November verse 6: While they're counting The BOM predicted wind and drizzle but today dawned clear and still. In bed we did our daily puzzle, read the news, then took our pills, had juice, poached eggs on toast (with pepper). I showered, shaved and, feeling dapper went out shopping while you made a marinade and ironed and laid the table for tonight's four dinner guests. I vacuumed, rehung art. You whipped up a sweet lime tart. Refresh, refresh, there's still no winner. Downstairs hung their washing out. Refresh, refresh, it's still in doubt.
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Reading & watching- Southerly 78.3: Violence (Editor Elizabeth McMahon 2019) 23 November 2020Southerly is one of many Australian cultural projects that is in trouble under the current government. This is a brilliant issue.
- When the Dust Settles / Når støvet har lagt sig (Dorte Warnøe Høgh, Ida Maria Rydén 2020) 23 November 2020Bill Bryson's view of the Danes always ready for a cheerfully intoxicated good time doesn't apply here. It traces the lives of a number of people in the days before a terrorist attack and, presumably, after.
- MumSeason 2 (Stefan Golaszewski 2018) 22 November 2020This film about two humans surrounded by grotesques is still funny and still almost unbearable.
- The Crown Season 4 (Peter Morgan 2020) 15 November 2020According to IMDB, this is the fourth of six projected seasons. This is the one where Diana Spencer makes her appearance. And Maggie Thatcher, who is presented in counterpoint to her. Is it wrong to want Jeffrey Epstein to have a cameo role?
- What They Had (Elizabeth Chomko 2018) 14 November 2020A woman has fairly early stage dementia. Her husband and two adult children are at odds about what is to be done. Terrific performances, and some recognisable moments.
- Southerly 78.3: Violence (Editor Elizabeth McMahon 2019) 23 November 2020
Yet this was one time when Hope came up trumps!
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