with all 16 of them. Don't sell them for some local cocaine or anything...

Simon Wiesenthal. Sniff.

From a rant about a bad flick to a rant about an amazing one. Tim and I watched the first of the Film Fest ones that I'm reviewing, called I Have Not Forgotten You, about Simon Wiesenthal, the Nazi hunter. I know there have been millions of films/documentaries about the Holocaust but this one still managed to amaze me - he's got a fascinating life story and I hadn't ever read much about him before. Well worth a watch if you want a film which stays with you for a long time after you've watched it. I was bawling my eyes out by the end of it. This isn't saying much I guess. I tend to cry in all good books and films. And when watching strangers say goodbye at airports. And when lonely people call talkback. And when Jessica Simpson makes a movie. But still, this was truly tear-jerking!

God save us

Wow. Jessica Simpson has made a movie (produced by her creepy dad) that's so bad that when watching the trailer, I actually thought she'd made some sort of mock film parody situation - like an SNL skit or something. But no, it's real. Unbelievably, she's managed to rope in Luke Wilson to play her love interest! I know the Wilson brothers aren't exactly Clint Eastwood, but crikey! Have some respect. Hope they didn't waste too many millions on it. Those Africans are still starving as far as I know!

Check out the trailer