Oscar fever

INTERNATIONAL seafaring charity, Sailors’ Society, have been running a good scheme.

Last week they ran their Wear Your Woolly Hat Week. It finished on Saturday (February 13).

The idea was that employers encourage their staff to take part and send a donation to the charity.

Money from the week will be used so that woolly hats can be purchased and distributed to ill-prepared seafarers.

A woolly hat has been essential in this recent cold weather and it helps you to keep warm, as a lot of heat is lost through the head.

The Sailors’ Society campaign distributes 20,000 hand-knitted hats to sailors.

For more information on the Sailors’ Society log onto www.sailorssociety.org

Meanwhile, the nominations have been announced for this year’s Oscars, which will take place on Sunday, March 7.

Avatar, which I have not seen yet but want to, has nine nominations and amazingly Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds has eight. I thought this was a good film but not one of his best.

Christoph Waltz who is up for Best Supporting Actor in that film deserves an award though as his performance was very scary.