tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post4318845081240335515..comments2023-10-12T15:59:35.120+01:00Comments on radiogandy: Weekend Off - Y's hair - Shoppingtracyjameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00914991294683176018noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-28718013084291104482008-10-18T11:16:00.000+01:002008-10-18T11:16:00.000+01:00DIARYHaving paged that I thought Hud would have be...DIARY<BR/>Having paged that I thought Hud would have been better in technicolour, I now feel obliged to include the following extract from The Observer TV Paper.<BR/>“The film (Hud) brought deserved Oscars to Patricia Neal … Melvyn Douglas … and cinematographer James Wong Howe for his fine monochrome images.”<BR/>I watched ‘The Road to Perdition’ last night. I thought Paul Newman gave a good performance but that Tom Hanks took his chance to shine, playing a bigger, serious role in what was, in fact, an updated Western. But then, ‘The Magnificent Seven’ was an updated medieaval Japanese story. <BR/><BR/>You will see below that I managed to rescue about 4oz of the pig’s cheek and turn it into something edible, even rather tasty. Shan’t bother again though despite a decent dish of dripping.<BR/><BR/>BLOG COMMENT<BR/>The melon/moon leaves me feeling as I did when, no matter how often I looked, I was unable to detect the rust which was considered to reside in my rifle barrel. <BR/>In the end I surrendered and agreed that I could see it, just to stop them going on at me. <BR/>I got 3 days Confined to Barracks which does not mean precisely that and is a much more unpleasant experience than it sounds.<BR/><BR/>I thought the melon was a 'furute'? <BR/>Looking into the furute - Star gazing? <BR/>The knee bone’s connected to the thigh bone.<BR/><BR/>Sorry, but I am not quite sure what I am supposed to see in the shower. It’s not Vivien Leigh, that’s for sure – nor even her daughter Janet.<BR/><BR/>Hope you got some Purple Sprouting from Lidl - I had mine yesterday evening with carrots, cauli, mash and the tasty (but not worth the bother) pig’s cheek forcemeat balls and excellent cider gravy.<BR/><BR/>A computer that shuts itself down sounds a good idea to me. But not if it does it after as little as 5 minutes, say. <BR/> <BR/>So far, I have found it better generally to work in Picasa 2 and move to Picasa 3 for ‘titling’ and ‘smudging’ (or whatever it’s called).<BR/><BR/>What Queen’s Visit?<BR/>The Google page logo is good though.<BR/>I have now read the link and understand the reference. <BR/>The Duke’s comment reminds me of my dad’s when he first saw me in jeans, “Been working then?”<BR/><BR/>I am surprised at a person of your age getting confused between ‘square inches’ and ‘inches square’. <BR/>I wonder if it is explained in schools today or whether ‘inches square’ (‘mm square’) has disappeared entirely. It was never a great deal of use anyway.<BR/> <BR/>Boring explanation: You mention Helen but do not actually say that it is her in the picture. I did not realise that the two sentences are connected.<BR/><BR/>From your ‘last’ sentence it appears that it must be Jill who is the ‘camera angel’. <BR/>I think I may have meant Helen rather than Maureen anyway, not having met either of them! Are they both photographers?<BR/><BR/>anonymousrob: <BR/>I think I would have gained an NVQ too had I been working under test conditions when I ‘plumbed out in plastic’ a Norfolk cottage. That was my swan song too.<BR/>And yes, there are these otherwise apparently reasonable, even impressive, people who have the unfortunate ‘lager drinking’ gene. That said, in Chatham NAAFI Club, 1957, an oppo and I were wont to drink pints of lager & lime with Drambuie chasers. <BR/><BR/>Having cleared up with RG about ‘Helen in the picture’, is the Djanogoly exhibition by Colin Gibson or were you told of it by Colin Gibson? <BR/>That query is purely of academic interest.<BR/>But it must be a different Colin Gibson anyway. <BR/>The one I knew (now sadly deceased) ‘only’ had an MBE. He was Clerk to Ollerton Council for many years; a Geordie who did a lot of useful work – including getting Ollerton Town FC up and running again and on to the national promotion ladder – and he was witty and pleasant company.<BR/><BR/>I don’t know about ‘pepperoni’ but I have always understood ‘peperami’ to be a strongly flavoured, dark red, hard Italian sausage principally used to decorate pizza. <BR/>After trying it numerous times. I have finally decided I don’t like it (or any other salami, or chorizo). Jessica loves it.<BR/>Am I not correct that most foreign ‘bacon’ is fatty, as ours used to be before they changed pigs. <BR/><BR/>If there is anything worse than work it is boring work. <BR/>Good luck in getting out of it, even though this may not be the best time for job-seeking.<BR/> <BR/>I’ll bet you are right about ‘Higher Hill’.<BR/>But Mam Tor isn’t in the south-west, is it?<BR/><BR/>How can someone as ‘over the moon’ as RG not be a football fan? <BR/>Yes, England have given ‘curate’s egg’ performances to gain impressive results while managing to make the opposition look good.<BR/>And mid-table mediocrity may soon look good for the Stags. When the points are deducted they will be nearer relegation than promotion and recent results have not been exactly encouraging.<BR/><BR/>Enjoyed your comment on the moon as a melon.<BR/>An old friend of mine used to say “Apple New Year and Many Orange ‘Em.” But he WAS a poly lecturer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com