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Very quiet in the pub tonight. They don't do anything big so it doesn't draw huge crowds any year, but it's even quieter than usual so far. Still, I brought along a book on the history of Windows NT and the music is all late Seventiesish classics (Psychedelic Furs right now), so I'm rather enjoying it
Boney M blasting out in the pub now. Brings back memories of scooting around in my mate's Morris Minor with their Greatest Hits blasting from the ghetto blaster on the back seat
Just remembered that when, in conversation over Christmas dinner, I mentioned Timothy West walking past one day as I was hanging around at the front door of Capital Radio on Leicester Square, my dad said that he'd been in one of his plays at the BBC. And here it is on the BBC Genome site: THE MUSIC BOX - BBC Home Service Basic - 11 June 1963 - BBC Genome
You don't get many of those around here it must be said, though I have met an indigenous Tarquin or was it a Quentin?
Many years ago now.
Last evening, having failed to get past 10 minutes in with HGWMV, we progressed to "The Lady in the Van" which was a bit dicey in parts, thereafter proceeding to view "The Gauntlet" which was suitably mindless but in a good way, though the ending was a bit odd.
I'm sure there's a scene cut from the dvd which explains stuff rather more graphically, but it's 40 years since I saw it in the kinema so that may just be a phantom memory.
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