2014 — 9 November: Sunday
The rain has left mist in its wake1 and I have another fancy lunch to look forward to, it seems. Mustn't get too used to this :-)
Looking back...
... it seems I was once a dedicated follower of fashion, and didn't always simply wear white polo shirts2 at the weekends (or indeed throughout the week) — as is my current (forgive the pun) habit. Some evidence is contained in this blast from the past that Gill dug out...
... from gawd-knows-where and emailed to me yesterday. She's carbon-dated it to 1987, somewhere on the banks of the Itchen near Twyford. Who am I to disagree? It occurs to me that I may have a few similarly ancient photos of young Gill salted away in my digital vaults.
Lunch, from which...
... I've just returned, was in the "Ferry Inn" at the Elephant Boatyard in Hamble. A new venue for me, I hafta say. The youngsters have now set off back for the Smoke, taking with them both the breadmaking machine and an unopened bag of white flour (dated 2007). Plus a few of the DVDs that have been supplanted by Blu-rays. Excellent result. We drove back through torrential rain but the sky is again blue. Delayed April showers, perhaps?
Back to my peaceful existence. Young people have an excess of energy :-)
Harking back...
... to last Friday's kitchen sink tannin-removal exercise, the eventual solution turned out to be a combination of biological and chemical warfare. The biological component is partly the elbow grease eventually exercised on the chemical component — a gooey paste formed from dissolving a washing machine 'biological' tablet in a tiny bit of water and leaving it in the bottom of the sink to soak up the ambience of the surface layer of crud before giving it a bit of a scrub. The chemical component is whatever lurks within said tablet.
I suspect...
... my email exchange this evening is self-explanatory. It's evident I still need a system, too.
Glad you enjoyed it. For some reason it is almost totally overlooked. In fact, the only DVD I could find when I bought it was a region 2 NTSC ... something of a rarity. The only people I know who have actually watched it are people I recommended it to. On 09/11/2014 21:56, David Mounce wrote: > I'm pretty sure it was you who mentioned this film to me back in April > 2012. I got a DVD for £2-37 and then forgot all about it until tonight, > when I reached it in my stock-checking exercise, looked at the cast, > whacked it on to the Oppo, and thoroughly enjoyed it. > > A cracking little gem of a film.
The film is question? "Montana" (the 1998 version.)