@Moonie posted:Good morning Buddies
A cool but dry start to the day here. Rain is expected later though
It’s currently 10 degrees
Shopping done so that me done for the day bar a few odds and ends
Enjoy your day everyone
I hope your team has a good match this afternoon 
. the Gillingham/Cheltenham FA Cup match is likely to be quite a close match
@El Loro posted:Watched "Q Planes" (1939) a British film. A quirky British Secret Service Agent tries to discover who is using a secret weapon to steal experimental planes. Leading actors were Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier and Valerie Hobson.
The film was released in February 1939. Ian Fleming was recruited in to the Naval Intelligence section of the Royal Navy in May 1939. Others have commented that "You Only Live Twice" has some similarities with "Q Planes".
Uncredited appearance by Ian Fleming in "Q Planes" as an air ministry appearance. However that's the Australian actor, not the famous writer.
Another point of trivia is that Patrick Macnee modelled his John Steed character after the Ralph Richardson character.
I think Patrick Macnee was a bigger character off screen than on it. Going by reports. And good on him - Steed was near TV abstract perfection.
Morning troops 
Hope all are okay as usual Another day....the kettle's on...the sun has gone...- Roy Harper. Every day is a bonus someone close once said.
The 10p footie accumulators are all on and the geegees. Moons, do you ever play the ITV 7 and Sky Super 6 via the Sporting Life website? Both are free 
Good luck today everyone
@velvet donkey posted:Morning troops
Hope all are okay as usual
The 10p footie accumulators are all on and the geegees. Moons, do you ever play the ITV 7 and Sky Super 6 via the Sporting Life website? Both are free
Good luck today everyone
Hi Velvet
I hope you’re okay and keeping safe
I was a betting man once but then decided it was a mugs game or maybe I was just a sore loser 
@Moonie posted:Hi Velvet
I hope you’re okay and keeping safe
I was a betting man once but then decided it was a mugs game or maybe I was just a sore loser
That's why I stick to 10p bets. The ITV 7 and Super 6 are still free
Okay here and hope so down South
@velvet donkey posted:That's why I stick to 10p bets. The ITV 7 and Super 6 are still free
Okay here and hope so down South
Pleased to see you are okay. The same here too thanks
@velvet donkey posted:That's why I stick to 10p bets. The ITV 7 and Super 6 are still free
Okay here and hope so down South
Good and all's well here, Velvet
According to my brother there will be a Father Brown special some time over the Christmas period and the ninth series early part of next year.
No news yet about Shakespeare & Hathaway though IMDB refers to a fourth series of 10 episodes for next year.
My brother mentioned that there was to be a spin off series on BC with 10 episodes from Father Brown called "Sister Boniface Mysteries" Like "Father Brown" it's set in the Cotswolds. Sister Boniface (with the same actress Lorna Watson) appeared in series 1 episode 6 called "The Bride of Christ". One of the other regulars is played by Miranda Raison (Spooks).
Hello. North Devon
I like squiggs, Britain is a small country. Ideas beyond the station.
night EL Monsieee slim Velvet
Good morning everyone it's a dull overcast day with quite a strong breeze.
Enjoy your day everyone
It's amazing how well preserved this room is...quite remarkable.
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...t-on-real-roman-life
Wonderful news
https://www.theguardian.com/en...ee-found-at-blenheim
@slimfern posted:Wonderful news
https://www.theguardian.com/en...ee-found-at-blenheim
That's very good news
Gad a look through Talking Pictures schedule for tomorrow through to next Sunday and didn't see anything outstanding.
Tuesday 15:25 "Teacher's Pet" (1958), a comedy with Doris Day as a college lecturer and Clark Gable as a newspaper editor who gets booked on a course on newspaper editing. Quite watchable though a big age gap between the two leads. It's the sort of comedy which might have been a Spencer Tracy/Katherine Hepburn film.
Saturday 9.55am "Child's Play" (1952). A film which was made for children. The father of one of the children is a scientist and gives his son an atomic chemistry set. The film would have been shown at children's matinees on Saturday mornings rather than on general release. Watchable in a strange way though scientifically preposterous 
Sunday 12.40 "Dead of Night" (1945). Classic British portmanteau horror/supernatural. Guests invited to a weekend in the country shares their stories. Very good film, PG rated though is unsettling and, in places, quite creepy.
I watched "Teacher's Pet" ages ago - DD is kinda 'coached' into giving better classes by CG,
"Accuracy, accuracy, accuracy" was CG answer to the 'most important part of journalism' - not in practice it aint 
@slimfern posted:Wonderful news
https://www.theguardian.com/en...ee-found-at-blenheim
fantastic news
@slimfern posted:It's amazing how well preserved this room is...quite remarkable.
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...t-on-real-roman-life
its fascinating slim love stuff like this
Good morning everyone it's a cloudy but dry day, very slightly warmer than it has been.
Enjoy your day everyone
@Saint posted:I watched "Teacher's Pet" ages ago - DD is kinda 'coached' into giving better classes by CG,
"Accuracy, accuracy, accuracy" was CG answer to the 'most important part of journalism' - not in practice it aint
Film4 is showing "His Girl Friday" (1940) this afternoon. Directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, the best comedy about newspaper journalists ever made. Second film version of "The Front Page" originally filmed in 1931 by Lewis Milestone and by Billy Wilder (1974), and another remake in 1988 as "Switching Channels". "His Girl Friday" is the definitive version.
@El Loro posted:Well done Moonie
Some leaves have fallen in my back garden but not enough yet to need to sweep them up.
Thanks El
Our street is lined with trees from one end to the other. So a lot of leaves to fall this time of year 
Our back garden is nearly all evergreens bar one tree right at the bottom of the garden so not to bad out there
@El Loro posted:Film4 is showing "His Girl Friday" (1940) this afternoon. Directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, the best comedy about newspaper journalists ever made. Second film version of "The Front Page" originally filmed in 1931 by Lewis Milestone and by Billy Wilder (1974), and another remake in 1988 as "Switching Channels". "His Girl Friday" is the definitive version.
Love Cary Grant, watched a documentary about him recently, fascinating life and quite sad.
Father Goose - a crackin' movie, one of the last he made
