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Good morning all 

Dry and bright atm but there may be light showers later.

Mr Y has cut the grass and I have swept up.

Getting my haircut this afternoon. My hairdresser had to retire as she has rheumatoid arthritis and for several reasons it’s taken me a while to find a new one. My hair is so badly needing cut, I shall do a happy dance as well as a twirl once it’s done  - assuming I’m happy with the cut 

Have a good day, everyone 

Yogi19

Steve Smith still in so England will probably lose this test match unless rain intervenes. Likely result of the 5 match test series is Smith 5 England 0.

 

Best test batsman in the world according to the ICC:
2015 Smith
2016 Smith
2017 Smith
then he got banned for a year re that ball tampering incident so affects the 2018 and this year's rating - he's currently 4th.

El Loro
El Loro posted:

Steve Smith still in so England will probably lose this test match unless rain intervenes. Likely result of the 5 match test series is Smith 5 England 0.

 

Best test batsman in the world according to the ICC:
2015 Smith
2016 Smith
2017 Smith
then he got banned for a year re that ball tampering incident so affects the 2018 and this year's rating - he's currently 4th.

 

I'm not huge on cricket El but even I know he's special  

VD

Twickers, Squiggle quite often doesn't post here on a Sunday. Yogi could be visiting family or vice versa.

 

Midsomer Murders is more Oxfordshire/Buckinghamshire though it's quite common for people to think of the Cotswolds. The Cotswolds are part Gloucestershire, part Oxfordshire. However the Chilterns are part Oxfordshire/part Buckinghamshire.  On the other hand Father Brown is filmed more in Gloucestershire so I think of that more as Cotwolds. Morse/Endeavour/Lewis is of course Oxfordshire so between Father Brown and Midsomer Murders. Then Agatha Raisin is based in Wiltshire so south of Gloucestershire.

El Loro

Good morning all 

Cloudy weather with thundery showers forecast.

Squiggle, it’s a relief to find a new hairdresser.

lol Summer, I’ve watched the Miss Marples so often, I know the scripts, never mind who the culprits are.  I’ve read lots of the books too - some of the tv series changed/tweaked things.

Off to visit my parents. Have a good day, everyone.

Yogi19

Yogi, I hope you have a nice time with your parents

 

I think it was the ITV series which really changed the Miss Marple stories with the last one Endless Night beaing based on a non-Miss Marple book. Though only one of the 4 Margaret Rutherford films was based on a Miss Marple book, two of them were derived from Poirot books and one of them had no connection with any Agatha Christie writing.  Of course the Joan Hickson ones are the most authentic.

 

El Loro

Afternoon troops   

 

I echo El's sentiment Yogi and hope you have a nice time and that they are alright  

 

Grass is short and the house is tidy so I might try and solve another crime this afternoon. About to make a curry so if you hear of an explosion in North Lanarkshire on tonight's main news you'll know who it was.

 

Hope all are well and have a good day   

VD

Talking of explosions, I watched a 1952 British film called "Child's Play" (nothing whatsoever to do with those Chucky horror films). Needless to say it was on the Talking Pictures channel. A light hearted family film about some children who make their own miniature atomic bomb then go into making popcorn - I'm not winding you up. At no point is there any sense of realism or tension which is why at the time it got a U certificate.  As it's light hearted and unrealistic it's quite watchable.

 

The only two children you may have heard of were Christopher Beeny who did quite a lot of television work as an adult and Anneke Wills (best known as Polly, one of the Doctor Who companions (back in the William HartnellPatrick Troughton era). Of the adults, the best known in a key role was Mona Washbourne.

 

In a tiny role, though immediately recognisable, in his first feature film was Peter Sallis. Of course he was Wallace of Wallace & Gromit fame, those light hearted family films & television programmes about them making fantastastical inventions.

El Loro
El Loro posted:

Yogi, I hope you have a nice time with your parents

 

I think it was the ITV series which really changed the Miss Marple stories with the last one Endless Night beaing based on a non-Miss Marple book. Though only one of the 4 Margaret Rutherford films was based on a Miss Marple book, two of them were derived from Poirot books and one of them had no connection with any Agatha Christie writing.  Of course the Joan Hickson ones are the most authentic.

 

Thanks El, they were on good form 

 

Yes, it was the ITV series which made some changes. 

Initially, I didn’t like the ITV series -  I prefer Joan Hickson as Miss Marple - but, I enjoy it now.

Yogi19
velvet donkey posted:

Afternoon troops   

 

I echo El's sentiment Yogi and hope you have a nice time and that they are alright  

 

Grass is short and the house is tidy so I might try and solve another crime this afternoon. About to make a curry so if you hear of an explosion in North Lanarkshire on tonight's main news you'll know who it was.

 

Hope all are well and have a good day   

Thanks Velvet, they were on good form.

 

lol I didn’t hear of any explosion so I hope that’s a good sign that the curry turned out well 

Yogi19

Still busy with client work, Summer

 

Just come back from doing routine shopping at the local Co-op. I managed to get a ÂĢ1 box of biscuits for a minus ÂĢ4.10 .  In this part of the country there's a 10% discount on Tuesdays at the Co-op if you are over 60 and have a member's card. They had also sent some vouchers and the one I had left was ÂĢ5 off if you spent over ÂĢ20. I had totted up the amounts in my head as I was going around the shop. I had worked out that I had bought about ÂĢ22 so after 10% discount that's just under ÂĢ20. So by getting those biscuits I was able to use up that ÂĢ5 voucher. One of the perks of being good at mental arithmetic.

El Loro

And now for a spot of culture.

A 1934 Russian film which won't be one you are likely to have ever seen. However the music for the film is more likely to be familiar. The composer's name is shown in the credits at 20 seconds in. If you know Russian, you'll recognise the title of the film and the composer's name. If you are familiar with the music you would recognise the music near the beginning.

 

If you haven't got any idea skip to 46 minutes in as that's when the best known piece of music starts.

 

If you don't know it then don't worry as you would be in good company. Yesterday's University Challenge had it in the music round and the Birmingham University team were hopeless - Vaughan Williams was not remotely close.

El Loro

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