Apparently Murray could meet Nadal as early as the 4th round (as he is no. 10 seed)...not that Rafa is the threat he once was.
What a top fella Chilco is. He even put up with my American colleague, as well as me waffling on all evening.
Thought I'd find you on here. Great evening FLT, glad we didn't bore your colleague to death talking of incomprehensible things like football and cider!
Strange folks them yanks, they call apple juice cider, imangine ordering a pint of cider and getting apple juice. For cider they call it strong cider. Maybe you have to ask for strong beer as when you ask for beer it tastes like water
Been putting off watching Episode 6 of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell because I wanted to be able to give it my best attention. It just so happened that tonight was ideal, and what an episode it was. This series gets better and better. If someone had described it to me beforehand I would have probably tried to politely feign interest and then my glazing eyes would have betrayed me halfway through the telling. But it is magical. I'm so so glad I stuck with it. This is a story that you want to run and run, but very sadly, the last episode is this Sunday. I understand a sequel book is being written by the author Susanna Clarke. As the original book is, by all accounts, supposed to be only very slightly better than the dramatisation [the standard is that high] she'll have to go some the keep it up. It took her 10 years to write the original.
Well I loved Poldark, but I think you could count the posters on here who agreed with me on one hand. Been watching a series called Black Sails quite recently, and that's half decent. It's a prequel to R L Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, and deals with the historical figure of Captain Flint. It involves a young John Silver [with two legs at the time as it happens] and his secret page of information out of a deceased captain's log book that he carries. Not great, in my opinion, but not bad at all. I have to be in the right mood for it. PS. If you found Ep1 of JS&MrN hard going, keep at it. It gets easier until the story picks you up and whisks you away.
Had to entertain an American colleague when I lived in West Sussex. He thought he'd died and gone to heaven as we took him to an old pub where Mein Host called us by name, we had 'our usual' and he hit his head on an oak beam
Outlander. It's very well done. About a nurse at the end of WWII who goes to the Highlands with her husband for a belated honeymoon and accidentally steps through a time portal in a stone circle and goes back 200 years to just before the Jacobite rebellion.
I'm very wary of series that may go on and on. Rather have a fixed number of episodes and know it won't be flogged to death until it is crap. I like a resolution. Means I have missed some good series on Atlantic.
Where are you?!! I would be envious had I not booked my hols today; Philippines - Vietnam - Laos. I also get a cheeky 24 hour stop-over in Istanbul during my flight back to UK. Bonus!!
I know what you're talking about. We had an old pub in Kent like that called The Queens Arms. It was 50 yards from my house in the middle of the tiniest hamlet you were likely to come across. The only thing missing was the low beam, though the doorway was a wee bit low. Friends would come to visit and were immediately made to feel at home. Great pub.
