@El Loro posted:

I note that the Sky Arts channel is showing "Dinner for One" this evening. It's a short black and white German film made in 1963 about an elderly woman and her butler. It's her 90th birthday and she's having a party for 4 of her friends who have died. So the butler impersonates them by drinking a toast and gets drunker and drunker. The film has become a Christmas staple in Germany and is shown on television every year. The Germans find it hysterically funny. I don't know if it will be shown in German with English subtitles or in English.

I’ve heard of that!!! My boyfriends grandfather was German and he told me all about that movie, I saw clips of it on you tube

Good evening everyone and happy new year! (Almost) I hope you’re all warm, cosy and having a good day. How are you all?

Moonie, that’s superb news about your swans!!!

I worked later last night due to the tier 4 announcement, went grocery shopping after and have been settling into home life again since. Today was so beautiful I went out walking in places I haven’t been lately, the deep frost has frozen all the muddy fields solid!

@~Sparkling Summer~ posted:

Good evening everyone and happy new year! (Almost) I hope you’re all warm, cosy and having a good day. How are you all?

Moonie, that’s superb news about your swans!!!

I worked later last night due to the tier 4 announcement, went grocery shopping after and have been settling into home life again since. Today was so beautiful I went out walking in places I haven’t been lately, the deep frost has frozen all the muddy fields solid!

Fankoo Sweet

You have been a busy 🐝

A happy and healthy New Year to you and Miss Bramble 🐾🐾

Always Moonie lol 🐝 I need pace myself better.

happy new year to you too Moonie, I hope 2021 is a happy & healthy one for you too

night  yogi   moonsie summer

Happy New year  Squiggle EL yogi Moonsie Summer Velvet

Good morning everyone it's a cloudy and very cold morning. We had a hail shower yesterday so it looked like we had had snow.

Thanks everyone for New Year good wishes I hope your year gets off to a good start

@~Sparkling Summer~ posted:

Always Moonie lol 🐝 I need pace myself better.

happy new year to you too Moonie, I hope 2021 is a happy & healthy one for you too

A Happy New Year Sweet and Miss Bramble 🐾🐾

@Rocking Ros Rose posted:

Happy New year  Squiggle EL yogi Moonsie Summer Velvet

A Happy New Year to you too Rosss

Good morning and a Happy New Year to you

Another cold amd frosty start here. Cloudier than yesterday.

If you've still got Adobe Flash Player on your device uninstall it as security updates ended as of yesterday and all videos and animations will cease to run as from the 12th. It was plagued with security issues and was old.

I hope everyone has a good day.

Good Morning everyone

A very Happy New Year to one and all

Light rain turning to overcast by lunchtime here

It’s quite cold here. It’s not my intention to be venturing out today

Have a good day everyone

They are dragging out the old stuff today

Oliver! (1968) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang also 1968

@Moonie posted:

They are dragging out the old stuff today

Oliver! (1968) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang also 1968

Channel 4 have a programme on at 19.30 about David Walliams trying to build a car that can fly - it's called "Chitty Flies Again with David Walliams"

@El Loro posted:

Channel 4 have a programme on at 19.30 about David Walliams trying to build a car that can fly - it's called "Chitty Flies Again with David Walliams"

I think in will recorded that, thanks El

an even older film on now on the Horror Channel. Steve McQueen’s film debut, the Blob, 1958

@Moonie posted:

I think in will recorded that, thanks El

an even older film on now on the Horror Channel. Steve McQueen’s film debut, the Blob, 1958

I've never bothered to see that though I've heard of it
Although it was McQueen's first film as the lead actor he had a couple of films before then though uncredited . His first credited role was in "Never Love a Stranger". John Drew Barrymore was the lead in that. It's been on the Talking Pictures channel fairly recently though it's not a particularly good film. That Barrymore was the son of John Barrymore (a major star a long time ago and brother of Lionel and Ethel who were also major stars). And John Drew Barrymore was the father of Drew Bayymore.

@El Loro posted:

I've never bothered to see that though I've heard of it
Although it was McQueen's first film as the lead actor he had a couple of films before then though uncredited . His first credited role was in "Never Love a Stranger". John Drew Barrymore was the lead in that. It's been on the Talking Pictures channel fairly recently though it's not a particularly good film. That Barrymore was the son of John Barrymore (a major star a long time ago and brother of Lionel and Ethel who were also major stars). And John Drew Barrymore was the father of Drew Bayymore.

You are always a mind of unknown information, to me, at least El. Fankoo

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was based on the book by Ian Fleming.
The director of the film, Ken Hughes, had also directed the Berlin scenes in the silly film Casino Royale (the 1967 film, the one which had Peter Sellers, David Niven and Woody Allen in).
Gert Frobe was in CCBB and Goldfinger.

I see that the actor Mark Eden has died, he was 92.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ent...inment-arts-55508606
That article doesn't mention that he was Inspector Parker in several of the BBC adaptations of some of the Lord Peter Wimsey books on the BBC back in the 1970s (Ian Carmichael) which is what I remembered him for.

Evening all

I hope 2021 is a vast improvement on last year

Very chilly here today. I went out to lock the garage and it’s already very frosty.

El, I knew the actor Mark Eden as Alan Bradley in Coronation Street. Gave up watching it a couple of years ago.

Moonie, we didn’t venture out today either.

@Yogi19 posted:

Evening all

I hope 2021 is a vast improvement on last year

Very chilly here today. I went out to lock the garage and it’s already very frosty.

El, I knew the actor Mark Eden as Alan Bradley in Coronation Street. Gave up watching it a couple of years ago.

Moonie, we didn’t venture out today either.

Hi Yogi

You and me both. We need the vaccines rolled and quick too

We are sensible

@Moonie posted:

Hi Yogi

You and me both. We need the vaccines rolled and quick too

We are sensible

You are so right, on all points

@Yogi19 posted:

You are so right, on all points

Fankoo

Have you got anything good to watch on tv tonight? I left Mr Y downstairs watching football but he said the game was rubbish..

Goodnight and sweet dreams, Moonie and Ros

Hug for any night owls

*night owls* good evening lovelies I hope day 1 of 2021 has been good to you. I’ve had a lovely day; walking, yoga, studying, cooking and washing fox poo off of the dirty little hound she’s scared of fireworks but luckily there hasn’t been as many tonight

yogi mentioned steak pie and it inspired me to pop a beef casserole in the slow cooker. The house smells amazing already!

leaving huge goodnight hugs :hugs: for you all  

@Yogi19 posted:

Have you got anything good to watch on tv tonight? I left Mr Y downstairs watching football but he said the game was rubbish..

I watched a footie game earlier on this evening

@~Sparkling Summer~ posted:

*night owls* good evening lovelies I hope day 1 of 2021 has been good to you. I’ve had a lovely day; walking, yoga, studying, cooking and washing fox poo off of the dirty little hound she’s scared of fireworks but luckily there hasn’t been as many tonight

yogi mentioned steak pie and it inspired me to pop a beef casserole in the slow cooker. The house smells amazing already!

leaving huge goodnight hugs :hugs: for you all  

Hi and bye Sweet

I bet Miss Bramble wasn’t to pleased about being ‘washed’

I’m glad you had a nice day together 🙂

Sounds delicious 🤤

Night night, sleep well, sweet dreams Yogi, Rosss, Sweet, a very clean Miss Bramble and visitors 🐾🐾

night yogi moonsie summer

Good morning everyone it's a cold morning but at least it should be dry. I hope your casserole was tasty Summer.

Enjoy your day everyone

Good morning everyone

Cold and some sunshine here.

Summer, I hope you (and Bramble ) enjoyed your beef casserole

I hope everyone has a good day

Good morning everyone

It’s not to cold but the odd snowflake have just started to fall. That’s not in the forecast

Sweet, I hope you enjoyed your casserole. Any left over

Enjoy your day everyone

The snow has now stopped, not much to be honest and the sun has made an appearance

It was sleeting here but not at present.

Met Office are showing a dry evening here. BBC site showing snow throughout the evening, So not exactily consistent

@El Loro posted:

It was sleeting here but not at present.

Met Office are showing a dry evening here. BBC site showing snow throughout the evening, So not exactily consistent

Nope

Cheltenham match at Harrogate postponed due to the pitch being frozen,

@El Loro posted:

Cheltenham match at Harrogate postponed due to the pitch being frozen,

I did watch that "Dinner for One" short film. Other than the introduction, it was in English rather than subtitled. The two leads were played by English people. The butler was played by Freddie Frinton who had done the sketch many times on stage, his bakckground was as a music hall comedian. So although he played the part very well you knew what was going to happen shortly after the sketch began. Watchable once but I've no intention of watching it every year. No BBFC rating but I guess a PG as it ends on a suggestive note and wink by Frinton to the audience.
Incidentally, he was a tee-totaller.

Taken a short while ago

Evening all

It’s been freezing all day - too cold for snow. Looks like you’ve been getting some snow, Moonie

I’ve had a bit of a lazy day.

Hope you’ve all had a good day.