Exercise done. Food eaten.
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostExercise done. Food eaten.
Footy done, home made pizza slices scoffed.
Shower timeComment
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Originally posted by FiveTimes View PostWSES
Footy done, home made pizza slices scoffed.
Shower time"You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Tonight's repast has been the last of the chicken korma out of the freezer, with the usual rice and naan to accompany it; and very nice it wasComment
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Whatever lurgy was afflicting me last night is still there, but it's keeping it very low key. I assume it's waiting for me to finish work tomorrow, so it has four days to really go to town on meComment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostApparently the BBC have a new adaptation of Waugh's Decline and Fall in the pipeline, so I'm getting the drop on them by re-reading it for the first time in God knows how many years. It's a wonderfully entertaining book; I suspect I'll end up re-reading everything else by Waugh when I've finished it
Ah. Robert 2527Pugh was in it, as I was reminded on Sunday when I watched "Vera".
Sword of Honour (TV Movie 2001) - IMDbLast edited by zeitghost; 29 March 2017, 21:29.Comment
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Originally posted by zeitghost View PostWhich are the wartime ones set on Crete with the mad major?
Ah. Robert 2527Pugh was in it, as I was reminded on Sunday when I watched "Vera".
Sword of Honour (TV Movie 2001) - IMDb
And there's the ones set in Africa; Black Mischief and Scoop, the first supposedly inspired by the early days of Haile Selassie's rule in Ethiopia, and the second by Waugh's experiences as foreign correspondent for the Daily Mail covering the buildup to the Italian invasion of that country a few years later
And there's The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, which is a near-autobiographical account of a novelist going on a sea cruise during which he gradually descends into insanity.
They sound like quite heavy going when described like that, but they're all really funnyComment
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Morning denizens
"Mostly cloudy" today, I am informed. From what little light is apparent in the sky, this is certainly the case nowComment
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