Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue - a Review

Beguiling and charming, sweet and fun; TinkerBell and the Great Fairy Rescue shakes off the recent film animation trends to appeal to a wide range of audiences through multi layered languaging and gags - instead focusing on being a great childrens film; one strictly made for kids. 

Even the most sensitive young child would find it difficult to find any fear factors hiding within this gorgeously presented movie. Colours are vibrant, detail is sharp and the story so playful, it is certain to be a film which will be played over and over.

The story is set years before Tinker Bell meets Peter Pan, Wendy and the Lost Boys. Fairy friends visit the Victorian meadow lands where Tinker Bell meets Lizzy, a little girl whose belief in the power magic and  fairies is ridiculed by many.  Although her friends believe Tinker Bell has been captured and puts into place a daring rescue, Tink develops a special bond with  Lizzy, seeing that she and her father are in need of some magic of their own.

As you'd expect from Disney, it's a charming tale playing on the childhood hope of meeting magical creatures at the bottom of the garden; where both parties push the boundaries of their fears to discover new strengths.

An absolutely stunning production, devoid of high profile names, this totally inoffensive movie is one of the most delightful films I have seen specifically made for children for years. This is a must see for fairy believers of all ages.

The DVD is available in Australia from the 15th of Sept.  Check out your local variety stores for availability.

Doing all the right things

A great thing, I guess, is that we KNOW what to do in order to support optimal health... doing it however, is the challenge.

Over the last year, we have really slipped in our eating habits.  Certainly last year was a time we ate almost 100% raw foods and I kept my Raw Foods Blog up to date with all my recipes.  Life just.. slipped on; I got slack and it just was 'easier' to eat conventionally. i guess now I am paying for it with a boot up the bum.

So its back to those principals.  At least they are not foreign or new.  I feel sorry for anyone who may be totally new to the cancer situation and faced with not only the emotional dramas, but the realisation that really nothing will be the same again.  Food is so intrinsically wrapped in our culture, our psyche, our sense of belonging and identity; its little wonder it all gets too hard...

So we are doing the 'right' things.. and as a family. We are under no illusion that it will be a 'cure'.  No amount of wheatgrass shots and major dozes of Vit C and D are going to do that.. but instead, are supporting all of our immune systems, building resistance and health for what is to come.

It was kind of nice too, to settle down to a better dinner table. We had kept up our juicing habit - even while eating pizza!! and the kids are pretty daring with the beetroot, celery and apple or carrot juices. Guac is always a fav at the table. I've known for a while I need to get back into my habit of wheatgrass shots and green smoothies - so will do so in earnest tomorrow.

Time to pull our the dehydrator, start making my flax seed crisps and the blender for my raw desserts... Am thankful that it is coming into summer time - so much fruit to choose from as well. Sprouting jars to be cleaned out and readied and blender full of soaking nuts for tomorrows health smoothie.

The kids are a bit grumbly; but have a pact with them that they can at least have non raw foods for school lunches.  Its impossible to pack a raw foods lunch in Queensland for school in anycase.  With school bags out in the hot sun - yuck who wants to eat a limp salad?

Who knows, I might even start my raw foods blog again.

Time Bomb Ticking

Adrian has been busted out of hospital and now asleep in his own little bed..

He is feeling pretty woozy with the drugs - understandably as it is meant to sedate and dampen brain activity.  Long term this is not a solution; but for the time being, it will control the seizures and perhaps give some respite to the stress surrounding them.

I’d like to add that I still cannot beat him at scrabble…

The nuros have done their job well and are probably feeling frustrated that we have ‘ignored’ their advice.  Certainly this is a time that tests ones resolve and commitment to the natural therapies.  Its early days yet, but I have had some feedback filtered back to me - by loving and well meaning people - who are horrified that we would not consider the chemo treatment.  If surgery and Western medicine is what you know - then you will go back to that comfort zone; and with all the love I can muster, I thank them for their concerns - knowing that it is just concerns - but that Adrian needs to make his own informed decision.

We’ve done the research before - but both anecdotally and tested - facts remain. Cancer suffers die. We all have a choice on the quality of the breaths we take - so why fill your body with toxins and live in a hospital?  Just been onto a website about Chemo and it had some FDA supervised clinical trials listed. pretty scary to see that they ‘boast’ that  9 % of patients are cancer free after their toxic treatment..ummmm 9%?  the rest?  Probably dead.  and of the 9% - they have to go back for further treatment in 5 - 7 years.

There is a reason why patients generally do not survive brain cancer and tumours: chemotherapy can't get into the brain due to the blood brain barrier, and radiation simply destroys the brain itself.

Adrian says that he has a time bomb in his head. Its been there all along; but asleep.  Its now woken up and ticking pretty loudly.

Which leaves it to ‘other’ options. Anything non toxic and supports the immune system will be a good start.