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Dec 12, 2020 11:20AM
Watching for the 100+ time, 'Magnificent 7' (orig,). My favourite film of all time. Faultless.
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Post Soviet wrote: "It was nice sunny day today, so risked a little by breaking travel restrictions, leaving our county borders (not much though) and making trip to Cavan Burren Park. Stunning views & picnic, yay..."You have to sometimes. It's good for the head.
Just finished watching 'The Raven', starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, from 1935.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026912/...
Serial wrote: "Anyone seen 'Cloud Atlas'? Might watch it tonight.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_A..."
Cloud Atlas is brilliant (apart from some of Tom Hanks's accents). Have you read the book? - Also brilliant.
Gordon wrote: "Serial wrote: "Anyone seen 'Cloud Atlas'? Might watch it tonight.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_A..."
Cloud Atlas is brilliant (apart from some of Tom Hanks's accents). Have you read..."
Yes, brilliant indeed, just finished watching it.
Will have to hunt the book out too
Finally got a Christmas Tree. Looks perfect now with just the lights, kids are yet to destroy it with decorations. :0
I've had mine up since Halloween. It's got that many decorations on it this year that D said he's surprised the branches don't snap. 😬🎄😬
Collette wrote: "I've had mine up since Halloween. It's got that many decorations on it this year that D said he's surprised the branches don't snap. 😬🎄😬"Halloween!
Fks sake.
My choice would be Christmas eve :0
Leave the trees in the forest where they belong.
If ever we need a mid winter celebration, it's this year.I intend to start Christmas day with a whiskey coffee.
Had me choppers looked at. I had an appointmet for some work scheduled for the Wednesday of the first week of lockdown in March and to compound things a cracked crown which was due to be fixed disintegrated at the end of the week before lockdown! Luckily the dentist remarked from the x-rays that I'd had root canal work which I couldn't confirm but I must've since it's barely given me any pain or discomfort other than when a big nut from the muesli gets wedged in the caldera of the former tooth. Anyhoo in the 9 months I was waiting and they were holding £60 prepayment the practice seems to have changed hands and a new dentist hired so he looks (very tentatively) into my gob and says what the previous dentist said only he can't see anything wrong with one of them so I had to tell him to look up the x-rays and sure enough we agree that the same work is necessary excepting he's just going to leave the stumpy one as the only alternative is an extraction.In order to go to the appointment I had to consider what to do with Minnie - she's fine in the car if I pop in to Tesco for 20 mins but when I first got her and had to do the full shop she was shut up in the kitchen for nigh on 2 hours and tore off an area of wallpaper which further endeared her to the wife. I'd bought a crate but not tried her with it - in the end she jumped straight in and was fine when I got back.
In order to tire her out a bit I went down to Cleethorpes beach and the sunrise was spectacular - there were a couple of photographers down there to capture it. Minnie's coming to the end (I hope) of her first season and we were down there on Sunday morning with her off lead. First a neutered female was persistently trying to hump her but then this huge off-leash rough collie bounds up, gives her a good sniff and then she runs off as I'm chasing her and the brute, presumably an entire male but I couldn't see under all that hair, persistently humps her with is owner trundling down the beach screaming, "Bad dog, bad dog ......" to entirely zero avail. I don't think they 'locked-on" but it wasn't a comfortable experience. Anyhoo there we were again this morning walking happily along, Minnie attracting more than passing sniffs up the Khyber when all of a sudden I see a dog heading towards us. Looks familiar I think to myself and, before the penny dropped that it WAS the same dog, the whole farrago begins again with Minnie quite knowingly trying to get far enough away to get it on with some significant stooping required on the part of the 'Bad Dog'. Laddie's owner hadn't learnt any new or more effective lines either and then when we both catch up and retrieve our hounds she says, "I've got to get to work yet"! Minnie's not neutered because, and I didn't realise this, vets won't do a bitch until they've had their first season so she'll be spayed in Feb, what's Mrs Bad Dog's excuse? Minnie was on-lead for the rest of the walk.
Sunrise over Cleethorpes beach (but more like summer since the sun rises much closer to the pier at this time of year) - https://www.bing.com/images/search?vi...
Derek wrote: "Leave the trees in the forest where they belong."Most of us these days use fake ones, Derek.
Collette wrote: "Derek wrote: "Leave the trees in the forest where they belong."Most of us these days use fake ones, Derek."
Fk that, we have a proper tree, dying a slow death and then being dismembered and left to rot.
Collette wrote: "Derek wrote: "Leave the trees in the forest where they belong."Most of us these days use fake ones, Derek."
You're at that age, C. It's nothing to feel embarrassed about.
There's no Whiskey to be had sat on the Naughty Step ;o>
I thought that a lot of places specialised in the growing of Christmas Trees these days? Those Trees don't really belong in a natural Forest here, do they? - when they are deliberately being planted and grown for the purpose of cutting them down in around a decade's time?I don't like the idea of bringing about the death of a beautiful living thing ... but, then again, most of us buy specially grown Plants and Flowers from Garden Centres that are definitely not always being bought with the intention of them having a natural, long, and fulfilling life elsewhere ... and most of us also often like to buy Cut Flowers from Shops as well.
Artificial Trees made of Plastic, PVC, Metal, Tinsel, and Fibre Optics don't tend to age all that well - they inevitably take on a tired and crushed look and have a habit of fading in colour in places within a few years as well - which means that they need replacing and the old Trees all end up in lasting for forever in a Landfill Site instead of being chipped and turned into Mulch.
I think, given the choice, I'd much prefer to still occasionally buy what we always used to - a small Live Tree with Roots that can be planted outside afterwards and reused year after year as it continues to grow. We have still got five of these growing in our Back Garden ;o>
We started with getting Artificial Trees about a decade ago - because M&D became fed-up of having to hoover up the regular scattering of Pine Needles that a Live Tree will drop. We are already on our third Artificial Tree now and are needing to replace it with another one for next Christmas, if we can, in the Christmas/New Year Sales.
suzysunshine7 wrote: "There's no Whiskey to be had sat on the Naughty Step ;o>"I know. Such rudeness. 🙄🙄
Still waiting for my new Brexity passport to be despatched. Apparently it was printed and sent to the dispatch department last Wednesday. When I rang them on Monday I was told that because of Covid social distancing and the fact that they were very busy they had a big backlog. It seems that the despatch process mimics that of the fifties (a Brexit thing I guess), manually stick Passport in envelope and then stick an address label on it before sending a telegram to the courier booking a collection for a week on Tuesday.
Sending a telegram? Are you sure you don't mean a pigeon?
Will your next doggie have dual nationality too, Derek?
Lez wrote: "Will your next doggie have dual nationality too, Derek?"He'll be French with a French Pet Passport. Actually, we won't have dual nationality, since I couldn't pass the tests, Su probably could if she wanted. We'll just be officially resident in, and paying taxes in France. That is enough for us to be able to avoid the visa issues of Brexit.
Gordon wrote: "Sending a telegram? Are you sure you don't mean a pigeon?"Or a runner with a message in a cleft stick!
Just checked my mailbox and discovered that my 'must be signed for' new passport must have arrived while we were out for our morning walk.Despite being signed up for text and email updates it's just turned up out of the blue (or is it black?).
I have to say it looks like it's been produced pretty cheaply. Doesn't seem as good quality as my old EU passport.
They're made by a French company aren't they? Either revenge on les rosbifs, or British bureaucrats going for the cheapest piece of crap on offer. The second would be my guess.
Lez wrote: "They're made in Poland."By a Franco-Dutch company.
Are Brits still meant to be getting blue passports after Brexit?I hear they'll be a full centrefold photo of Nigel Farage, nude except for a strategically placed Mackerel.
It's a rather strange passport. It has a rather bad picture on the first page and a transparent circle near the bottom of the page, through which you can see the central part of a rather better picture on the page directly behind it.No idea why?
Oh, and it still looks black rather than blue. At least you can fit it in a pocket unlike the enormous old style passport.
Got basically all of my big housework finished now. Just to clean the bath after my shower, hoover and put fresh mats down. Only other plans today are sitting on my ass and watching The Muppets Christmas Carol tonight.
"Just to clean the bath after my shower"christ, that time of year already?
parp.
Collette wrote: "watching The Muppets Christmas Carol tonight."I was so sad when my kids grew too old and cool to watch The Muppet Christmas Carol. Then again, they had watched it about half a dozen times every Christmas up to that point.
And I don't miss them watching MTV/VH1 Christmas hits over and over again for weeks leading up to Christmas. I have almost recovered from that now, although I would still happily take a string of tinsel and strangle anyone who plays East 17's antonishingly crap Stay Another Day. What I've noticed now is supermarkets playing recent cover-versions of Christmas hits that are even worse than the originals. The other day it was some impossibly insipid version of Wham's Last Christmas: how did someone manage to record a version of that song that was wetter than the original?
Tech XXIII wrote: ""Just to clean the bath after my shower"christ, that time of year already?
parp."
Boom Boom! Best look out Mr Matey and Duckie! 😝
Gordon wrote: "Collette wrote: "watching The Muppets Christmas Carol tonight."I was so sad when my kids grew too old and cool to watch The Muppet Christmas Carol. Then again, they had watched it about half a do..."
I'll never stop watching it. One of THE best Christmas films. Gets a playing every year, along with White Christmas, Scrooged, Home Alone 1 & 2, and my favourite slasher movie of all time - Black Christmas. Just peed off with myself that I forgot to look out National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation before I blocked the dvd cupboard with the Christmas tree.
The 'less sad' version of Stay Another Day' is a lot better. One song I never tire of is I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day.
Gordon wrote: "Collette wrote: "watching The Muppets Christmas Carol tonight."I was so sad when my kids grew too old and cool to watch The Muppet Christmas Carol. Then again, they had watched it about half a do..."
One can never be too old or too cool to watch The Muppets ;-)
I love Muppet Treasure Island too.
Collette wrote: "One song I never tire of is I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day..."There's a terrible cover version of that, too. Don't know who it's by, but it's another one that was playing in Sainsbury's last time I was there.
I was forced to endure a terrible cd of xmas songs this morning (Ok, it started off ok, but rapidly went into a tail-spin). Amongst the horrors were a poor cover of that Mariah Carey tune by Ariana Grande, a dismal version of "I wish it could be Christmas every day" by Girls Aloud, and an equally dismal version of "Last Christmas" by something called Samantha Mumba (sp?), so I was informed.I wish I could be given control over what was played in stores and radio at xmas just for one year. A veritable smorgasbord of delights would be proffered up for your delectation. 😂
Seriously? ... I'd give just about anything simply to be able to get to go out and actually do some shopping in a real shop rather than a virtual shop. And they could play anything they like ... even Cliff Righteous Richard or Chris Da Bloomin' Bleurgh at full blast at me ... and they STILL wouldn't be able to break my spirit or wipe the huge smile off my Face - LOL!!! ;o>
Gordon wrote: "Collette wrote: "One song I never tire of is I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day..."There's a terrible cover version of that, too. Don't know who it's by, but it's another one that was playing..."
Sarah Brightman's version on 'A Winter Symphony' is rather painful on the ears as well.
Anything by Sarah Brightman is painful on the ears.
Derek wrote: "Anything by Sarah Brightman is painful on the ears."...together with Katherine Jenkins and the dreadful Lesley Garrett.
All their voices are just that tiny bit off key.
Agree, Derek and Lez. Charlotte Church doesn't appeal to me either.
.....mrs tech is THE VACCINATOR! or she will be when programme is set up. she was also on a panel interviewing retired health professionals who wish to contribute. i can't get my head around the initial estimated time frame of 4 months to vaccinate just those in target areas, another 2 months after that of 'mopping up'. the team to number around 160 individuals!
"Charlotte Church doesn't appeal to me either"naw, since she put on a bit of weight she's become quite a broadChurch!
(the views expressed in this cheap shot are not neccessarily those of the writer)
Re Charlotte Church, I only have "Enchantment". Beautiful album.
Tech XXIII wrote: ""Charlotte Church doesn't appeal to me either"naw, since she put on a bit of weight she's become quite a broadChurch!
(the views expressed in this cheap shot are not neccessarily those of the wr..."
Fat, Welsh and wailing.
What's not to like.
"Fat, Welsh and wailing." - with harpoons?
Brass Neck wrote: ""Fat, Welsh and wailing." - with harpoons?"If she goes on a Japanese tour and has a salty dip, she'd best watch out for harpoons.
Todays dinner. Loin of Venison, with mushrooms and red onions, finished off in stock and served next to baked potato and butter.My kind of food.
Got given some homemade Mince pies today, oh my....divine...think she must have put lemon in the pastry maybe? Is that a thing? Anyway, just delicious.
Got a few last minute bits in town, boxes of biscuits for various neighbours, some Whiskey for a friend..... Bushmills....he'll be happy.
So Charlotte Church isn't a size 10 or 12....crime of the bloody century!! Look at yourselves in the mirrors folks. Adonis's you ain't!
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