How was your day? (Random off topic chat)

My parents switch the WiFi off at night. Does anyone else do this? I find it peculiar.

But ... what if you wake up at 03:00 and need to know how many calories are in an elephant or what bank notes looked like in 19th century Argentina?

I remember my grandparents used to unplug all electrical equipment at night, apart from things like the freezer.

Yes. My mother insists the Wifi is switched off every night. In vain I've spent the last 3 years telling her that it's designed to be left on. The TV is likewise switched off at night. She also tries to make me switch my phone off at night but I refuse to.

I went to the cinema today for the first time in almost six months (by my reckoning anyway), to see Proxima at Curzon Bloomsbury: I originally booked to see this at BFI Southbank at some point in April (I think) followed by a Q&A with Eva Green but that obviously got cancelled. The film itself was OK without being anything outstanding but to be honest I felt a bit mystified that anyone felt this was a story that just had to be told : I don’t know how much of a star Eva Green is in France but I don’t know if a similarly themed film would have found funding in this country (I’m not sure why Matt Dillon is in this either, other than to show that he is still available to work).

There was a grand total of three people in the screening I attended, and I was told I had to keep a mask on while watching but I took mine off about ten minutes into the film but no one was sat anywhere near me so I felt the whole mask thing was pointless. I’d like to have said I had been to see a masterpiece on my return to the cinema (the Prince Charles are screening 2001:A Space Odyssey when they reopen in October) but it just felt good to sit in a cinema again after so long. I think all of the mainstream studios are going to sit on their ‘big’ films for the foreseeable future but I hope to see Tenet when it’s released.

Quiet day watching a few things I'd recorded and never got around to to seeing, including the last few episodes of Great West End Theatres. Such a shame they never got to complete the series.

I was wondering if anyone could recommend any good books that cover West End/British theatre history?

Today has been bittersweet. Amongst the many colleagues and friends of mine who have been made redundant, I’ve been very fortunate to keep my job. Extremely grateful and relieved.

I am loving these wi-fi and parents stories! :) (And am happy to see the conversation has moved on from slugs in shoes and anywhere else, because slugs, caterpillars and the like scare me. Snakes too. And lizards. And reptiles in general. Unless they are toy alligators or emoji alligators. Those are cool.)

My parents don't turn off their wi-fi, I believe, although my dad probably would if it was up to him: he never really managed to understand the Internet, computers, smartphones and modern ways of communication in general. Luckily, my mum is the opposite, she is fascinated by it and she makes up for lack of knowledge with her keen enthusiasm to learn and use things that make life easier. Otherwise keeping in touch (especially now, while living in different countries) would really be a challenge.

My day was wonderful. I walked back to Greenwich to collect some photo-prints I ordered, and met up with a colleague from work for a long-overdue catch-up in person, with drinks in the park and random chat included. Can we have more sunny but breezy weekends in London, please?!

You youngsters should switch everything off at night to save the planet. The reason us oldies do is because we were urged to in a public information film, featuring a Cowardesque couple singing and dancing in their dressing gowns. "Your life could depend on your bedtime routine."

I went to see Inception at Picturehouse Central this afternoon, first time I’ve seen it since it’s original release: thankfully I’d forgotten a fair bit about it since the last time (I didn’t remember Pete Postlethwaite being in it, although he’s not in it for that long) but what a good film, and the picture and sound were first rate. A ten minute or so making of Tenet was screened before it, I want to see that so much but might wait for the bank holiday Sunday to do so.

Thank goodness for your posts, peggs. Now that The Archers isn't really The Archers, they're the only connection I currently have with the countryside! 🙂

I'm as miserable today as the weather. 😠 More by accident than design, by the time I'd motivated myself to go to the park, it was *only* raining, rather than persisting it down, so that's one positive, I suppose. I had 36 acres almost to myself...apart from a few ne'er-do-wells and drug dealers.

Once Jazz Record Requests has finished, I'm going to have an early tea of soup and sandwiches, then I'm going to try and cheer myself up by watching old railway programmes on iPlayer.

Booking for the BFI reopened today after what seems like a lifetime: I have booked to see Big, Breakfast at Tiffanys, La Haine and Taxi Driver next month and didn’t have to pay for any of them: which was nice 😝

I nearly put the heating on earlier!