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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
    A bit less than 6 months of recording available.

    That'd be a lot of monkeys.
    Two hundred and ten years’ worth, as they do twenty thirty-minute episodes a year

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      Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
      Now watching BBC Scotland - Inside Central Station all about Glasgow Central train station.

      Episode 1 expires on Tuesday, so get in quick!

      Reminds me of a friend of mine who wrote a song about Belfast Central.
      …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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        Tea has been a roast lamb dinner, and it was absolutely delicious

        The half-shoulder joint Sainsbury’s sent was about twice as big as I’d asked for, but it was well worth it as it was full of flavour

        I think I’ll use the bone and the rest of the meat to make scouse. There should be a few decent portions out of the large amount still left.

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          Entertainment: bits and pieces of stuff, can't settle with anything much.

          Started with "The Human Stain" with Anthony Hopkins and Nichol Kidman which got turned off after 40 minutes or so.

          Then on we went to David Stratton's Stories of Australian Cinema which was inneresting in parts and tedious in others, though we did make it to the end.

          Then on to Civilisation E11 "The Worship of nature" which, rather than being replete with howling Germans or Italians, is replete with fecking poetry from the likes of Wordsworth, read by C. Day Lewis.

          Since I detest most poetry this is currently paused to give me a little rest from it.

          Only another half an hour to go.

          I suspect that I've not enjoyed "Civilisation" in quite the way I enjoyed "America" or "The Ascent of Man", probably because I'm a philistine.

          And an engineer.

          E12 is entitled "The Fallacies of Hope".

          I'll drink to that.
          Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 17 May 2020, 22:10.
          When the fun stops, STOP.

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            Tonight’s reading was The Valley of Fear, being one of the two-stories-for-the-price-of-one Holmes novels. Having investigated the background to the American-set part of the story, which it turns out sprang from Doyle’s acquaintance with Pinkerton of detective agency fame, I found the literary device less irritating this time

            Goodnight all

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              Morning all

              Overcast out there. Likely to rain I suspect.

              Back to 5 days a week billing

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                Morning all

                Weather - light cloud, 12 degrees, should warm up nicely

                Breakfast - usual

                Lunch - Spam, fried rice
                Married

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                  Morning all
                  CBS, etc.

                  Just been distracted by two red kites and a buzzard circling.
                  …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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                    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
                    Morning all
                    CBS, etc.

                    Just been distracted by two red kites and a buzzard circling.
                    There's a dead cyclist close by isn't there?

                    Morning all

                    Dry.

                    Cool.

                    Sunny.

                    White sky.

                    Telex machine much too clean again.

                    Monday.

                    Various of the literati busily pontificating on the wireless.

                    When the fun stops, STOP.

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                      Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
                      There's a dead cyclist close by isn't there?


                      Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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