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15. Moo corner

14. Fine

13. Heat pumps

12. Powered by diesel

11. Ethnicity

IYE brought Miss Marple earlier … did I post and get on with the next job? Did I heck … I watched 3×54 mins of it, thinking what to have tomorrow apart from Dragnet.

Suddenly youtube dropped William Powell and Myrna Loy in Shadow of Thin Man in my lap … had to check out the embeddability … yep, fine but British audiences and modern American might not know about this pair.

Essentially, we’re talking screen chemistry and knowing the back story helps too. The pair might not grab you, especially in this slightly lesser third episode but it sure grabbed audiences, that whole series … they could not get enough late 30s till just postwar. I’m sure you can guess why, given the tough wartime and the need for wisecracking comedy.

What audiences also picked up on was the real chemistry too between the the protagonists … the audiences could not get enough, plus the copy is excellent … someone has done a labour of love there. When I was in Russia, similar happened with what they called staroye kino or old cinema … if one such filum was on tele, I observed natives dropping everything, grabbing a drink and sitting around, watching. With the end of communism, it was their equivalent of us and the US.

That’s why the notion of outposts of Christendom being at war with other outposts is sheer bleedin’ stoopid. Or else the psychos above us are pushing this … which is a theme at this blog.

Anyway, Rupert yesterday was goaded into attacking “ethnats” … see the misuse of the label, and Restorers know that behind this was Alistair Hilton, his “media manager” who calls this BNP types, fascists … doing the Left’s work for them.

Stoopid Rupert was doing this Faragist backtracking. Reaction was swift:

Did I ever go out on the street shouting: “Down with Russia, Rule Britannia!” Did I ever try that in the States or Canada? Did I suddenly insist, if the family were watching a movie, to take it out and put one of mine instead? That sort of thing is beyond the pale.

Attitude. Behaviour. When in someone else’s country.

So WTF was Rupert trying to pull?

 

Via Steve:

 

It’s either a Dragnet or IYE’s Miss Marple. Doesn’t matter, imho, how mant times I’ve seen both … they’re both good.

But in the case of …

The Body in the Library

… it’s simply a classic. All Joan Hicksons had that je ne sais quoi.

(0941) Jobs, tasks, errands. (0953)

 

10. Moo corner

9. Bloody bureaucrats

8. Colombian Tiger

7. IYE

Soaking in a solution of bicarb of soda first gets rid of some residues. (url in comments)

6. The horse’s backside appears to have resigned

So now it will be from appalling to far worse. End of.

Cunning plan at 0712 is that, with only about four news items, plus with Starmer still not having spoken, this post I’d ordinarily put after Mon 6 to 10 is now.

The newer Logan/Stevenson episodes:

A more detailed list is on this page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Temple

In the context of those lists, then the one we had yesterday, Sunday, was the last ever attempted, made in 2013, using old style mics but better SFX and sound quality. It was clearly a labour of love for all and well done, say I.

At the other end, 1938 … well they do not exist, except in other casts trying to recreate them, with next to no effects. Frankly, they’re not good, the script is trite, parts missing. Not worth it.

I went back to the first Coke/Westbury in 1968 and in showing signs of ageing, it was the real thing of that time.

Right, why I am I making such a big thing out of the series as a whole? Well, “reimagined” series, modern actors, modern production values, manners, nature of people … these certainly lose all old-worldly charm … but in the 2013 Gregory Affair, they lost none of it. Ditto with the Rupert Davies’ Maigrets.

That needs preserving, archiving.

 

At least it begins with potatoes but soon moves to strawbs, oranges etc.

Usual formulaic opener “shocking”, usual everything, not sure if AI, think not.

Also, they mention a Greenpeace report. That lot? Consumer watch groups have tended to be leftwing since the 50s but now they seem to be into loopy things like Net Zero, the IPCC and other lunacies, not to mention the forcing of sicko sexuality to children at fatherless home and school.

The true consumerwatch work seems to be done now by the nonWoke.

In practical terms, I cut the “bad” bits out and peel the rest … with potatoes and carrots but not with apples, all of which I wash before cooking. Fruit? Blueberries and bananas, washing the blueberries in the pack in a tub before using. Frankenstrawbs and frankengrapes today … no, I avoid.

Having said all that, when I do mixed veg, I bubble in pan first, drain, refill and finish cooking. I used to pan fry steak, now boiling it, using the runoff as soup base.

(0526) Morning all. Quick check of X and nothing much except what we know, reworded … at this stage of the morning of course. Now, on Two Tier, no point speculating at this pount … let’s see how it pans out after 8 a.m., then take stock. (0602)

 

5. Er … yes … ok

4. Steve at 1419

• Trump Hits Historic Border Milestone: 13 Straight Months with Zero Illegal Aliens Released into the US
• Pirro Says Vandals Who Poured Corrosive Chemicals in Lincoln Reflecting Pool will Face Serious Charges
• There is a Path” – Tulsi Gabbard Says Fauci Can be Prosecuted for Lying to Congress Despite Pre-emptive Pardon
• Russia Strikes Bridges In Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine Targets Maritime Approaches To Crimea
• Study Links Ultraprocessed Foods to Cognitive Decline; Processed Meat Shows Strongest Association
• Push-Up Capacity Linked to Lower Cardiovascular Disease Risk, Study Finds
• Much more.

3. Public notice

2. DAD at 1419

a) Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally, said he would like to “put the Commission and the EU back at the service of the nations and no longer the other way around”….

b) French president hopeful Bruno Retailleau wants mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders….

c) Wife of Spanish PM Pedro Pedro Sánchez has passport revoked as court orders corruption trial. The case is one of several corruption affairs….

1. Lord Toby’s site

He quotes from the Wail:

“Police “guided” the family of a hotel worker in “toning down” their public statements after she was murdered by an asylum seeker – in case their words led to anti-immigration rioting. Rhiannon Whyte, 27, was stabbed 23 times with a screwdriver by Sudanese national Deng Majek while waiting at a train station in October 2024.

Majek, 28, who was sentenced to 29 years in prison in January, then spent the night dancing and drinking in the car park of Park Inn Hotel in Bescot, Walsall, where Rhiannon worked. Her death came three months after the fatal stabbings of three young girls in Southport by 17 year-old Axel Rudakubana, a British citizen of Rwandan descent.”

(1821) Evening all. Hope Steve had a wunnerful bday.

 

15. At a recent jolly

14. Wisdom?

13. Disease of the soul

12. Sutherland and other traitors

11. Moment of reckoning

 

Thing today is I might be Paul Templing when 1600 ticks over, so warning AKH might be a tall order today.

 

This is where I, the redactor/editor/bottlewasher, am in a slight quandary. There are no films in the queue just now, no short morning features but there is jazz, coming up soon today. In one sense, it’s overkill to run the Paul Temple which might just be the “best one ever”, to almost “squander” it on an already full Sunday.

Were it a film, I’d not … too late in the afternoon, but this 4 hours 30 mins ten-parter is simply fab … I can’t get away from it myself … and I’m thinking to myself that I should not be keeping this back while I have it … not when I know there are fellow aficionados who’d like it. More after the play …

I do recall we did have it a few years back, likely at N.O. … but why would I not have run it again? 🤔 At that stage, I was not quite as au fait with the series history, with the protagonist pairs, but of late, this “return to”, later series has quite stood out, due to Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson … the producers and cast are marvellous, it retains the old mystique.

Plus the main pair are without as many sharp edges, with less stridency, and she in particular is more 3D. This story? Talk about convoluted. Once you can buy the formulaic, realising it’s a good formula, I’m thinking you might be pleasantly surprised. Plus the bridgeman overexplaining the episode connections is, imho, quite fun.

Anyway, this is for those who’d like to rest their eyes for a few hours. I’ll still start the jazz about 1600.