Good morning everyone 
Sunny, breezy but no rain forecast here. Though we did have some overnight. A high of 20 degrees forecast for today 
I hope you all have a good day and as always, stay safe 
Morning troops
Overcast and not warm. Oh to be 3/400 miles south. If dreaming's allowed - it would be 5/600 miles straight to Dorset.
Hope all are well and staying alert. Comical.
Have a good day all
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Had one of those electricity tariff phone calls today. First one for quite a few weeks. I ended the call quickly and had a look at the phone number on the caller display. Previous cphone numbers have been randon land line numbers but this time it was a mobile phone number.
Did a search on that number and found that there have been quite a number of reports made regarding that number - but about the computer tech support scams.
Shows what I suspected all along. Those electricity tariff phone calls are scammers.
Not had a scammer for ages 
When a scammer deletes your phone number you are truly alone.
@velvet donkey posted:Not had a scammer for ages
When a scammer deletes your phone number you are truly alone.
It's been weeks since I had one and I may know why you and I haven't. The majority of those calls seem to come from India. Because of the lockdown there, people haven't been able to go to where they work. Lockdown is starting to be lifted so these scam calls could start to increase. I'm not saying this is definite but it does seem plausible.
Latest film I've seen from the Talking Pictures channel was "Cloak and Dagger" (1946). Directed by Fritz Lang, one of his lesser films, but still of interest. Could be regarded as his third of a trilogy of World War 2 based spy thrillers. First was Man Hunt (1941) and second was Ministry of Fear (1944) which are very good films.
Gary Cooper as a scientist called up by the American OSS to meet a former colleague in Switzerland who has escaped from Germany - the Germans are working to create some nuclear bombs. The OSS was the American equivalent of MI6. Film is sort of a precursor to a James Bond film. There's even a fight scene which is a bit reminiscent of a Sean Connery fight scene.
Lead woman was played by Lilli Palmer. For those of you with long memories she was in the short lived TV series "The Zoo Gang" (1974), only 6 episodes were made. The other members of the Zoo Gang were Brian Keith, Barry Morse and John Mills.
Also in the cast was Robert Alda. I've hardly ever seen him. 36 at the time of the film and I could see the similarity between him at that age and his son Alan Alda who was of the same age when he started in M*A*S*H (the series, not the film).
Not much on there at the mo. Recorded a doc about the Burmese war yesterday.
For comparison, the fight scene in "Cloak and Dagger":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpcF-kGS8DA
and the elevator fight scene in "Diamonds are Forever":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA_dRgqiIZg
A warning that both scenes are brutal, hence the links rather than embedding them.
@velvet donkey posted:Not much on there at the mo. Recorded a doc about the Burmese war yesterday.
Didn't record that though I see it was directed by Roy Boulting. I see from the schedule that Tallking Pictures later showed Suddenly (1954). Frank Sinatra as an out and out baddy. Only seen it once and I don't want to re-see it but it's got quite a notorious reputation as it's the film that Lee Harvey Oswald supposedly watched before assassinating JFK. A black and white film though there's a colourised version in which Sinatra's eyes are coloured brown.
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros
Hug for the night owls
@Yogi19 posted:Would you like to swap
sorry yogi was gorgeous here
night yogi moonsie velvet summer if you are around
Good morning everyone there's thick mist this morning, I think it will burn off soon though.
Enjoy your day everyone
Good morning all
Iâm glad to say, itâs sunny up here today
Moonie, Iâve got a load in the washing machine and it will soon be hanging on the line
Have a good day and stay safe, everyone
@Yogi19 posted:Good morning all
Iâm glad to say, itâs sunny up here today
Moonie, Iâve got a load in the washing machine and it will soon be hanging on the line
Have a good day and stay safe, everyone
Good morning Yogi
Excellent. Iâm pleased you have the weather for hanging washing out today
Coffs...first lot of washing on the line, second and final lot in the washer 
EDIT...the first lot was done overnight though 
@Moonie posted:Good morning Yogi
Excellent. Iâm pleased you have the weather for hanging washing out today
Coffs...first lot of washing on the line, second and final lot in the washer
EDIT...the first lot was done overnight though
You are the King of washing
@El Loro posted:I don't have any washing to do today
Actually I am washing my handkerchief/mask as present as I've just been shopping at the local Co-op.
Although they have put direction arrows on the floor between aisles they haven't really thought about it:
Say there are 6 aisles the markings are:
Front of shop
â â â â â â
Back of shop
with the result rhat the arrows are near useless
@El Loro posted:Actually I am washing my handkerchief/mask as present as I've just been shopping at the local Co-op.
Although they have put direction arrows on the floor between aisles they haven't really thought about it:
Say there are 6 aisles the markings are:
Front of shop
â â â â â â
Back of shopwith the result rhat the arrows are near useless
You have joined the Yogi, Bazzy and myself washing club El
I agree about the marking arrows 
The green snow of Antarctica
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-52737603
Re Fritz Lang. one of his best American films was Fury (1936) which starred Spencer Tracy. I've only seen it once. BBC One on Saturday, 20 September 1969 at 20.15.
A very good film indeed but harrowing. Worth watching if you ever get a chance to. One of Tracy's best films.
That's good memory
Didn't he take time out from filming and lie in a bath getting hammered? Or is it a myth?
Hope all are hunky dory.
@velvet donkey posted:That's good memory
Didn't he take time out from filming and lie in a bath getting hammered? Or is it a myth?
Hope all are hunky dory.
Fury is a memorable film. I knew that I had seen it on BBC on a Saturday. The BBC Genome site is a database of Radio Times editions covering BBC television and radio and it was fairly easy to do a search to get the exact date and time.
According to Wiki, Tracy could stay off drink for months, even years but then would relapse and binge drink. Don't know if what you posted is true or not but it could be.
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros
Hug for any night owls
night yogi moonsie velvet summer if you pop in
Good morning everyone it's looking like it will be a sunny day today although it's a little cloudy at the moment. I saw yesterday in America they were stencilling arrows on the pavement!
Enjoy your day everyone