The journey home was via Whitehall Garden Center near Lacock (Pronounced Lay-Cock. You boy!, stop sniggering at the back!), where I happen to be of very close terms with their annual Father Christmas. Needed some netting to protect the veggie patch.
Finally arrived back by 5 and cooked a fantastic spaghetti bol for dinner (we know how to live you know).
6pm was perfect timing for the first portion of Going Postal or as the film version is titled "Terry Pratchett's Going Postal". I know he's got Alzheimer's disease but I don't think he has a gun - so the title is a tad harsh. It transpires that the production team "The Mob" have upped thier game even further than on "The Colour if Magic". This time much of the filming took place in Budapest but you'd be forgiven for thinking they actually went to discworld (if such a place existed in the same plane of reality as we do) given the detail applied to the sets and location scenery.
Once again it's very faithful to the book not least because the screenplay was "mucked about by" Mr Pratchett himself. A few masterful strokes of casting help seal the deal. Great to see that newsreaders brother David Suchet is capable of so much more than Hercule Poirot (a role he was clearly born to play). Here he makes for a deliciously wicked bad guy and so far is faultless. Star of the show is Richard Coyle as Moist von Lipwig but he's got some heafty competition in the firm of Charles Dance, Steve Pemberton (The League of Gentlemen), Andrew Sachs (Fawlty Towers) and Timothy West to name but four.
Can't wait for part two tonight.
Today would gave been Cheese Rolling. Roll on next year (very poor pun intended). Here's the official notice http://www.cheese-rolling.co.uk/event_cancelled.htm which makes for interesting reading. You have been warned. Two minutes silence for the passing of a
Great British tradition please:
While the sun shines and the Cheese doesn't roll, I have lawn to mow (I know how much Scobi likes to keep track of my grass cutting schedule) and of course netting to install. That will be part of the morning filled. No idea what the rest of the day has in store fir us, but with any luck it'll be feet up with nothing at all!!! Bliss....
Finally arrived back by 5 and cooked a fantastic spaghetti bol for dinner (we know how to live you know).
6pm was perfect timing for the first portion of Going Postal or as the film version is titled "Terry Pratchett's Going Postal". I know he's got Alzheimer's disease but I don't think he has a gun - so the title is a tad harsh. It transpires that the production team "The Mob" have upped thier game even further than on "The Colour if Magic". This time much of the filming took place in Budapest but you'd be forgiven for thinking they actually went to discworld (if such a place existed in the same plane of reality as we do) given the detail applied to the sets and location scenery.
Once again it's very faithful to the book not least because the screenplay was "mucked about by" Mr Pratchett himself. A few masterful strokes of casting help seal the deal. Great to see that newsreaders brother David Suchet is capable of so much more than Hercule Poirot (a role he was clearly born to play). Here he makes for a deliciously wicked bad guy and so far is faultless. Star of the show is Richard Coyle as Moist von Lipwig but he's got some heafty competition in the firm of Charles Dance, Steve Pemberton (The League of Gentlemen), Andrew Sachs (Fawlty Towers) and Timothy West to name but four.
Can't wait for part two tonight.
Today would gave been Cheese Rolling. Roll on next year (very poor pun intended). Here's the official notice http://www.cheese-rolling.co.uk/event_cancelled.htm which makes for interesting reading. You have been warned. Two minutes silence for the passing of a
Great British tradition please:
While the sun shines and the Cheese doesn't roll, I have lawn to mow (I know how much Scobi likes to keep track of my grass cutting schedule) and of course netting to install. That will be part of the morning filled. No idea what the rest of the day has in store fir us, but with any luck it'll be feet up with nothing at all!!! Bliss....
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