Yogi19 posted:I’ve got to be up at the crack of dawn tomorrow so I’m having an early night. Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros
. Hugs for any night owls
night yogi
summer if you pop in
Watched "Fire over England" (1937) yesterday. A British film in Elizabethan times about the events leading up to the Armada. It's more of a historical pageant rather than an action film as the action scenes don't match up with the best Hollywood action films of the time. The cast is interesting with major roles for Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh very early in their film careers and still learning. Very small role for James Mason before he became much better known. Highlight in the acting has to be Flora Robson as Elizabeth and the main reason for watching the film if Talking Pictures shows it again.
Good morning everyone, grey but dry again. The new Milly Johnson is out in 10 days time, I have my copy on order.
THE MOST PERFECT CHRISTMAS FEEL-GOOD READ!
'Every time you discover a new Milly book, it’s like finding a pot of gold' Heat
Eve Glace - co-owner of the theme park Winterworld - is having a baby and her due date is a perfectly timed 25th December. And she’s decided that she and her husband Jacques should renew their wedding vows with all the pomp that was missing the first time. But growing problems at Winterworld keep distracting them …
Annie Pandoro and her husband Joe own a small Christmas cracker factory, are well set up and happy together despite life never blessing them with a much-wanted child. But when Annie finds that the changes happening to her body aren’t typical of the menopause but pregnancy, her joy is uncontainable.
Palma Collins has agreed to act as a surrogate, hoping the money will get her out of the gutter in which she finds herself. But when the couple she is helping split up, is she going to be left carrying a baby she never intended to keep?
Annie, Palma and Eve all meet at the ‘Christmas Pudding Club’, a new directive started by a forward-thinking young doctor to help mums-to-be mingle and share their pregnancy journeys. Will this group help each other to find love, contentment and peace as Christmas approaches?
Enjoy your day everyone 
I see that ITV are repeating their Poirot episodes. The ABC Murders is on Friday and repeated on Sunday.
I'd rather watch that than the BBC Christmas adaptation this year, the one with John Malkovitch.
The oddest version has to be a 1965 comedy film (AKA The Alphabet Murders). That's got Tony Randall as Poirot. It's made by the same people who did the Margaret Rutherford Miss Marple films (she makes a cameo appearance in it) but it's poorer than those.
Good morning all
Weather is grey and showery.
Squiggle, I didn’t realise there was a new Milly book coming out. 
El, David Suchet is the only Poirot for me. In fact, I’m watching the “Lord Edgeware Dies” episode right now, on ITV3. 
Have a good day, all.
If anyone happens to spot a mermaid in the Thames, this is what it's about:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...cestershire-46069463
Although she's started at Lechlade, the actual source of the Thames is disputed with some saying that it starts at Seven Springs which is south south east of Cheltenham and some saying at Ullenwood which is a bit further west, just south of Cheltenham. At those points, it's a stream so not deep enough to swim in.
Grim local news today 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...cestershire-46096779
I didn't know them but know people who knew them well including one of my clients who spoke at their funeral.
On a much more positive side, this lengthy item on the BBC site:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-46073249
and if you don't know what a plain bob minor is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf3DRxIZRTs
the plain bob major is the better known one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqGETi-zXw
and if you want to know more about campanology read Dorothy L Sayers' Tne Nine Tailors as that's possibly the best novel relating to that subject (and a classic detective story),
By the way, the television adaptation of The Nine Tailors (Ian Carmichael) is somewhat different to the book. He did do an audiobook version of the book though which is faithful to the book. Although Edward Petherbridge did a few of the Peter Wimsey books, they didn't include The Nine Tailors.
The title comes from an old saying "Nine Tailors Make a Man" It refers to the nine strokes which at the beginning of the toll for the dead announced to the villagers that a man is dead.
El Loro posted:As you say, David Suchet is the only Poirot
ITV3 seems to be having lots of Poirot episodes at present though not in the order they were first shown
I don’t understand why some channels do that.
El Loro posted:Grim local news today
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...cestershire-46096779I didn't know them but know people who knew them well including one of my clients who spoke at their funeral.
I saw that on the news.
Yogi19 posted:El Loro posted:Grim local news today
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...cestershire-46096779I didn't know them but know people who knew them well including one of my clients who spoke at their funeral.
I saw that on the news.
night yogi summer if you pop in
Good morning from the rural setting of sunny Suffolk 
I’m visiting friends and have had no internet connection at my best friends house. (She’s doing great ) I’m now staying at my other friends house, who has good broadband
i hope you’re all well and enjoying the start of November I saw lots of fireworks as I drove down here
yogi i’m pleased you’re feeling better now
squiggle, I had no idea there’s a new Milly coming out! I loved her Xmas story about Eve & Jaques so I’m happy she’s re-visiting them
i’m heading out to catch up with some other friends today, I hope you all have a lovely day x
Good morning everyone
Fairush weather here at present, forecast to become very unsettled from tonight with a very very wet night and remaining unsettled for quite some time.
Summer, I'm glad you are having a nice time in Constable country (or nearby)
I hope everyone has a good day
Good morning everyone it's a much windier day today with the odd glimpse of blue sky. I think our weather later on is much like yours EL.
Enjoy your day everyone
Apaprently there was a fire at a car showroom not that far from where my brother lives. Was on their local news and was quite dramatic. Some of the nearby houses were evacuated as a precaution (my brother's was not one of those). Afterwards my brother did find some burnt cinders in his garden but nothing else.
Had a strange phone call a short time ago from someone ringing me about their online identity check system. He was adamant that he'd rung me a couple of weeks ago, not that I can remember such a call. He explained why their product was superior to others and that the manual ones I do weren't adequate. I said I've been doing electronic ones for years, not manual ones. He wasn't convinced by that. Their product included facial recognition and that I would be able to send this on. Why that would be of any relevance or use to me I don't know. I was able to eventually get a word in and was able to make him realise that we were wasting each others time. I said I was puzzled by his call as I would have said the same things to him before. We think that we must be living on different planets 
I see that "Twice Round the Daffodils" is on Talking Pictures this evening. It's a 1962 black and white film starring Juliet Mills. Although it's directed by Gerald Thomas and does have Kenneth Williams and Joan Sims in, and was adapted by Norman Hudis, so is connected with the Carry On films, it's what you might call a serious comedy being set in a TB sanitorium for men (Juliet Mills is a nurse). It's a pleasant heartwarming film.
The era is the same as when Shelagh Turner (as she now is) had to go to a TB sanatorium for a time in Call the Midwife.
A BBC clip from a few days ago about a goose named Hoppi:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/...estershire-46072269/
El Loro posted:If Chris Woakes was called back in to the England Test cricket team then there would be Woakes, Stokes and Foakes in the team
(not surprisingly, I'm not the first person to realise that)
Johnners would have another melt down may he RIP.
Possibly the funniest clip out there leg over
Yogi, you know I hope you're feeling better
Take it easy all and hope all is well all over Buddies. South to North, West to East.
Evening all.
I had a good day with the tiddlers and youngest son paid us a visit, which pleased the kids no end. They had a fun time with middle son on Sunday and the same with youngest son today.
Summer, I’m glad you are enjoying your time with your friends
El, that fire sounds dreadful.
I’m a bit better, thanks Velvet. Hope you are well.
Hugs for everyone
El Loro posted:Had a strange phone call a short time ago from someone ringing me about their online identity check system. He was adamant that he'd rung me a couple of weeks ago, not that I can remember such a call. He explained why their product was superior to others and that the manual ones I do weren't adequate. I said I've been doing electronic ones for years, not manual ones. He wasn't convinced by that. Their product included facial recognition and that I would be able to send this on. Why that would be of any relevance or use to me I don't know. I was able to eventually get a word in and was able to make him realise that we were wasting each others time. I said I was puzzled by his call as I would have said the same things to him before. We think that we must be living on different planets
El, I I think you get the Buddies prize for receiving the strangest calls
Enjoyed our time in The Tower. Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros
Hug for any night owls
Night Yogi and I want you a lot better than a bit
Ros and Sweet
El Loro posted:A BBC clip from a few days ago about a goose named Hoppi:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/...estershire-46072269/
EL this is gorgeous
night yogi and velvet summer if you pop in
Yogi19 posted:El Loro posted:Had a strange phone call a short time ago from someone ringing me about their online identity check system. He was adamant that he'd rung me a couple of weeks ago, not that I can remember such a call. He explained why their product was superior to others and that the manual ones I do weren't adequate. I said I've been doing electronic ones for years, not manual ones. He wasn't convinced by that. Their product included facial recognition and that I would be able to send this on. Why that would be of any relevance or use to me I don't know. I was able to eventually get a word in and was able to make him realise that we were wasting each others time. I said I was puzzled by his call as I would have said the same things to him before. We think that we must be living on different planets
El, I I think you get the Buddies prize for receiving the strangest calls
I think EL answers them out of pleasure - just to let them know he's not daft Yogi.
I know I wouldn't. Recognised numbers in here only.
Good morning everyone
A wet night here and lots more rain expected today.
Yogi, I'm glad you had a good day with the tiddlers
Velvet, I have to answer any calls I get as they can be business related. Yesterday's call was business even though it was strange
I hope everyone has a good day
On the BBC site, some photos sent to them by BBC Weather Watchers over the last year, there's one a month from November last year to last month:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/46016850
Good morning everyone
It’s raining, up here.
El, those pics are gorgeous.
I might head to Dobbies today to see the Christmas decorations etc.
Have a good day, all.
Morning troops
Like Yogi, it's a good old fashioned stinker here. Hope all slept better than me and hope Sweet is enjoying herself. What a girl she is - life to the full
El, I know you have to answer them but you get some scammers. Nature of the beast I suppose. Hope the biggies on track
Have a good day each and all