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Post by kathryn on Sept 27, 2018 21:34:05 GMT
I have not tried Riverdale yet but I just did, like, 5 episodes of Schitt’s Creek without even trying so I think I found my new binge-watch...
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Post by stefy69 on Sept 28, 2018 6:43:56 GMT
I have just watched Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, recently available on Netflix. Absolutely loved it, from the late 70s/early 80s setting, which was beautifully evocative with its migraine inducing wallpaper clashing with swirly carpets, to its avocado dado rails and yellow flocked bedspreads. Then there was the wonderful reunion of Walters and Bell (this time as mother and son) with Dame Jules bringing out her best Liverpudlian mother and Jamie Bell treating us to some great Saturday Night Fever moves. Frances Barber plays a wonderful cameo as the bitchster and Annette Bening is delightfully eccentric as Gloria Grahame. Totally agree, excellent film , why it didn't win handfuls of award is beyond me...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2018 7:43:01 GMT
I have not tried Riverdale yet but I just did, like, 5 episodes of Schitt’s Creek without even trying so I think I found my new binge-watch... I might try that when I finish saying 'what is this UTTER NONSENSE' and still watching three episodes of Riverdale (in my defence also I do love a ginger and that town is LOUSY with them)
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Post by sherriebythesea on Sept 28, 2018 13:46:22 GMT
Been crazy busy with work, trying to get ready to leave for London Oct 26. I cannot believe that I'm sitting here trying to figure out if I can get 4 days in London for my February birthday to see All About Eve, Come From Away, True West and Follies.
WHAT HAVE YOU PEOPLE DONE TO ME !!!
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Post by TallPaul on Sept 28, 2018 14:08:43 GMT
I'm sitting here trying to figure out if I can get 4 days in London for my February birthday So you're like The Queen. Is your other birthday in the summer too?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2018 14:33:06 GMT
I have just watched Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, recently available on Netflix. Absolutely loved it, from the late 70s/early 80s setting, which was beautifully evocative with its migraine inducing wallpaper clashing with swirly carpets, to its avocado dado rails and yellow flocked bedspreads. Then there was the wonderful reunion of Walters and Bell (this time as mother and son) with Dame Jules bringing out her best Liverpudlian mother and Jamie Bell treating us to some great Saturday Night Fever moves. Frances Barber plays a wonderful cameo as the bitchster and Annette Bening is delightfully eccentric as Gloria Grahame. Annette Bening was quite frankly robbed of an Oscar nomination this year for that film. I know she's already got an old film relic at home but when is she going to win an Oscar?
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Post by peggs on Sept 28, 2018 17:45:03 GMT
Realising half an hour in after impending ofsted inspection notification that it will clash with almeida booking and make it even harder but suspecting this is not a frustration to voice out loud.
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Post by Tibidabo on Sept 29, 2018 12:17:07 GMT
Just took delivery of two blue and white ceramic lamps from that well-known shop that thinks an X can be doubled.
Unwrapped the first one. To say this took 35 minutes would not be an exaggeration. 2 rolls of packaging tape. Cardboard box. Another roll of packaging tape. Second cardboard box. Plastic bags tied in knots. Polystyrene. Plastic wires tying up the cable far too tightly. Found a light bulb (yes, one that fitted!) Pulled out the sofa and unplugged the old lamp, thought about the clocks going back😠 (impressive eh?) and changed the time on the timer before plugging in the new one. Got rid of the spider who'd taken up residence. All good.
Unwrapped the second one.
Except it wasn't a beautiful blue ceramic lamp.
It was a green owl. 🦉
On closer inspection it was a green owl lamp base.
Oh for crying out loud. (And anyone who has a green owl lamp base look away now.....but it was seriously hideous.)
So I called customer services. Very sorry, never happened before, yada yada - actually, they were very nice. But. They didn't have any more blue and white ceramic ones in the entire country and I don't just want one, so it will have to go back as well.
So off to pull out the sofa again, dismantle the lovely new blue and white lamp and then go and dig all the packaging out of the various recycling bins and mantle (opposite of dismantle, obvs) the whole bloody package again for sending back. My kitchen now looks like a snowstorm has hit. Polybloodystyrene!
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Post by lynette on Sept 29, 2018 12:43:32 GMT
Name and shame. I don’t get the double x
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Post by Tibidabo on Sept 29, 2018 13:02:50 GMT
TK
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Post by peggs on Sept 29, 2018 14:24:21 GMT
In work due to impending inspection and someone has swiped my chocolate from the fridge, there's barely a dozen people in. No chocolate and messing with my theatre booking, is there no mercy in the world?!
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Post by tysilio2 on Sept 29, 2018 19:15:18 GMT
My kitchen now looks like a snowstorm has hit. Polybloodystyrene![/quote]
So when Ken Bruce asks me on Popmaster what was the middle name of the lead singer with 80s band X-ray Spex, I'll know the answer!
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Post by david on Sept 30, 2018 16:13:18 GMT
With a weekend of theatre in Manchester while I was in the area, I decided to do the tour of the tour of the BBC studios at Salford’s Media City this morning. Definitely worth it for 90mins. We managed to get into the Radio 6 studio as well the Blue Peter studio (which is really small). Though the most interesting part was in the radio drama studio and how they did the sound effects for them. As a piece of trivia, the tour guides told us that during the Grand National, when the horses jump the fences, it’s all sound effects which are piped in and not the actual noise from the race!
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Post by peggs on Oct 3, 2018 20:23:57 GMT
Can home today, into day ten of no days off and having worked 24 extra hours in last 4 days and mid in inspection, tired and hungry and quite easily confused. 'I have very bad news' my mother announces. Who's dead or ill I think. I realise that I am looking at all 3 dogs so it can't be them and my thoughts jump to my pregnant sister, my nephew, my nieces...……………… 'bbc have lost testmatch special' she says. I stare in bemused incomprehension moving through to panicked anger.
I don't even like flipping cricket!
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Post by Tibidabo on Oct 6, 2018 8:32:00 GMT
Bin for kitchen food waste decided to stop peddling. Shopping for a replacement. John Lewis: £20. B&Q: £7. Yeah, but those B&Q ones are a bit rubbish... Already booked.
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Post by peggs on Oct 6, 2018 11:59:31 GMT
My mother is talking of revolution and mutiny coming (can you mutiny outside of the armed forces?), I think because of brexit, which I forebore to point out she voted for. She is stockpiling lime juice, novelty pimms cans and chicken food. There are going to be some strange meals.
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Post by d'James on Oct 6, 2018 12:05:00 GMT
I think I’ve got gastroenteritis. I’m hoping it’ll go soon.
It’s at times like this you can feel very isolated in a foreign country.
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Post by TallPaul on Oct 6, 2018 12:51:53 GMT
Bin for kitchen food waste decided to stop peddling. Shopping for a replacement. John Lewis: £20. B&Q: £7. Shouldn't one be putting one's food waste in a caddy, or are there no golf courses nearby?
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Post by Dawnstar on Oct 6, 2018 18:25:49 GMT
Today we cracked & had the heating on for an hour for the first time since the beginning of May. Anyone still holding out?
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Post by kathryn on Oct 6, 2018 18:45:28 GMT
I’m still just about holding out! Came very close yesterday.
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Post by The Matthew on Oct 6, 2018 19:22:22 GMT
I gave in and wore a long-sleeved shirt today.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2018 19:26:17 GMT
I think I’ve got gastroenteritis. I’m hoping it’ll go soon. It’s at times like this you can feel very isolated in a foreign country. Eep! Hope you recover quickly!
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Post by Dawnstar on Oct 6, 2018 19:28:46 GMT
Today we cracked & had the heating on for an hour for the first time since the beginning of May. Anyone still holding out? Yes... but close... very close... Well, you do have the advantage of having fur!
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Post by d'James on Oct 7, 2018 1:45:28 GMT
I think I’ve got gastroenteritis. I’m hoping it’ll go soon. It’s at times like this you can feel very isolated in a foreign country. Eep! Hope you recover quickly! So do I. Whatever I do seems to make it worse.
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Post by peggs on Oct 7, 2018 14:53:33 GMT
Dreamt about Company and hanging out with Rosalie Craig and cast, in the dream remember thinking 'must tell @emicardiff' I either spend too much time on this board or on my Twitter feed.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2018 15:10:29 GMT
Dreamt about Company and hanging out with Rosalie Craig and cast, in the dream remember thinking 'must tell @emicardiff ' I either spend too much time on this board or on my Twitter feed. hahaha fulfilling my actual dreams there and @souchyboy
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Post by The Matthew on Oct 7, 2018 16:51:00 GMT
Behind every sign there's a story. At Birdland in Bourton on the Water today I saw a sign advising visitors that they shouldn't be concerned if they see a sereima lying on its back with its legs in the air because they do that when sunbathing. I wonder how many reports it took to result in the sign. (There's a similar sign for the bleeding-heart pigeons pointing out that, as the name suggests, they're supposed to have a patch the colour of fresh blood on them and they haven't been injured.)
Later in the day I stopped off at a pub to have lunch, and for the first time in my life I saw someone fall for the "You have updog in your hair" line. I thought that was a joke that only existed in print because it never actually worked in reality. Now I know better.
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Post by The Matthew on Oct 11, 2018 15:00:53 GMT
Watching afternoon TV. If the advertising is anything to go by, when people retire they spend all their time planning how to pay for funerals.
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Post by peggs on Oct 11, 2018 17:31:00 GMT
On train home late last night was rummaging for my house key before realising with sinking feeling that it was in my theatre bag in my house, I of course had the has to be smaller going to the national theatre bag. Get home, spend time looking for torch in front of car, give up and move to looking for it in boot in dark by touch. Locate torch, torch has no batteries, hunt for batteries, give up and decide to locate spare key in shed by moonlight. There is no moonlight, stumble to shed, falling over chicken house and accompanied at each step but a crunch as I decimate the local snail population. Hunt around by the light of the small glowing screen on my watch hoping a mouse doesn't jump out on my. Find key. Realise could have been using phone as touch.
I'm a bit slow with technology, it took my a whole journey home from the hairdressers falling off pavements and navigating off hedges (I live in the country, there are no lights) thinking my phone torch didn't work before I finally realised the case cover was covering the torch light.
It's possible I should go out on my own though I take comfort from the fact that a colleague told me today she'd dried scrolling up an actual packet of biscuits to look for the ingredients. I haven't tried that yet.
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Post by lynette on Oct 11, 2018 17:33:22 GMT
You got chickens? 🐣🐣❤️
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