2011 — 17 February: Thursday
In the end1 I watched, not "Larry Sanders", but Monday's delivery of the strange and rather endearing "Brilliant Love". I found it very interesting, risible in parts, but worth watching. In fact I've just (00:40) finished watching the "making of" featurette. The film struck me as very much like a visual representation of the sort of short stories someone like Ian McEwan was writing nearly 40 years ago. Good (and unusual) to see a film made and set in Northumberland, too, and with a largely unknown cast.
Time for some more of that sleep stuff.
Brightly dawns...
... etc etc as a lady warbles her tonsils loose on BBC Radio 3. It's just after 08:10 and, although I know there was just a news bulletin, I absorbed precisely nothing from it. I was reading about the rising costs of elderly care and the frozen capital thresholds before the local authority steps in. It's a good job dear Mama is blissfully unaware of all this as she'd otherwise worry herself sick.
Where's that cuppa?
Sun is still out. I've scraped the ice off the car. I've yet to pack a lunch as I don't know our walkies destination details. The day is young. And I discovered a nice tax rebate on my doorstep (along with other goodies) about nine hours ago — whatever I'd been doing, I obviously didn't hear Mr Postie's acoustic signal. No matter.
Details sorted: Hinton Ampner here I come. And then tomorrow, the Midlands! What an exciting life, heh? [Pause] Six somewhat sunny, occasionally muddy, rather chilly miles later I'm now (13:27) back and contemplating lunch to go with my coffee. Lists to make, tasks to prioritise. Busy, busy.
I have no idea why I...
... waited quite so long to re-acquaint myself with the five Simon & Garfunkel studio albums from (except for the last) the 1960s. Gorgeous stuff. I won't even ask why the track on the earliest album is "The sound of silence" (which strikes me as logical) whereas their second album makes it a plural (which does not).
The CDs contain a total of 13 bonus tracks. Not too shabby for an outlay of £20. Right; the first CD has finished. Time to nip out on some errands. It's 14:25 and still sunny.
It seems cyber crime...
... pays. "The £3.1bn annual economic cost of cyber crime to UK citizens includes an estimated £1.8bn for identity theft and £1.4bn for online scams." (Source.)
Signs of Spring?
They don't make road signs like they used to!
