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10:00 AM April 2, 2021
Goslings Farm s donation to Henley House care home, in Ipswich, included an array of different bulbs, seeds and plants
- Credit: Greensleeves Care
A farm shop and garden centre has made a large donation of bulbs, plants and seeds to an Ipswich care home - to help its garden flourish in time for summer.
Henley House care home made the request for new plants in its garden to give residents a bright and colourful outdoor space, which helps their overall wellbeing.
After a long and hard winter, the garden at the Greensleeves Care home - which specialises in dementia care - was also said to need some attention.
February 24, 2021
Louise (Marin Ireland) and her brother Michael (Michael Abbott Jr.) return to their family home when they receive the news that their ailing father (Michael Zagst) is dying. They find their mother (Julie Oliver-Touchstone) acting strangely, and when an unexpected tragedy occurs, the siblings start to fear that there is an evil inside the house that is targeting the family. As they struggle to tell the difference between reality and hallucinations, Louise and Michael are thrown into a battle against a dark force.
‘The Dark and the Wicked’ is from writer/director Bryan Bertino who is perhaps best-known for writing 2008 horror hit ‘The Strangers’. With Bertino on board, I had high hopes for this film, expecting another twisted and shocking story that unravels slowly over the running time. That, at least, is how ‘The Dark and the Wicked’ starts out, gradually chipping away at the audience and unsettling them as Louise and Michael walk slap bang into the mi
Woof. What a year. I’m not one who subscribes to the idea that a calendar change will automatically mean bad times end, but I’m still glad to have 2020 in my rearview. Not even counting the bad things that happened in my own personal life, the world in general either went to hell or the hellscape became more prominently displayed. Don’t worry, I’m not going on a rant, but I am definitely glad 2020 is no longer a thing.
And on top of all that, we at 411 lost Larry Csonka, a friend of mine who encouraged my work on this column. He enjoyed these end-of-the-year lists I do and particularly enjoyed it when I watched weird B-movies. I wrote about that, in the tribute we did, but not about how unusually hard it hit me because well, that column wasn’t about me. But yeah, Larry was a guy I got to know in the process of working with him seven or eight years, every weekday morning. I considered him a friend and for him to just suddenly be gone was numbing.
Directed by Bryan Bertino.
SYNOPSIS:
Two siblings discover that their home has been taken over by a dark presence, as they mourn their father’s painful passing.
That old phrase ‘Abandon hope all ye who enter here’ taken from Dante Alighieri’s
Inferno would have been an apt tagline for this film. Also, it would have functioned as an effective way to warn all viewers in advance regarding the bleak nature of the movie in general. Because in all honesty, this is one devastatingly bleak and overwhelmingly dark affair, I kid you not. The story follows two siblings as they journey back to their ancestral home, a secluded farm in a rural town, to mourn their father’s deteriorating health status. It is a trying time for all present, as they put aside their individual differences to tend to the needs of the now-ailing patriarch. But their miserable situation is further complicated with their mother’s increasingly volatile mental state and her sudden demise the next day followi