Saturday, September 15, 2018

Post 313. PROUD PARENTS.

AND GRADUATE.
Jess Daisy White. 
Daryl, Jess and Roz left here for Hatfield on the ten in the morning ferry and got there in time for lunch.
The big day was a happy but very long one.
Graduation ceremony did not start until five in the afternoon and in excess of a couple of hundred awards were then conferred. By the time the following get-togethers and farewells were done it was a long, late, drive back to the Island.
They managed to board the midnight ferry.
Roz was shattered for a few days - she had not really been fit to travel at all - but has since made a good recovery.
More chemotherapy next week: she appreciates the necessity but is not looking forward to it.
HOME.
Let's all be affronted.
They are at it again. If it's not unwell wishers niggling  about the oft inane utterances of expensively educated politicians (and I have some sympathy), it's the more readily offended of the fiddler on the roof clan (an otherwise lovely people without whom there would be no show business) demanding apology for perceived slights to their homeland/race/religion. 
Tell you what. Let's all be affronted.
Let's be internationally affronted enough to bring about the replacement of anyone in power who proves to be so far up themself that they become a danger to the entire world.
Wouldn't that be wonderful?
TELEVISION.
Stan Lee's Lucky Man starring James Nesbitt finished on Sky1. It was comic book stuff and nobody ended up having much luck.
Bodyguard on BBC1 continues apace.
 I don't have a Twitter account so knew nothing of the 'spoilers' story that followed the explosive ending to episode 4. Suffice it to say I am too old a viewer to believe Jed Mercurio has killed off Keeley Hawes (above), one of the two stars, when only two thirds of the way through the series.
I feel sure MI5 headed by Stuart Bowman, who has seamlessly slipped in from Versailles (complete with his two stock expressions - disapproval and pursed lip disapproval), has to be involved.
Otherwise I am convinced of nothing except that had any of the Special Branch officers I knew acted in the way DS David Budd (Richard Madden) does, he would have been quietly removed by his colleagues and put to pasture in a bungalow on Hayling Island.
A Discovery of Witches which has just started in the UK on Sky1, stars Teresa Palmer as Diana Bishop, an academic and reluctant witch.
Matthew Goode plays her vampire professor sidekick and the city of Oxford is as charming as ever. It all looks pretty good.
Until next time, hey presto!

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