night EL slim moonsiee velvet
Slim, I haven't spotted anything new of interest on the Talking Pictures tv channel during the coming week other than on Tuesday there's a film called "Not as a Stranger" (1955) which is a medical drama. Strong cast - Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Olive de Havilland, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford. Stanley Kramer's fist film as director.
A heavyweight cast and a serious film but it's unusual for a film of that time to actually show a beating heart during open hear surgery though it's a black and white film.
@El Loro posted:Slim, I haven't spotted anything new of interest on the Talking Pictures tv channel during the coming week other than on Tuesday there's a film called "Not as a Stranger" (1955) which is a medical drama. Strong cast - Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Olive de Havilland, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford. Stanley Kramer's fist film as director.
A heavyweight cast and a serious film but it's unusual for a film of that time to actually show a beating heart during open hear surgery though it's a black and white film.
Looking at the trailer for it, it's a very dramatic film ....and I'm not sure about Olivia de Havilland as a platinum blonde 
IMDb describe it as a film noir and give it 6.7/10 rating...Rotten Toms only give it 10%..
I'll record it and make up my own mind 
Thank you El
@slimfern posted:Looking at the trailer for it, it's a very dramatic film ....and I'm not sure about Olivia de Havilland as a platinum blonde
IMDb describe it as a film noir and give it 6.7/10 rating...Rotten Toms only give it 10%..
I'll record it and make up my own mind
Thank you El
Thanks Slim
Watched a film called "Jubal" yesterday, it's a 1956 western so wouldn't appeal to you. Has Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine & Rod Steiger in , also a small tole for Charles Bronson. Unusually, the film is centered around jealousy with devastating results. That's why there's a touch of "Othello" about it though mot in the storyline.
(Jubal is a name mentioned in Genesis and has sometimes been thought of as the inventor of music)
@El Loro posted:Thanks Slim
Watched a film called "Jubal" yesterday, it's a 1956 western so wouldn't appeal to you. Has Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine & Rod Steiger in , also a small tole for Charles Bronson. Unusually, the film is centered around jealousy with devastating results. That's why there's a touch of "Othello" about it though mot in the storyline.
(Jubal is a name mentioned in Genesis and has sometimes been thought of as the inventor of music)
Now, that would be a title worth having 
night EL slim moonsieee velvet
@El Loro posted:True about the gulls
There was a survey done in 2019 about the number of gulls, 6,000 here, the same number as in London.
Dread to think how many are around here being coastal, just wish they wouldn't nest on the rooftops 
and cos the local council don't ever switch off the street lighting the birds seem to think it's daytime 24hrs a day thus making a bliddy racket nonstop more or less 
They fall into my vermin catagory alongside magpies & grey squirrels...
@El Loro posted:Didn't last very long but there was quite a spectacular rainbow across the sky here a short time ago with vivid bands of colour (and bright enough for there to be a double one)
Nice one El 
Though it's been very windy here, it's been a blue sky for most of the day...
night EL slim moonsieee
Update news item on the Winchcombe meteorite which landed in February 2021:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...cestershire-68817230
@El Loro posted:Update news item on the Winchcombe meteorite which landed in February 2021:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...cestershire-68817230
It really doesn't look anything special does it El 
It's quite amazing how much they can learn about it with today's technology...
@slimfern posted:It really doesn't look anything special does it El
It's quite amazing how much they can learn about it with today's technology...
No, it doesn't look at all special, Slim A lot if news interest at the time, particularly the fact that part of the meteorite fell on the drive at a house in Winchcombe and the house owners realised there was something unusual so took care of it rather than throw it away.
@El Loro posted:No, it doesn't look at all special, Slim
Yes, I remember that headlining the news ...the house owners were very lucky not to have been on the drive at the time, it could have proved fatal
I believe the family have been selling it off bit by bit...
@slimfern posted:Yes, I remember that headlining the news ...the house owners were very lucky not to have been on the drive at the time, it could have proved fatal
I believe the family have been selling it off bit by bit...
The family set up this website about the meteorite:
https://winchcombemeteorite.org/
Quite interesting to read.
The tab headed Pigs is quite amusing.
(there's nothing on the Shop tab, so that, the Basket and Checkout tabs can be ignored)
@El Loro posted:The family set up this website about the meteorite:
https://winchcombemeteorite.org/
Quite interesting to read.
The tab headed Pigs is quite amusing.
(there's nothing on the Shop tab, so that, the Basket and Checkout tabs can be ignored)
night EL slim
Good morning everyone 
Some sunshine at present, though forecast to be quite cloudy. As yesterday, there is a risk of some showers (weren't any yesterday). The wind direction is still from the north so only a high of 11°. Chilly night with a low of 2°
Cheltenham won yesterday evening. A match they had to win to have any real chance of avoiding relegation. Got 3 games left though against teams in the top half of the table. Impossible to be relegated this weekend but I think they will need to win 2 of those 3 games,
I hope everyone has a good day
Hope all are Hunky Dory.
This is how mad it gets. My nana had Davy Jones on 8 track
You've gotta laugh
Interesting idea, a library of things:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/...cestershire-68816315
Charlton Kings is at the south east part of Cheltenham. (nowhere near Swindon Village shown in a search result, that's just outside Cheltenham in the north west 
)
@El Loro posted:Interesting idea, a library of things:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/...cestershire-68816315
Charlton Kings is at the south east part of Cheltenham. (nowhere near Swindon Village shown in a search result, that's just outside Cheltenham in the north west
It's a wonderful idea , though I don't see it being successful everywhere....
Who pays for the wear & tear repairs if the items are free to borrow or are they given free by the local trades/handypersons too I wonder....
@slimfern posted:It's a wonderful idea , though I don't see it being successful everywhere....
Who pays for the wear & tear repairs if the items are free to borrow or are they given free by the local trades/handypersons too I wonder....
That library of things is done through a number of Cheltenham and Gloucestershire community groups. I think the items may have come from those groups as they seem to include environmental ideas such as encouraging the recycling of items no longer needed. They may have received items, repair them if necessary, make sure they are safe and passed then on to that library.
night EL slim moonsiee velvet
Jawbone of an ichthyosaur found on the beach at Blue Anchor (which is near Minehead):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-68831349
Had a couple o summer holidays at Blue Anchor when young.
@El Loro posted:Jawbone of an ichthyosaur found on the beach at Blue Anchor (which is near Minehead):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-68831349
Had a couple o summer holidays at Blue Anchor when young.
Thatâs one big beast El 
@El Loro posted:Jawbone of an ichthyosaur found on the beach at Blue Anchor (which is near Minehead):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-68831349
Had a couple o summer holidays at Blue Anchor when young.
Looks like a cross between a whale and a shark ...those teeth
Thankfully they weren't around when you were there El
@Moonie posted:Thatâs one big beast El
@slimfern posted:Looks like a cross between a whale and a shark ...those teeth
Thankfully they weren't around when you were there El
No, I didn't spot one whilst at Blue Anchor
We mist have gone passed that jawbone some time as we did quite of lot of walking on the beach, sometimes getting as far a Minehead in one direction, and Watchet in the other so covered the entire stretch of the beach at Blue Anchor. The walk to Watchet was the more dramatic as my parents realised that the tide was coming in so we walked as fast as we could to get to Watchet. Got there in time, but it might have been a close thing if my parents hadn't realised,