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@demurely1
You'd never guess, but I've been a fan of Len Deighton for 60 years.
I chose The Ipcress File as a 5th form school prize and never looked back. I loved his working class, unJamesBondish anti-heroes; his recurring use of trilogies: Game/Set/Match, Hook/Line/Sinker, Faith/Hope/Charity & his first person writing style.
Only recently I remarked on the similarity of the latest Night Manager denouement to that of Mamista
My favourite remains Horse Under Water
RIP Len Deighton 1929-2026
Drama Log 2023
This log is constructed according to ABF rules: I’ve recorded tv or film dramas viewed from Jan to Dec 2023 and graced by AB or one of his previous co-actors…. or some degree of separation …. or not….
Father Brown (10) Claudie Blakley, Aidan McArdle
His Dark Materials (3) Ruth Wilson, Will Keen, Andrew Scott, Victoria Hamilton
Our Flag Means Death Joel Fry, Rory Kinnear
Vera Patricia Potter
Mystery Road: Origin
The Rig
Better Anton Lesser
Carnival Row (2)
The Cleaner (2) Mark Lewis Jones
Great Expectations Olivia Colman
Magpie Murders Lesley Manville, Daniel Mays, Harry Lawtey
Dalgliesh Sam Hoare, Deborah Findley
Maryland Eve Best
Steeltown Murders Matthew Gravelle, Steve Nicolson
Annika Paul McGann
The Gallows Pole Samuel Edward-Cook
The Woman in the Wall Ruth Wilson
The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Alistair Petrie, Romola Garai
All Creatures Great and Small (4) Sam West, Anna Madeley, Paul Hilton
Cobra: Rebellion Robert Carlisle, Victoria Hamilton, Marsha Thomason, Lucy Cohu
Boat Story Daisy Haggard, Paterson Joseph, Kate Dickie
Shetland (8)
Vigil (2) Romola Garai, Amir El-Masry, Rose Leslie
Murder is Easy David Jonsson, Mathew Baynton, Tamzin Outhwaite
Drama Log 2022
This log is constructed according to ABF rules: I’ve recorded tv or film dramas viewed from Jan to Dec 2022 and graced by AB or one of his previous co-actors…. or some degree of separation …. or not….
The Witcher (2) - Eamon Farren, Anya Chalotra, Shaun Dooley
Alex Rider (2) - Otto Farrant, Vicky McClure, Nyasha Hatendi, Ace Bhatti, Stephen Dillane, Ronke Adekoluejo, Toby Stephens
Hidden Assets -
Trigger Point - Vicky McClure, Cal MacAninch
This is Going to Hurt - Alex Jennings
Peaky Blinders - Sophie Rundle
The Witchfinder - John Hollingworth, Michael Culkin, Ricky Tomlinson
Holding - Charlene McKenna
The Last Kingdom (5) - Mark Rowley, Millie Brady
Hidden (3)
Killing Eve (4) - Adeel Akhtar
The Ipcress File - Nora-Jane Noone
Gentleman Jack (2) - Sophie Rundle, Joe Armstrong, Shaun Dooley, Lucy Briers, John Hollingworth
The Favourite - Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, James Melville
45 Years - Charlotte Rampling
No Time To Die - Priyanga Burford
Derry Girls (3)
Yesterday - Ellise Chappell, Meera Syal, Joel Fry
Sherwood - Adeel Aktar, Ace Bhatti, Alun Armstrong, Lesley Manville, Lorraine Ashbourne, Joanne Froggatt, Sunetra Sarkar, David Morrissey, Lindsay Duncan
Shetland (7)
Bloodlands (2) - Charlene McKenna
Ridley - Aidan McArdle
Industry (2) - Sarah Parish, Freya Mavor
This England - Neil Stuke
Ghosts (4) - Jim Howick, Mathew Baynton
Strike: Troubled Blood - Kerr Logan, Ian Redford, Ben Crompton
The English -Stephen Rea, Toby Jones
Detectorists -Toby Jones
Waskerley way (June 2022)
This was a walk from Waskerley in the North Pennine AONB along the C2C cycle path through Burnhill Nature Reserve and back - a total distance of approx. 4.5km.
It was a warm, sunny day with a light breeze. The path follows an old railway track so walking (and cycling) is relatively easy. The view to the North across the Tyne valley was clear to the Cheviots.
Wild flowers grow on both sides of the track: red clover, common speedwell, northern marsh orchids, bird’s foot trefoil, common vetch, cuckooflower, common mouse ear, cat’s tooth & foxglove. These attract many bees and butterflies.
The pasture land on each side of the track is home to sheep, and many nesting birds. Curlew, lapwing, sky larks, chiffchaff, willow warbler, oystercatchers and a distant cuckoo could all be heard. A family of wrens took exception to my presence.
Lots of small white butterflies were on the wing, plus a wall brown, some small heath, a red admiral and some small pearl-bordered fritillaries.
Drama log (2021)
This log is constructed according to ABF rules: I’ve recorded tv or film dramas viewed from Jan to Dec 2021 and graced by AB or one of his previous co-actors…. or some degree of separation …. or not….
Traces - Vincent Regan, Phil McKee
Stages (2) - David Tennant
The Dig - Eamon Farren, Bronwyn James
Carnival Row (1) - Indira Varma, Matthew Gravelle, Mark Lewis Jones
Bloodlands - Charlene McKenna
Unforgotten (4) - Liz White, Peter Egan, Ronny Jhutti, David Schofield
Line of Duty (6) - Vicky McClure, Ace Bhatti
Keeping Faith (3) - Mark Lewis Jones, Eve Myles, Matthew Aubrey
Vigil - Paterson Joseph, Rose Leslie, Stephen Dillane, Cal McAninch
Vera (11) - Lorraine Ashbourne, Mark Benton
Back to Life (2) - Adeel Akhtar, Daisy Haggard, Meera Syal, Pip Carter
The North Water - Mark Rowley, Sam Spruel, Peter Mullan
Ghosts (3) - Jim Howick, Mathew Baynton
Endeavour (8) - John Hollingworth, Anton Lesser, James Bradshaw, Martin Hutson
All Creatures Great And Small (2) - Sam West, Anna Madeley, Amy Nuttall
Ridley Road - Tamzin Outhwaite, Eddie Marsan, Will Keen
Shetland -
Cobra: Cyberwar - Liam Garrigan
Dalgliesh - John Hollingworth, Jenny Howe
The Outlaws - Liam Garrigan, Nina Wadia
Doctor Who (13) - Jodie Whittaker, Jacob Anderson, Kevin McNally, Sam Spruell, Barbara Flynn, Annabel Scholey
Vienna Blood (2) - Charlene McKenna
The Girl Before - Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sam Hoare, Amanda Drew
The Mezzotint - Frances Barber
Around the World in 80 Days - David Tennant, Lindsay Duncan
Death in Paradise - Mathew Baynton
A Very British Scandal - Amanda Drew
Roman roads of Britain
Drama log (2020)
After a hiatus of one whole year, I was able to focus on dramas again this year. This log is constructed according to ABF rules: I’ve recorded tv or film dramas viewed from Jan to Dec 2020 and graced by AB or one of his previous co-actors…. or some degree of separation .... or not….
The Salisbury Poisonings - Anne-Marie Duff, Ron Cook
Normal People
Harlots (1,2,3) - Danny Sapani, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Lesley Manville, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Bronwyn James
Vera (10) - Cal MacAninch
Endeavour (7) - Anton Lesser
The Luminaries
The Last Kingdom (4) - Millie Brady, Mark Rowley
Ghosts - Jim Howick, Mathew Baynton
This Country - Paul Chahidi
All Creatures Great and Small - Sam West, Anna Madeley
Strike (3) - Kerr Logan, Lucy Briers
Alex Rider - Vicky McClure, Ace Bhatti, Nyasha Hatendi
Industry - Derek Riddell, Pip Carter, Freya Mavor, Sarah Parish
His Dark Materials (2) - Ruth Wilson, Will Keen, Andrew Scott, Sasha Frost, Kit Connor
Roadkill - Pippa Bennett-Warner, Millie Brady, Saskia Reeves
The Spanish Princess (2)
The Crown (4) - Olivia Colman, Tobias Menzies, Charles Dance, Stephen Boxer
Black Narcissus - Aisling Franciosi
Baghdad In My Shadow
Old Guard - Harry Melling
Enola Holmes - Adeel Akhtar, Hattie Morahan
The Mercy
The Midnight Sky - Sophie Rundle
The International Phonetic Alphabet consonants found in English, with keywords and relevant parts of the mouth highlighted and colour-coded. (Source.)
Pronouncing each of these in sequence is a very strange and amusing physical sensation, and I highly recommend it.
haha look it’s where those noises live in your dang FACE, TRY IT
My kid’s speech therapist had this chart and it was so interesting. It really helped me see where his speech issues were coming from.
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During self-isolation we are using the garden circuit for the daily walking exercise. 10 circuits is approximately 1km.
Thornfield - A Jane Eye Broadchurch AU
“Laws and principles are not for times when there is no temptation.“
A body is found on the beach in Thornfield, a small coastal town that relies heavily on the tourism business. The woman has no identification and no one recognizes her. Her identity is as much a mystery as how she died.
DI John Rivers has just arrived in town for a fresh start at a new jow. He almost doesn’t recognize the place until he drives past a school that is closed and falling into disrepair. Lowood. He was here some eight years ago to look into a case of possible fraud, but instead discovered a horrifying case of abuse against the girls boarding there.
Jane Eyre doesn’t like to talk about her past, or the brief time she was in the newspapers after the death of her best and only friend Helen. The one thing she holds onto from that time is an interest in the law. She’s a DS in Thornfield now. She remembers DI Rivers but hopes he doesn’t make the connection. She’s good at her job and doesn’t need his pity.
Their investigation leads them to the door of Edward Rochester, the richest man in town. Jane finds herself drawn to him, even suspecting he knows more about the dead woman than he pretends. Rivers cautions her not to become emotionally involved with a case, but there’s something about him that touches her in a way no one else has. And then there’s the girl, his young ward Adele. Once, before Lowood, she’d been the lonely little ward in a grand house too.
Guests are gathered at Rochester’s home. Was the woman on the beach one of them? Does the haughty Miss Ingram know anything? Why is Mr. Mason so nervous when they talk to him? What role does Grace Poole play in the household?
Rivers needs to solve a case after the last one ended so badly. Jane needs to know who she can trust.
Where we'll be when the UK crashes out with no deal (Jan 1st 2021).
Princess Alice
So, I’m working my way through season 3 of The Crown (those who know me here, know precisely why). I’ve not watched previous seasons, mainly because I haven’t been particularly interested, and anyway, I grew up in the late 50s & 60s obsessed with the Royal Family, so I thought I knew everything there was to know. I also have (I thought) a fairly good recall of British social and political history of the mid-sixties. I always watched the tv news bulletins and read our daily newspaper. I remember Harold Wilson and the Labour party winning the General Elections of 1964 & 1966. The Aberfan disaster (ep3) is a vivid memory - it happened during my first term at secondary school.
Last night I watched ep4 Bubbikins.
I spent the first ten minutes wondering what was going on.
Who could this woman be? I thought Jane Lapotaire was playing Princess Alice? I remember her, she was my mother’s favourite Royal! Even so, in my memory I didn’t associate Princess Alice with the Duke of Edinburgh - at all! She was just an elderly member of the royal family, rolled out for ceremonials and weddings. Furthermore the Princess Alice I remembered looked like royalty - not an orthodox nun!
The rest of ep4 did more or less match my memory of events (notwithstanding the portrayal of watching tv at breakfast time. That wouldn’t arrive for another ten years!) I watched the original Royal Family documentary, along with everyone else in the UK. I don’t recall much criticism of it at the time, other than the usual anti-royal comments. I do remember thinking how boring their lives must be. According to the real-life timeline, Princess Alice died six months after the documentary was broadcast in 1969.
A little research about Princess Alice did resolve my confusion, however.
The Princess Alice that I remember, my mother’s favourite, was in fact the Duchess of Gloucester.
She was married to Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the third son of George V - uncle of Elizabeth II. She too has quite a backstory! She survived until 2004 - at the ripe old age of 102.
The Princess Alice (that I don’t remember) was Alice of Battenberg. Or more correctly: Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark. I don’t think I was ever aware of her living with the Royals. I certainly never saw any images such as this:
Then there’s that ‘interview’ that apparently warmed all our hearts? Well, regarding the Bubbikins version of events, The Independent newspaper writes:
In reality, such an interview never happened, however, and Princess Alice was not revered to the extent The Crown implies. On the contrary, she was largely forgotten.
Hugo Vicker’s biography, Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece, said: “By the end of her life the general public scarcely remembered that she was alive and were largely unaware that she was at Buckingham Palace, according to Esquire.
Her obituary was reported to feature in the newspapers, but not on the scale of the piece shown in The Crown.
I guess that explains my ignorance. I hadn’t forgotten about her - I’ve never known about her!
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