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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
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'
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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