@Moonie posted:That’s not much time for the players to recover El
True, but it's not unusual for teams to be playing two matches a week at times during a normal season. Cheltenham Town team has been back in training since the beginning of the month and had a friendly match against Cardiff on Tuesday. So they will have had some preparation.
@El Loro posted:True, but it's not unusual for teams to be playing two matches a week at times during a normal season. Cheltenham Town team has been back in training since the beginning of the month and had a friendly match against Cardiff on Tuesday. So they will have had some preparation.
That does sound like a good preparation El 
Good luck to your lads 
Evening all
I hope you’ve all had a good day.
@Yogi19 posted:
I won’t ask then
Mine wasn’t great either but a bit better tonight
Awww, sorry your day wasn’t good either 
Okay, my shortened version of today.
My telly is on the blink. So a new one needed. My current one is a very old 28” Toshiba CRT
I know nothing at all about the current televisions 
Central heating went on the blink 
Rang the council. Early afternoon. Appointment between 2pm and 9pm. Engineer came a little while later and sorted it out. My incompetence really.
Had a text at 7-15 to say the engineer was on his way.
Rang the council to say he had already been earlier. The call went through to emergency call out. They couldn’t contact the en route engineer as the original request was made in normal working hours.
They said to listen out for the en route one and explain to him what had happened. He didn’t turn up
Had a text at 7-55 saying how do you rate out engineers visit. He got a 10 from me
That was the shortened version. I hope it makes sense 
That made sense and it was not a good day
Glad you got your heating sorted and hope you can get an new tv soon 
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Moonie and Ros
Hug for the night owls
@Yogi19 posted:
Glad you got your heating sorted and hope you can get an new tv soon
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Moonie and Ros
Hug for the night owls
Fankoo Yogi
@Yogi19 posted:Tom Jones?
Night night again
Nope, his name was Ricky Valence and the song was Tell Laura I love Her
@squiggle posted:I'm having a personal celebration of us being so old
by having a wander down memory lane and going to the first pages, heartwarming and occasionally bringing a lump to the throat, I really recommend it.
night yogi moonsie velvet summer if you are around
Good morning everyone it's a little brighter this morning.
Oh Moonie that was a pretty rotten day. I wish you good luck in sourcing a replacement TV.
Enjoy your day everyone
Good morning everyone
Forecast is showers and light breeze. There has already been a couple of light showers.
Thanks El
Moonie, I do know who Ricky Valance was and know the song but I had no idea he was the first Welshman to have a No1 hit and over a million sales
Have a good day and stay safe, all
Good morning everyone
Thanks everyone for your kind posts
My central heating is now sorted
I still haven’t settled on a new television yet but it will be sorted asap
Yogi, I have to admit I didn’t know Ricky Valance was Welsh or that he was the first to Welshman to have a million seller
It was when I saw his obituary yesterday that I found out all the information I posted 🙂
Have a great day everyone. Stay safe
Wouldn't count but I would just mention Ivor Novello who was Welsh and wrote some huge hits at the time of the first World War, the most famous one being "Keep the Home Fires Burning".
Jeremy Northam played Ivor Novello in the film "Gosford Park". I really disliked that film though the Ivor Novello character was the only character I liked at all. He played and sung quite a number of Novello's songs including "Keep the Home Fires Burning".
As I said, doesn't really count as I'm not aware that Novello ever released a record with him singing.
And yet another one of those Amazon Prime scam phone calls talking of 79.99 subscription so put phone down on them. With this one if you press one and get to talk with someone they will pretend that there's been a fraudulent attempt - they try to get you to download something to get this corrected. In reality it gives them access to your computer to find out things like bank log in details.
@El Loro posted:And yet another one of those Amazon Prime scam phone calls talking of 79.99 subscription so put phone down on them. With this one if you press one and get to talk with someone they will pretend that there's been a fraudulent attempt - they try to get you to download something to get this corrected. In reality it gives them access to your computer to find out things like bank log in details.
That sounds familiar El
But as I said yesterday, I didn’t fall for it
"The Maltese Falcon" (1941) was one of the first classic film noir titles. One of the last ones was Orson Welles' "Touch of Evil" (1958). As with many of his films, it was edited out of his control and released at 93 minutes, A more complete version was found and released in 1975 at 108 minutes. Then in 1998, a re-edited version at 111 minutes was released based on what was closer to what Welles had intended. If you get a chance to see that version, it's worth watching though the Welles' character is really unpleasant.
The strangest film noir must be the 1955 "Kiss Me Deadly" based on a Mickey Spillane book. I saw it many many years ago and wouldn't want to see it again. The final scene is unique in the history of film noir. That;s not a recommendation though to watch the film.
at the scammers. Good job we all know about that scam and don’t fall for it
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros and Moonie
Hug for the night owls
night yogiii moonsie velvet summer if you are around
Good morning everyone it's a little cloudy this morning but looks as if it might brighten up later.
My piano teacher recommended to my parents that we go to an Ivor Novello theatre show. I can't remember which one we saw but I loved it. I loved Jeremy Northam in Gosford Park as well and bought the CD of the songs he sang.
Enjoy your day everyone
Good morning everyone
Quite sunny here, a potential for thunderstorms this afternoon.
Ivor Novello was also a film actor in the 1920s and early 1930s. The only film of his I've seen was the 1927 silent film "The Lodger" an early Alfred Hitchcock film.
I hope everyone has a good day
A woman has hatched three ducklings from eggs she bought from Waitrose:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...bucks-herts-52838747
Good morning everyone
We had some rain yesterday and even a little lightening. It’s cleared the muggy air though
Nothing to do today, so far 
But one never knows what may crop up
@El Loro posted:A woman has hatched three ducklings from eggs she bought from Waitrose:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...bucks-herts-52838747
That a strange one El
Have a great day everyone but stay safe
@Moonie posted:I have just had a look at what is expected later and between 4pm and 6pm today, thunderstorms are forecast
That was when the thurderstorms had been forecast here.
There's been a light shower here but it does feel a lot closer now than it did earlier so I wouldn't rule thunderstorms out here yet.
@Moonie posted:I’m listening to various Sherlock Holmes’ stories with different actors playing the sleuth and his sidekick
I see that's on Radio 4 Extra. Quite a range of actors from the well known even now to those hardly known at all. I don't think any of them played the role in any television series or film. Closest seems to be Cedric Hardwicke as Holmes in the first of those in your radio programme and his son Edward who of course was Watson in the Jereny Brett TV series.
On a point of triva, Patrick Macnee of the Avengers tv series played Holmes in a 1993 Luxemborg/Canadian tv film called "The Hound of London" and Watson in 3 tv films (at least one of those has been shown on television a few times) (the first of those had Roger Moore as Holmes and the others Chrisopher Lee)
@El Loro posted:I see that's on Radio 4 Extra. Quite a range of actors from the well known even now to those hardly known at all. I don't think any of them played the role in any television series or film. Closest seems to be Cedric Hardwicke as Holmes in the first of those in your radio programme and his son Edward who of course was Watson in the Jereny Brett TV series.
On a point of triva, Patrick Macnee of the Avengers tv series played Holmes in a 1993 Luxemborg/Canadian tv film called "The Hound of London" and Watson in 3 tv films (at least one of those has been shown on television a few times) (the first of those had Roger Moore as Holmes and the others Chrisopher Lee)
I knew some of that EL but not all of it
@El Loro posted:A woman has hatched three ducklings from eggs she bought from Waitrose:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...bucks-herts-52838747
wow
