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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    In the Chinese
    bloody hell! - is it saturday?- again?

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      Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
      I don't post stuff about meals because my cooking is such a disaster. Managed to cock up a baked potato tonight by putting far too much black pepper on it. They should appoint me as a TV chef, there would be a big reduction in obesity!
      I am generally inept in the kitchen too. That's why I found myself a chap who can cook

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        Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
        In the Chinese


        Glad to hear normal service is resuming

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          lewis was good.
          now yet more murdurs <in midsomer, the murdur capital of rural england>
          <och, jean>
          must watch Taggart again.
          Rioja almost gorn.
          be on the appleton estate soon, then 'hic'

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            Originally posted by BR14 View Post
            bloody hell! - is it saturday?- again?
            Apparently so

            Originally posted by ladymuck View Post


            Glad to hear normal service is resuming
            It certainly is - they were really busy with delivery orders, so much so that they apologised for not having time to talk

            Very nice as always

            On impulse, I got myself a pineapple fritter with syrup, which I haven’t had in many, many years - probably the first time I’ve had one this millennium. It turned out to be two of them and was very tasty, though I’m not that fussed about them and probably won’t bother again for ages

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              Entertainment (continued): Following on from what the Victorians did for us, was "Civilisation" E10 "The smile of Reason" which waffled on about Voltaire & all those French gits, then leapt across the Atlantic to waffle on about Thomas Jefferson, covering much of the same ground as Alistair Cooke did in his rather more inneresting series.

              To round it all off: "The Best of Frankie Howerd" half of which I'd watched in the "Up Pompeii" dvds, though it was amusing enough.

              Required FF to avoid some of it, namely Noel Edmonds and all his works.

              Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
              Tonight's first major motion picture was Stalingrad (1993), a German film about it being a very bad idea for Germans to go there; a sentiment with which the residents of that city seem to agree. Thoroughly bleak, as one might expect given the circumstances
              Oddly enough, the two copies of that dvd are sat on top of a pile right next to me.

              I might get a round tuit sometime soon.

              They've only been sat there for 3 months.
              Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 16 May 2020, 22:36.
              When the fun stops, STOP.

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                Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
                Oddly enough, the two copies of that dvd are sat on top of a pile right next to me.

                I might get a round tuit sometime soon.

                They've only been sat there for 3 months.
                It’s worth watching, but don’t expect it to cheer you up at all unless you stop it about three minutes in when they’re still enjoying the seaside in Italy before being sent East

                Tonight’s viewing, after an abortive attempt to watch Batman Forever which was terminated when I realised I wasn’t in the mood for it at all, started with Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), based on David Mamet’s play (he also wrote the screenplay) concerning the desperate existence of American real estate salesmen, trying to dupe people into buying tracts of land in Florida by lying over the phone. Not as bleak as being a German soldier in Stalingrad, but still thoroughly bleak. Remember, coffee is for closers

                And to follow, Green Zone (2010), in which Matt Damon plays a soldier who discovers the hard way that there never were any WMD in Iraq. I’ve watched this before, but it’s a good, intelligent thriller/action story and worth seeing.

                And finally, as I haven’t watched it in a while and it’s funny, S1E1 of I’m Alan Partridge, A Room with an Alan (TV Episode 1997). I wonder if the people at Monkey World have ever thought of trying to get any of their many groups of primates to play Monkey Tennis; it could turn out to be a ratings winner

                Goodnight all

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                  Morning all

                  Dry.

                  White sky.

                  Coolish.

                  Quite bright but sunless.

                  Sunday judging by the stuff the wireless has put out since 06:15.



                  Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
                  It’s worth watching, but don’t expect it to cheer you up at all unless you stop it about three minutes in when they’re still enjoying the seaside in Italy before being sent East

                  Tonight’s viewing, after an abortive attempt to watch Batman Forever which was terminated when I realised I wasn’t in the mood for it at all, started with Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), based on David Mamet’s play (he also wrote the screenplay) concerning the desperate existence of American real estate salesmen, trying to dupe people into buying tracts of land in Florida by lying over the phone. Not as bleak as being a German soldier in Stalingrad, but still thoroughly bleak. Remember, coffee is for closers

                  And to follow, Green Zone (2010), in which Matt Damon plays a soldier who discovers the hard way that there never were any WMD in Iraq. I’ve watched this before, but it’s a good, intelligent thriller/action story and worth seeing.
                  Oh, Glengarry is on one of the piles that progress up the stairs, leaning gently on each other for support.

                  "The Green Zone" is 3 dvds up from where "4 weddings" lived for all those years.

                  I may extract it.
                  When the fun stops, STOP.

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                    morning

                    overcast
                    not particularly warm
                    sunday
                    meh

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                      Morning all

                      Overcast but bright enough. Breezy. 11 degrees.

                      Rain forecast for the whole day but not yet started

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