2012 — 12 January: Thursday
One of my favourite ways of being woken in the morning is by somebody bringing me a nice cuppa.1 Failing that, a knock at the door marking the delivery of something I've ordered is perfectly acceptable, even though I had twice to reassure the nice lady from Yodel that I was delighted by the early delivery (an advantage of being retired, of course, is that I set my own agenda) of yesterday's parcel.
The sun was (almost) briefly visible but is now once again hidden by clouds. Now, about that tea, Mrs Landingham... You can't go out on any adventures without a cup of tea, can you?And breakfast.
I presume if...
... I owned a Kindle, this page turner would be slightly unnecessary?
"Bones" by the way was, indeed, what was in the earlier delivery. A mere 5,631 minutes, though I don't yet know whether that includes the extras and the variant episodes.
Back from Soton, and
... having lunched, I can report my first two acquisitions (in Waterstone's bargain basement):
I've been reading Stewart ("Media Lab") Brand for over 33 years. No reason to stop, so far. And nearly four hours of Douglas Adams for £7-99? No-brainer.
Finding a couple of Blu-rays in HMV at "2 for £15" was just icing on the cake. My first copy of "Chasing Amy" was an expensive Criterion LaserDisc imported from the Land of the Free2 shortly after we'd watched it in Harbour Lights, in a very sparsely-attended screening. Joey Lauren Adams is extremely easy on the eyes. As for "Payback"... having recently mentioned the other variants of this Donald E Westlake story, I thought: "Oh, why not?" It was either that or the new version of "Brideshead Revisited" and I think it likely I'd prefer the Jeremy Irons TV version.
Happily, the yellow quarantine (or is that "plague"?) flag flying over Roger and Eileen's house has finally been hauled down, so their Tea Shoppe is re-opening for a chat there later this afternoon. I must first sort out the next book to take over with me for Eileen to read. In fact, it's nearly time (15:30) to get my act in gear.
Later
Having made and consumed my evening meal, and done the dishes, before allowing myself the pleasure that follows business (as it were) I've now watched both episode #11 of Season 4 of "Castle" and the 2005 pilot episode of "Bones". Though I enjoyed both (very much) I'm prepared to state for the record (as it were) that the latter had the better plot. Not to mention more forensic jargon. Most interesting.
More tea, Mrs Landingham?