@El Loro posted:A greedy Cyril had to be freed:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-59650985
That'll teach him to be a little porker 
Not a fan of the grey variety...not after what they have done to our little red beauties 
@El Loro posted:A greedy Cyril had to be freed:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-59650985
awww feel a bit sorry for it -I'm a right softie
night EL slim
moonsiee hope you are ok
Good morning everyone it's another cloudy dull day with the possibility of drizzle now and then.
Enjoy your day everyone 
@slimfern I've just seen an episode of Tales of the Unexpected and it's delightful. When I mention that the leads are Richard Briers and Patricia Routledge, you'll understand why it's really good. It's gentle and there is no real twist at the end.
Worth recording it as it's repeated at 9am tomorrow. You wouldn't want to have to wait until it gets shown some time in the future,
@El Loro posted:@slimfern I've just seen an episode of Tales of the Unexpected and it's delightful. When I mention that the leads are Richard Briers and Patricia Routledge, you'll understand why it's really good. It's gentle and there is no real twist at the end.
Worth recording it as it's repeated at 9am tomorrow. You wouldn't want to have to wait until it gets shown some time in the future,
Thanks El 
I'm usually up and about at that time so will give it a watch....I like Richard Briars and Patricia Routledge 
@slimfern posted:Yes...had already spotted that one
Having my new cooker delivered that day too....whoop whoop, it's going to be a good day!
That's good news
A very long time ago when I was at school, they showed films from time to time there. One of the films I saw was "Genghis Khan" (1965). That's an epic and is not a good film. The music score often repeated some notes which are the musical equivalent of whoop whoop. Here's a clip with the credits. Takes about 1 minute 15 seconds before the whoop whoop starts - 4 times in the opening credits and 5 in the closing credits and many many times during the film.
A film to avoid
@El Loro posted:That's good news
A very long time ago when I was at school, they showed films from time to time there. One of the films I saw was "Genghis Khan" (1965). That's an epic and is not a good film. The music score often repeated some notes which are the musical equivalent of whoop whoop.
A film to avoid
I can hear the Whooping
A barbaric part of history
I do like Eli Wallach...though not necessarily the characters he depicts, but he does do them well and often injects a little humour into them...
Telly Savalas on the other hand aka Kojak, hmmmm
@slimfern posted:I can hear the Whooping
A barbaric part of history
I do like Eli Wallach...though not necessarily the characters he depicts, but he does do them well and often injects a little humour into them...
Telly Savalas on the other hand aka Kojak, hmmmm
As you say, a barbaric time
Eli Wallach was a far better actor than Telly Savalas.
night EL slim mooonsieee
Good morning everyone it's a cloudy dry day today with light winds.
Enjoy your day everyone
@slimfern if you are able to get the Great Movies Action channel (Freeview 41) you might want to make a note of this. "Holiday Affair" (1949) starring Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh. It's a Christmassy romantic drama. I rate it as the best Christmassy films other than the famous ones. Easily Robert Mitchum's nicest film.
It's on Thursday 23rd at 6 am in the morning It's not an action film despite being shown on the GMA channel. That channel is limited so you may not be able to get it in your area.
I don't think it's on Youtube - a 1996 remake is.
@El Loro posted:@slimfern if you are able to get the Great Movies Action channel (Freeview 41) you might want to make a note of this. "Holiday Affair" (1949) starring Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh. It's a Christmassy romantic drama. I rate it as the best Christmassy films other than the famous ones. Easily Robert Mitchum's nicest film.
It's on Thursday 23rd at 6 am in the morning It's not an action film despite being shown on the GMA channel. That channel is limited so you may not be able to get it in your area.
I don't think it's on Youtube - a 1996 remake is.
I may have to record this one El...is a bit too early for me to be watching the telly 
@slimfern posted:'Dobson Tearooms'
A lovely 'Tales of the Unexpected' episode El..very gentle ...it took me right back to the 70's.
Not often these days where the sting the tail of a story is where the main character can't read or write.
Thanks El
I'm glad you liked "The Verger"
@slimfern posted:I may have to record this one El...is a bit too early for me to be watching the telly
That's why I mentioned it so that you can set up the recording in advance
I doubt if you normally look at the Great Movies Action schedule as it tends to show war films and westerns but sometimes it shows other types of films including film noirs. Rarely it shows "Robinson Crusoe" AKA "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" made some time between 1952 and 1954. What makes this film unusual is that it was directed by Luis Bunuel, regarded as one of the greats in international films. It was his only English speaking film. It was a low budget film made when he was in Mexico and starred Dan O'Herlihy. (not to be confused with the tv series made in the early 1960s which is the one with one of the best music themes ever:
@El Loro posted:That's why I mentioned it so that you can set up the recording in advance
I doubt if you normally look at the Great Movies Action schedule as it tends to show war films and westerns but sometimes it shows other types of films including film noirs. Rarely it shows "Robinson Crusoe" AKA "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" made some time between 1952 and 1954. What makes this film unusual is that it was directed by Luis Bunuel, regarded as one of the greats in international films. It was his only English speaking film. It was a low budget film made when he was in Mexico and starred Dan O'Herlihy. (not to be confused with the tv series made in the early 1960s which is the one with one of the best music themes ever:
I know the story but have never seen the series nor a film of it...I think the nearest to it I have seen is 'The Swiss Family Robinson' 
Used to love watching that
@slimfern posted:I know the story but have never seen the series nor a film of it...I think the nearest to it I have seen is 'The Swiss Family Robinson'
My father had a substantial collection of books. So I read Daniel Defoe's novel when I was young. Often credited as the first English novel. I've never read other books by Daniel Defoe, the best known being "Moll Flanders" and "A Journal of the Plague Year". Neither of those would be suitable reading for children.
Another early novel I read was Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver Travels", the complete book rather than any versions for children.
@El Loro posted:My father had a substantial collection of books. So I read Daniel Defoe's novel when I was young. Often credited as the first English novel. I've never read other books by Daniel Defoe, the best known being "Moll Flanders" and "A Journal of the Plague Year". Neither of those would be suitable reading for children.
Another early novel I read was Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver Travels", the complete book rather than any versions for children.
Books were something that came and went as I grew up...being in the Air force and moving every 2 yrs and only being allocated a certain number of crates to pack our things in, books took up too much space.
My Mum always kept hold of her bible and my Dad his book on House maintenance, we children were allowed one book each. Mine was usually an Enid Blyton book
The books we amassed during our posting would be given to the camp library
I've read 'Gullivers Travels'
@slimfern posted:Books were something that came and went as I grew up...being in the Air force and moving every 2 yrs and only being allocated a certain number of crates to pack our things in, books took up too much space.
My Mum always kept hold of her bible and my Dad his book on House maintenance, we children were allowed one book each. Mine was usually an Enid Blyton book
The books we amassed during our posting would be given to the camp library
I've read 'Gullivers Travels'
At one time my father had about 5,000 books 
I read hardly anything by Enid Blyton. The only one I vaguely remember was one of her earliest books. Looking at a list of her books it would have been "The Green Goblin Book" (published 20 years before the development of the Green Goblin character in Spiderman).
@El Loro posted:At one time my father had about 5,000 books
I read hardly anything by Enid Blyton. The only one I vaguely remember was one of her earliest books. Looking at a list of her books it would have been "The Green Goblin Book" (published 20 years before the development of the Green Goblin character in Spiderman).
Crikey! Must have been one heck of a sturdy bookshelf
My Blyton memories were more 'The Secret Seven' series, after a few years of course of the 'Noddy' Adventures
@slimfern posted:
My Blyton memories were more 'The Secret Seven' series, after a few years of course of the 'Noddy' Adventures
My parents lived in a detached house. In the downstairs front room he had put up sturdy shelves right across one of the walls up to the ceiling. In the backroom he had shelves up to the ceiling on part of one of the walls. There was also a smaller bookcase in the room. In their bedroom they had another set of shelves on part of one of the walls.
I don't have anywhere near the number of books my parents had, probably about 1,000
@El Loro posted:At one time my father had about 5,000 books
I read hardly anything by Enid Blyton. The only one I vaguely remember was one of her earliest books. Looking at a list of her books it would have been "The Green Goblin Book" (published 20 years before the development of the Green Goblin character in Spiderman).
Blyton -loved secret seven and famous five
night EL Slim moonsieee
Good morning everyone it's a bit of a mixture this morning but with some sunshine in the mix which will make a pleasant change.
Enjoy your day everyone
Weather photos - Some real stunners...
https://www.loveexploring.com/...ather-photos?page=11
@slimfern posted:Weather photos - Some real stunners...
https://www.loveexploring.com/...ather-photos?page=11
Haven't had a chance to look as a large client job partially arrived yesterday evening with the rest to be sent to me later today. Corporation tax is due to be paid by 6 January so I'm having to concentrate on that client
@El Loro posted:Haven't had a chance to look as a large client job partially arrived yesterday evening with the rest to be sent to me later today. Corporation tax is due to be paid by 6 January so I'm having to concentrate on that client
I've found errors in the spreadsheet the client sent me yesterday evening. I had found some errors in the equivalent spreadsheet they sent me last year. I had corrected those and had sent them my revised version.
And the spreadsheet yesterday was based on their spreadsheet of last year rather than the one I sent.
So the spreadsheet still had those errors. And I've found more errors this time.
On the spreadsheet there's a column each year which they should be using as a means of checking that their entries reconcile.
But they had left the column blank.
So I have told them that I'm increasing my fee as a result. I should point out that the person who did the spreadsheet is a qualified chartered accountant so, although he's extremely busy, he should have found the errors himself.
@El Loro posted:I've found errors in the spreadsheet the client sent me yesterday evening. I had found some errors in the equivalent spreadsheet they sent me last year. I had corrected those and had sent them my revised version.
And the spreadsheet yesterday was based on their spreadsheet of last year rather than the one I sent.
So the spreadsheet still had those errors. And I've found more errors this time.
On the spreadsheet there's a column each year which they should be using as a means of checking that their entries reconcile.
But they had left the column blank.
So I have told them that I'm increasing my fee as a result. I should point out that the person who did the spreadsheet is a qualified chartered accountant so, although he's extremely busy, he should have found the errors himself.
Good for you El
It's one thing to correct a genuine error, but for them to ignore you and make the same mistake again is just ignorant ...one should always charge extra for that