Before getting onto this, just a warning that today’s “jazz” is not (cough) jazz as we know it from the 20s … two are different and later, one is from Fats Waller.
And so to AKH who mentioned that yesterday’s film was better than the reviews suggested. Reviews are tricky to give the right weight to … Rot Toms for a start are Critics’ Reviews, so grain of salt … IMDb are mixed … some US, some Brit, some old, some younger, some male, some female etc. Even selecting a “middling” rating review still does not hit it.
Same issue arose with this quaint Holmes. For a start, I like these two in the key roles and yes, the series is a strange Anglo-American mix but still entertaining for all that. See what you think.
5. Thank goodness nothing similar could happen over here
… under our Beloved Sausage:
4. DAD, sadly, is having cyber issues today
We wish him a speedy technological recovery and shall see his letter from la belle France demain. Meanwhile:
3. Flora and fauna
For someone who once had a gardening business for a short time … as a student, tending to the gardens of the horticulturally appreciative … it was best I got out while I did … neither flora nor fauna particularly entered my world, though they very much did that of my parents, herbaceous borders and all, gazebos in the garden.
Don’t get me wrong though … a person can appreciate flowers and furry creatures and they, in turn, might take a shine to you, sensing that liking … and yet … and yet … one’s world did not revolve around them.
“What’s that lovely thingy with the thorns?”
(Slowly, as if to an idiot) “A rose?”
“Yep, that’s the one.”
“And that thingy in the cage?”
“A rabbit?”
“You not worried about myxomatosis or blight?”
(Withering glare.)
Thing was … to my mind, dogs for example were always tragic … no one does pathos and devotion quite like a doggy … but it’s a fulltime job for fourteen or so years and there’s not one day of respite if you truly care for your best pal … a dog is truly not just for Christmas, nor a cat.
My venus flytrap also needs attention, needs to be split and repotted right now, has grown quite lush but then there’d have to be a renaming … not just Enid anymore but also Ethel, Elaine, Eva, Emma, Eloise, Eliza, Edith and so on … they’d soon take over the windowsill, not unlike triffids … and then where would we be?
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Rupert draws attention to the act which came into force July 25th. He called it a malign act masquerading as dogooding.
The usual detractors of the Act posted on it:
One commenter noted:
“Quite simply I never believed this was about anything else apart from control. Thankfully I have a VPN anyway so it hasn’t affected me.”
Soon, the only acceptable content is going to be in gardening and allotment accounts talking about chrysanthemums and azaleas for goodness sake. Incidentally, the language of flowers is a whole horticultural fiesta in itself … Christie used Miss Marple to refer to it.
Further down:
The language of flowers … worthy of Bletchley, would you not say? In this new era of state censorship?
