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- Veep Season 5 (Armando Iannucci 2016) 20 October 2021We switched to this after the horror show of Succession Series 3 Episode 1. It's just as much a horror show, but funny and we can tell ourselves it's unrealistic. This was made when Trump was first running for president.
- Succession Season 3 (Jesse Armstrong 2021) 20 October 2021Can big business really be this ruthless? I want them all to be put into intensive care until they've had a good cry. Meanwhile I watch in fascinated horror, hoping it's pure fiction.
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Destin Daniel Cretton 2021) 18 October 2021This is the first Asian-led movie from Marvel Studios. I broke my resolve not to see any more Marvel movies and I'm glad I did. Everyone in the audience waited through the first part of the credits for the first add-on, and probably three-quarters endured the seemingly interminable scrolling for the final bonus. As the images of film Australia and Film […]
- Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet 2000) 16 October 2021Full title Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain. Having seen this when it came out 20 odd years again we remembered nothing except Audrey Tatou's face, a general sense of whimsy, and having a bit of a sleep in the theatre. It was irritating but bearable on TV. I laughed once or twice.
- Frieden / Labyrinth of Peace (2020) 16 October 2021Switzerland in the aftermath of World War Two, facing the consequences of its neutrality – a family drama that encompasses industrial issues, \ and the handling of fleeing Nazis as well as extermination cam survivors.
- Veep Season 5 (Armando Iannucci 2016) 20 October 2021
Yet this was one time when Hope came up trumps!
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