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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostAnd now it keeps going dark and the rain is teeming down
Just to rub it in, like.
T6 home again home again, jiggety jig.
This driver deigned to stop for me which was nice.
Rather more comfortable than the X8.
Tea/dinner was M&S battered haddock.
It was nice.
I'm not used to this rather newer frying pan which is a bit more efficient than the one I consigned to the recycling a couple of weeks ago after the coating started falling off.
The evening's epic is likely to be "Mission Impossible: Fallout(2018)" with Tom Cruise, being the latest in the increasingly ludicrous MI series.
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) - IMDb
Though considering the premise of yesterday's epic, maybe it's more solidly grounded.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Just spent over two hours working on the sliding block puzzle that is the living room, culminating in a trip to the tip with a couple of old bookcases - the small variety, they were, both tainted by the mice. So I also got to clean up the droppings left lurking beneath them, though at least there weren't too many, the minimal space having apparently been rejected as too small for a nest
One of them (the bookcases, not the droppings) was a cheap white thing from MFI, which my parents bought for me in 1982 when I was a student. I'd had a brief holiday job in MFI, doing customer surveys during the week after Easter, so the manager gave us a staff discount when they got it
Anyway, it's given excellent service in the sense of not falling apart at any time during the last 37 years, though it's been disassembled and reassembled a fair few times, and it's outlasted the store itself by a few years too. But now it's down the recycling, on its way to be transformed into something else - possibly another bookcase, at least in part. Ave atque vale!Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostJust spent over two hours working on the sliding block puzzle that is the living room, culminating in a trip to the tip with a couple of old bookcases - the small variety, they were, both tainted by the mice. So I also got to clean up the droppings left lurking beneath them, though at least there weren't too many, the minimal space having apparently been rejected as too small for a nest
One of them (the bookcases, not the droppings) was a cheap white thing from MFI, which my parents bought for me in 1982 when I was a student. I'd had a brief holiday job in MFI, doing customer surveys during the week after Easter, so the manager gave us a staff discount when they got it
Anyway, it's given excellent service in the sense of not falling apart at any time during the last 37 years, though it's been disassembled and reassembled a fair few times, and it's outlasted the store itself by a few years too. But now it's down the recycling, on its way to be transformed into something else - possibly another bookcase, at least in part. Ave atque vale!Comment
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostThe evening's epic is likely to be "Mission Impossible: Fallout(2018)" with Tom Cruise, being the latest in the increasingly ludicrous MI series.
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) - IMDb
Though considering the premise of yesterday's epic, maybe it's more solidly grounded.
The Edge (1997) - IMDbWhen the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostAs it transpired, at 141 mins it wa too long, so this evening's epic is "The Edge (1997)" with Anthony Hopkins and Alex Baldwin.
The Edge (1997) - IMDbComment
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Tonight's tea has been M&S breaded cod (I think; I threw the box away ages ago, so it might have been haddock) with chips and beansComment
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"The Edge" is worth a look.
I've seen it before, but it was worth the extortionate sum of £1 to watch it again.
Two runs through the WM done, the shirts and the darks, so tomorrow is cottons, which takes knocking on for 3 hours just for the wm bit.
TFBSZ.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Tonight's entertainment was a rewatch-plus, and a rewatch. First up: Avatar (2009), but this time the Extended Collectors' Edition or some such, which basically adds in an extra scene at the start and then includes slightly longer edits of various other scenes. Still, I do like it; the first half is mainly hippy-dippy harmony-with-nature stuff against a cinematic backdrop of every album cover Roger Dean ever made and quite a few he didn't, and the second half is all-guns-blazing, all-bows-flexing, all-huge-animals-charging warfare against the same backdrop. What's not to like?
And then, by way of contrast, The Big Short (2015); proof that you can make a highly entertaining film out of the intricacies of the global financial system's failings. I always enjoy the fourth-wall-breaking in this one, particularly when it concerns some scene so outlandish that you assume it must have been made up for cinematic purposes, then you're told "He actually did that"
Goodnight allComment
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