2009 — 28 March: Saturday
By some mysterious process, I was listening to the one o'clock news on BBC Radio 2 about 25 minutes ago. I've spent a goodly part of the evening getting back "into" Battlestar Galactica, the viewing of which got badly derailed when Christa became ill in mid-2007. It's time for another photo though I am, alas, now nearing the end of the unpublished ones of her. (I've published 360 or so since she died.) Here's another one from the "bijou" kitchen in Old Windsor back in the late 1970s:
Christa in Old Windsor, late 1970s
What a lovely smile. So another day bites the dust, Christa. By the way, your decorative Japanese cherry tree is once again showing signs of blossom. I shall have to nip out with the camera before too much longer. Not tonight, though — it's cold and rather wet out there! G'night.
Brian Matthew (again)! on the radio
Must be Saturday morning. It is — very cloudy, some sun, some wind, not raining (yet), and shortly after the uninspiring 9 o'clock news. Welcome, first cuppa.
I thought beauty was supposed to be in the eye of the beholder. The opening paragraph of this review suggests the reviewer thought John Updike thought so. Meanwhile, thank you Mr Postie for dropping off both welcome news of a tiny twitch downward in the interest rate on one of my "credit" cards (to a mere 18.9% APR) and an intriguing variant on Pink Floyd's The dark side of the moon (purists avert your eyes):
Magic.1 Meanwhile, here's an interesting experiment...
Now all I have to do is find the rest of Posy Simmonds' new set of drawings celebrating Midsummer Night at Glyndebourne...
There's another here.
200,000 books?
I touched on good writing yesterday. Now here's a different approach! I shall ponder anew over breakfast.
Barely a minute...
... before I start the cooking for my lunch. Steak, mushroom and red wine in a pie with a dollop of healthy peas and a small dollop of unhealthy microwave chips. Yum! And there's a smidgin of blue sky visible out in the great outdoors, too. Still pretty cold, though. I should be satiated, as it were, by about 13:45 and can barely wait.
Just popped out to assess the photograph-ability (photogenic-ness?) of the Japanese cherry blossom, but got sidetracked by this bit of the corkscrew hazelnut:
Oddly enough, Kroke's track "Earth" is playing as I publish this. It's 16:17 and, after a tiny bit of hail, the sky is now blue except for a few fluffy white bits. I shall celebrate with a cuppa, while pondering whether the yellow thing I captured can really be a tulip this early. I know it's not a daffodil...
If only I could ask Christa!
Later
I think it's time to let my PCs cool down while I go and grapple with a bit more from Battlestar Galactica. It's 21:57 and time for a change. I thought the "Archive on 4" programme on vinyl sampling was completely fascinating, by the way. (I assume they've changed the name of this from "The Archive Hour" because they now offer a shortened repeat later in the week... truth in advertising, and all that.)
The Humax hi-def satellite PVR gets its first serious exercise tonight, recording two episodes of the werewolf / ghost / vampire series from BBC3 and Annie Lennox in concert on HD with some overlap between recordings. We shall see what happens.