What are you all up to
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I hope you are right brue. Also I hope the end of the music festival scene will also help. However there will be a few thousand infections as result in the meantime unfortunately as so many young people are not vaccinated.
None of the youngsters in our family wear an ordinary watch. They usually use their fitbits or their phones. (They would like Apple watches but their parents say No.....🤣)
We have just watched a Joan Hickson Miss Marple on BBC4. She was the best Miss Marple in my opinion. I must see if I can find some more somewhere. Any ideas where?
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Thank you Oneputt. I will investigate. Nice to see you on here again. Hope you are well. How are the twins?
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Millie, try UKTV Drama as Oneputt suggests, although they might not be scheduled at the moment. Another very good website I use for old TV programmes is dailymotion.com.
You do need to search on Dailymotion though, as the episodes don’t always come up in the right order, and on some the playback quality isn’t good. We had a full set of the Joan Hickson videos, long gone now. But agree, she was excellent, and they didn’t mess around too much with the stories.
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👍 Thanks WN.
Nellie, you could add Mells too, of "little Jack Horner" fame, another interesting old part of Somerset.
Thanks again brue. Looks as if we will find lots of new places to visit.
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Millie
BBC4 TV seem to featuring a lot of Agatha Christie at the moment. We watched the re-run of Ordeal by Innocence with Bill Nighy, apparently this has previously been a Miss Marple one but this adaptation doesn't include her. It's altogether darker than the way AC's work is often portrayed on TV. Probably why you prefer Joan Hickson as she played it in a more serious manner?
David
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The new generation of Christie mysteries are a bit marmite for me. Some are superb, I am thinking “And Then There Were None”, the one with Charles Dance and Aidan Turner set on the island, but others have been a complete re working of some of the stories, and whilst the sets and period costumes have been extremely well done, the mishmash reworking of endings etc leaves a lot to be desired. Still enjoy the odd Suchet Poirot, but I started watching Ken Branagh’s MOTOE and gave up after 20 minutes. Again great period details, but his Poirot was woeful.
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Thanks for your replies brue and WN looking forward to it.
As to watches OH has a french made watch looks normal watch but does heart rate and step counter too. complicated for me I have a choice of about 3 or 4 old one for doing chores and better ones for going out none expensive though, friends of our never used to wear watches for about 20 years and now they wear one all the time.
Two hot days here 30C today and 31C tomorrow so chores in the morning before it gets to hot as I have some lavender to trim and dry as I use it in small pillows that I made a few years ago so refresh each year and a friend has some as well, when we were at the tip the other day a lady came with her bag of garden waste and full of lavender clippings shame to waste it but I like to use mine.
Enjoy your trip to N.Devon we were there 3 years ago in Autumn.
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I always wear the old watch that I spent my pennies {!!} buying when I came out of my apprenticeship -- Last time it got serviced I was told that they wouldn't be able to handle it again -- time expired like it's owner I suppose
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We both always wear a watch. I would be lost without it, in fact the battery has recently gone on mine and I’m constantly looking at my bare wrist!! OH requested, and bought, a new top quality watch for his 70th birthday a few years ago. We don’t always have phones with us, or at least don’t always look at them, so we need a watch.
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I always feel undressed without a watch, also a 60th birthday present. Seems that birthdays with a zero warrant a timepiece. As if we needed reminding that tempus fugits.
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Maybe its the difference between those made for TV and those made for film. The film ones seem more about the actors than the story? It would be interesting to know how AC herself would have liked her characters to be portrayed. Clearly the stories can be interpreted in many ways. I just wonder what Poirot and Marple would be like if portrayed in a more serious manner?
David
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OH wears a cheap Amazon watch for work (costing about £5/7). It doesn’t get broken, but lost. Not sure how - once was when doing some draining, it will be there for archaeologists to find. I always have a spare. Too much faff for him to get his phone out to check if it’s dinner time. He has an old gold pocket watch for best.
I stopped wearing a watch about 15/20 years ago, but for my 70th birthday I persuaded OH to let me buy an Apple Watch. I don’t use it for all the fitness stuff, but it keeps me in touch with whatever I want to be kept in touch with.
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If he used his phone he could set the alarm for dinner time
David
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I'm also an Apple watch fan - on my second one now. Only trouble is, I can't see much on it without my specs on!! Can thoroughly recommend getting a screen protector though, since I managed to crack the face of my last one although I haven't a clue how.
Most useful feature, in my opinion, is being able to send / receive phone calls and texts - "Beam me up Scottie"
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I nearly got an Apple Watch r&r but I got hung up on the 3 day battery😕. I ended up with a Garmin Fenix not as good a range of widgets as Apple but it’ll do until Apple get a 7+ day battery👍🏻
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I had a watch for one of my birthdays and I was most disappointed (aged 9 or 10 years.)
I've still got it, I like the old wind up watches, no batteries to worry about but that particular watch was for a very small wrist, a Timex I think?0 -
We went to Waitrose this morning and decided to have a coffee in their cafe for the first time in about 20 months!!! I was treated to a bacon ciabatta!!!! Gone are all the settees and the tables that remain were well spaced our, far more than two metres apart. No empty shelves in the supermarket but quite a few less well filled ones. Did our good deed for the day by filling a bag for the local foodbank. Amongst the donations required list was spaghetti hoops, duly added.
I don't know about anyone else but we are finding it quite cold at home - in August!!! We seemed to have had day after day of dull weather which has just not warmed up. I can see the heating going on soon! Might try and brave it out until the first day of September, only just over 12 hours!!!
David
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We have now moved site to home turf ,county council still not been in touch with when mods to house to assist OH get around at home safely will be installed
Nice condolence cards at home for us from local vets and Royal vet college, lovely thoughts but not helpful at this time
Just an aside before we left FM the last of the Lincs centre rallyers were leaving the rally field and were quite put out when two were stopped by on site members to be advised of the speed limit
, I was just getting ready to leave, there were quite some raised voices
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My first watch was an Ingersoll, a 6th birthday present from my Nan and Pop. Still got it, but cannot get it repaired, insides too delicate. I had a Snoopy watch for years, his arms (legs?) went round to tell the time. Still got this too. Got around half a dozen other watches as well, but my Fitbit only comes off now in shower. So easy to use.
We are on our first CL, at Moreton. Good ride down, set off early and avoided motorway, all but 10 miles of M1. It’s blinking cool down here though, warmer in Yorkshire😁
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Day didn't start off as expected. All week the farmer has been moving machinery bits around for hours in the large corrugated iron barn right behind tha CL area. He starts at 6 a.m. and ends about 8 ish. Blooming nuisance.😂 Mrs WN says he's not getting a Christmas Card. That'll teach him.
Of course this morning when we wanted to be woken as it's a travelling day he didn't. 😤😤😤 So we overslept!!
We were informed by satnav that our preferred route had closures for some reason so we took route B. Not having much luck on travelling days at the moment. Anyway we arrived some 3 hours later in North Devon and set up ok. Off for a stroll then planning for tomorrow.
Bike ride methinks.
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Never really got into watches or watch wearing. Strange as I'm a stickler for time keeping. Drives Mrs WN mad.😂 Especially when I was working as I would always make appointments to see clients.
Somehow not having a watch, or in those days a mobile phone, didn't seem to hinder me. Used to use car timepiece or the radio to keep a track of it.
Still do not own a watch.
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Took the car in for it's annual service and MOT this morning. Decided to sit and wait for it to be completed, catching up with writing a couple of reviews and some reading. It failed on an indicator bulb having blown, which was a surprise as there had been no warning of it having gone. Thankfully that was all that had to be corrected and as I was leaving the car with them there was no retest. They were able to get one and replace it, although it was about 3:00 pm when I finally got away. While I was waiting for the bulb to be delivered and fitted I went for a pleasant walk, for a breath of air really, into Levens village, which I hadn't visited for a long time.
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Of course this morning when we wanted to be woken as it's a travelling day he didn't. 😤😤😤 So we overslept!!
Pleased to read that you got a good night's sleep, WN, for a change.😁 You do seem to be having route problems, hope that we avoid them when we get down that way.
Good to hear that both you and tda are all set upon your chosen sites. How is your's?
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It seems fine at the moment Nellie. Mrs WN says that your OH will really enjoy the last mile to get to it.😄
It was really nice of the previous occupiers dog to leave us some presents. Pity they weren't gift wrapped otherwise we may have posted them back to it.🤗
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