The roads and paths round here are really bad. They’re either covered in snow, covered in ice – or worse still, both! Using the car is completely out of the question and there have been a number of examples on the news of people losing control of their vehicle and the car ending up in …
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Category:DVD
David and Val’s for Goulash
We popped round to David and Val’s tonight. Val had made Goulash whilst Ann made a bread-and-butter pudding. Scrummy! We both reckoned that was the BEST Goulash we’ve ever tasted!!! We watched the ‘Manchurian Candidate’ (Denzel Washington) on DVD – a great film. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my …
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Meal with David and Val
We decided last time that on this occasion, we’d slum-it and have a take-away. We decided on Chinese and David did all the fetching and carrying. We’d agreed to watch ‘The Bourne Ultimatum’ on DVD as part of the get-together. We all enjoyed the film – it held our attention throughout and Matt Damon took …
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DVD: ‘Journey to the Far-Side of the Sun’
Finally got round to watching this today. It’s just been released on DVD and I remember it well from the few times it’s been shown on the TV in the past. A Gerry and Sylvia Anderson Production with some great special effects! You’ve probably got to be a ‘GA’ fan to really enjoy it…so it …
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Jeff Wayne’s: War of the World’s Tour 2009
Lucky us, we were able to get tickets for Jeff Wayne’s 2009 War of the Worlds Tour. We’re seeing it at the O2 Arena in London! There’s a good animation/video doing the rounds that’s worth a watch. It later appeared on YouTube. To coincide with this Tour, ‘The Spirit of Man’ single and video were …
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Family Weekend
Another hot day. We had brekky in the garden and then started to get ready for Denis, Mae and Bev who are due for lunch. It’s a themed lunch – ‘Cowboys and Indians’. Oliver meanwhile wanted to watch Doctor Who on DVD but only got as far as episode 2 before he got bored! (sorry …
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Weekend Away – Day 2
A really lazy day today, helped by the fact that it rained ALL day! We took a short drive to ‘Van Hage’s’ a local gigantic garden centre nearby. For the rest of the day we just ate, drank and caught up with the newspapers. We watched ‘Black Book’ on DVD. It’s about Nazi occupied Holland …
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The Plasma TV arrives…
I suppose, I’ll look back on this Blog in future years and giggle at this ‘latest technology’, but right now, it’s the best TV AND picture I think I’ve ever seen!!! At around 2.40, John Lewis arrived with the package. A surprisingly slim box that was easy to open although I don’t reckon we’ll be …
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Phew, what a scorcher!
It must have been the hottest day of the year today! The weatherman said it was 23…but it felt much hotter – more like 33!!! We therefore had a lazy day although we didn’t get a chance to finish watching ‘The Prestige’ The time just seemed to fly today and Johnny and Mel stayed for …
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Johnny and Mel staying with us
Johnny and Mel arrived last night to stay with us for the weekend. We had a lazy breakfast and then Ann and Mel went to the local beauty parlour for some pampering whilst Johnny and I chewed the fat about the state of the world today! We then had a salad lunch in the garden …
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Musical War of the Worlds DVD
This has to be the about the best music DVD I’ve ever seen! Live orchestra, actors, big screen back projection and a 3D reconstruction of Richard Burton doing the narration. filmed in HD and DTS sound last year at Wembley Arena. Well done Jeff Wayne – truly outstanding!!!! I thought the Album was good, but …
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