I awake this morning to find confirmation that the severe weather warning was justified, especially in the south east where buses, trains and travel become severely disrupted and car travel and foot travel dangerous, after one fall of 6 to 11 inches of snow in the South East and over mountains with elsewhere a couple of inches although there were places without any reported, inland as well as on the coast
There were three levels of reaction. There are magnificent pictures of the countryside covered in snow something which I experienced Christmas New year/Easter period on two visits to Scotland, once with my birth and care mothers, and mother in law when two Lodges were hired, near Holy Loch and Dunoon, and the other was near Dumfries in Galloway when it was difficult getting in and out of the entrances to the Lodges. There are also pictures later of children enjoying the snow tobogganing, many not having had the experience before. It never snows in the Scilly Islands but did not last night to the amazement of young adults as well as the children. Many schools are closed for tomorrow because of the difficulty of teachers getting into the schools.
The main news was that people had heeded the call not to travel in London where the buses were not running and an estimated six million were estimated to have stayed at home. There are the usual complaints why the country cannot cope with severe snow falls when they occur. The answer is simple, finance. In countries where heavy snow is an annual event, and lasts a month or more, then the expenditure in heavy equipment and materials to keep transport moving becomes justified although it results in less public expenditure in other areas. Here where even one fall a year is not usual over areas outside the mountains, such expenditure is not justified. This level of snow fall last occurred twenty years ago.
The consequence of the severe fall and people attempting to use unsafe roads and pavements or going out to play in unusual conditions has been an increase in road accidents and personal injuries in a situation where medical and nursing staff also had difficulties in getting to work. Some said they were sleeping overnight at hospitals in order to ensure availability the following morning as emergency plans were put into effect.
I had gone to bed the previous evening at 10pm after managing to watch Lost having slept through part of Lark Rise to Candleford between eight and nine, and then managing to have bouts of sleep until just before six am. The number of risings was less than the previous night.
I am listening to Alison Moyet, a singer who achieved momentary fame several decades ago in the but whose work has continued to impress me and be enjoyed. The album is The Turn, and the song One more time.
Any time at all (I will change my life for you - the pleasure and the pain), The man in the wings, Can’t say it like I mean it, It’s not the thing Henry, Fire, The sharper corner, World with end, Home, Smaller, and a Guy Like you. The words require attention so my progress on other things was slow.
There is writing to be worked on and some correspondence, and work converting slide photos of people into scans and photos. I make good progress and later in the day complete the wood box holding at least 175 and my work on people is completed and the scans can be integrated with those of photographs and made into DVD’s. I will commence this task midweek.
I arranged an early lunch of two salmon fishcakes and baked beans and grapes before setting off well wrapped to the Cineworld Bolden for Frost Nixon was being shown in the former VIP cinema which has retained the large seats and wide aisle as well as small side tables, Given the weather condition an audience of a dozen or more is excellent. I had two advance misgivings about the film. The first is having seen the original programmes and studied Watergate and the Nixon area in past, I wondered how an interesting film could be made.(A quick check and I have John Dean’s Book Blind Ambition, the Halderman book and that by Bernstein and Woodward on the Last Days of Nixon. The second reservation concerns the actor playing Frost who played Tony Blair in The Queen, Michael Sheen, who is good but less than I feel he ought to be.
In the event I was wrong on both counts because the film is primarily about the struggle to get the funds, advertising and network time, the preparations of Nixon and Frost and their respective teams. It was in doubt until the last session on Watergate that Frost would obtain any kind of confession and it was only the last minute realization he was going to fail that resulted in Frost doing the kind of homework required with the help of his researcher that he was able top penetrate the Nixon defence and bring about the kind of admission and apology which became legend. Until that moment Nixon had remained defiant hoping the programme would lead to his rehabilitation and a return to international politics. The outstanding performance of the film is that by Frank Lagella as Nixon, a tragic figures where you do not forget he was President, with Frost confirming the impression that at heart he remained a playboy and a socialite who took to television and was made by the interview gaining gravitas in middle to old age.
Afterwards at Azda for some fish and salad I checked the availability of the plastic pockets and there were two new full boxes and more. I bought only five unsure of the price because of one sign at £1.18 although one sign said £1.48 and the boxes had a single £1 sign. The assistant put through the first pack which had been separate and then multiplied those taken from a box so I am unsure but will return to morrow when I go to see Che and buy second box. This quality costs over £2 at Staples. I need to restock card but the prices is too high and there is no indication of a sale which will bring the price to £4 or less so I may start to use the paper which bought in quantity several years ago and have no use for and add the card later if my financial position changes.
I caught up on Lark Rise to Candleford which this week centred on loving relationships and community sprit in a delightful way and added balance to my day.
24, as expected, progressed in several ways. The President’s husband survived but remains paralysed after managing to strangle the CIS security man who murdered his son. The CIA agent was buried and left but immediately rescued by the USA saving team of two although I have doubts about the man in charge. Jack and Tony kill the man hiring them and they in turn become the subject of a get rid order as they are about to hand over the Opposition Leader and his wife who has been brought into the knowledge loop of what is going on and which sides people are officially on at this point in time. Meanwhile the President is under increasing pressure to give into the demands of the tyrant rather than expend USA lives and has to experience the arranged demonstration of the power now held when two planes are made to collide in mid air above the capital, with more casualties on the ground. The next demonstration will kill over 15000.
A new series of Do you know who you are has commenced with the Impressionist Rory Bremner who discovers something of his father who dies when Rory was in his teens and with whom he has a distant relationship. He discovers that his father played an important part in one operation during World War II to take an important town in Holland close to the German border and meets someone who not only remembered his father but was present at the action. He also discovered that his father was a ladies man. Effectively abandoning his first wife and daughter to stay in Germany in the post war administration, having one known affairs in his first appointment and then marrying someone half his age.
In the second part of the programme he finds out about his great grandfather who was a surgeon general in the army serving in the Crimea and India before going to the West Indies after his wife died, leaving three young children to be brought up as a governess. He remarries and his half is age wife gives birth to four children with both sets of children recorded in the 1891 census. That both men left their daughters aged around six years, the age of one the daughters of Rory, affected him significantly. He was previously married for eight years but there is no record of children.
My recent pattern of sleep meant that there was no likelihood that I would remain awake for the Superbowl. I commenced to follow American Football in the 1980 supporting Chicago bears, and the Fridge and also the San Francisco 49ers who I watched at Wembley in an ill fated visit arranged through a North East Newspaper where the hotel was close to London Airport and we were kept waiting for a couple of hours after the game at the pick up point. On the second visit to watch a pre season game I stayed with my birth and care mothers. In fact attempts to stay at Wembley or travel by car have proved disasters. One for a Rolling Stones concert, the concert itself was cancelled and a weekend at Wembley is not an ideal location. Once the car broke down and two years ago I found myself locked out of the motel at Croydon on return after midnight from the Diana memorial concert and had to create a major racket before I was let in when the key card failed to function.
This year there was an added attraction to the Superbowl with the appearance of Bruce Springsteen. I had intended to only watch what proved to be Bruce and the East Street Band at their powerful and intense best that had the whole stadium rocking in the half time show but the game proved exciting and spectacular. First a defensive player intercepts and runs the length of the field to score in the closing seconds of the first quarter. I was supporting the underdogs, Arizona, who had never reached the final before and they came behind in the closing minute to score and take the lead, but there with less than a minute there was another spectacular score for the Steelers to take the tile.
There were three levels of reaction. There are magnificent pictures of the countryside covered in snow something which I experienced Christmas New year/Easter period on two visits to Scotland, once with my birth and care mothers, and mother in law when two Lodges were hired, near Holy Loch and Dunoon, and the other was near Dumfries in Galloway when it was difficult getting in and out of the entrances to the Lodges. There are also pictures later of children enjoying the snow tobogganing, many not having had the experience before. It never snows in the Scilly Islands but did not last night to the amazement of young adults as well as the children. Many schools are closed for tomorrow because of the difficulty of teachers getting into the schools.
The main news was that people had heeded the call not to travel in London where the buses were not running and an estimated six million were estimated to have stayed at home. There are the usual complaints why the country cannot cope with severe snow falls when they occur. The answer is simple, finance. In countries where heavy snow is an annual event, and lasts a month or more, then the expenditure in heavy equipment and materials to keep transport moving becomes justified although it results in less public expenditure in other areas. Here where even one fall a year is not usual over areas outside the mountains, such expenditure is not justified. This level of snow fall last occurred twenty years ago.
The consequence of the severe fall and people attempting to use unsafe roads and pavements or going out to play in unusual conditions has been an increase in road accidents and personal injuries in a situation where medical and nursing staff also had difficulties in getting to work. Some said they were sleeping overnight at hospitals in order to ensure availability the following morning as emergency plans were put into effect.
I had gone to bed the previous evening at 10pm after managing to watch Lost having slept through part of Lark Rise to Candleford between eight and nine, and then managing to have bouts of sleep until just before six am. The number of risings was less than the previous night.
I am listening to Alison Moyet, a singer who achieved momentary fame several decades ago in the but whose work has continued to impress me and be enjoyed. The album is The Turn, and the song One more time.
Any time at all (I will change my life for you - the pleasure and the pain), The man in the wings, Can’t say it like I mean it, It’s not the thing Henry, Fire, The sharper corner, World with end, Home, Smaller, and a Guy Like you. The words require attention so my progress on other things was slow.
There is writing to be worked on and some correspondence, and work converting slide photos of people into scans and photos. I make good progress and later in the day complete the wood box holding at least 175 and my work on people is completed and the scans can be integrated with those of photographs and made into DVD’s. I will commence this task midweek.
I arranged an early lunch of two salmon fishcakes and baked beans and grapes before setting off well wrapped to the Cineworld Bolden for Frost Nixon was being shown in the former VIP cinema which has retained the large seats and wide aisle as well as small side tables, Given the weather condition an audience of a dozen or more is excellent. I had two advance misgivings about the film. The first is having seen the original programmes and studied Watergate and the Nixon area in past, I wondered how an interesting film could be made.(A quick check and I have John Dean’s Book Blind Ambition, the Halderman book and that by Bernstein and Woodward on the Last Days of Nixon. The second reservation concerns the actor playing Frost who played Tony Blair in The Queen, Michael Sheen, who is good but less than I feel he ought to be.
In the event I was wrong on both counts because the film is primarily about the struggle to get the funds, advertising and network time, the preparations of Nixon and Frost and their respective teams. It was in doubt until the last session on Watergate that Frost would obtain any kind of confession and it was only the last minute realization he was going to fail that resulted in Frost doing the kind of homework required with the help of his researcher that he was able top penetrate the Nixon defence and bring about the kind of admission and apology which became legend. Until that moment Nixon had remained defiant hoping the programme would lead to his rehabilitation and a return to international politics. The outstanding performance of the film is that by Frank Lagella as Nixon, a tragic figures where you do not forget he was President, with Frost confirming the impression that at heart he remained a playboy and a socialite who took to television and was made by the interview gaining gravitas in middle to old age.
Afterwards at Azda for some fish and salad I checked the availability of the plastic pockets and there were two new full boxes and more. I bought only five unsure of the price because of one sign at £1.18 although one sign said £1.48 and the boxes had a single £1 sign. The assistant put through the first pack which had been separate and then multiplied those taken from a box so I am unsure but will return to morrow when I go to see Che and buy second box. This quality costs over £2 at Staples. I need to restock card but the prices is too high and there is no indication of a sale which will bring the price to £4 or less so I may start to use the paper which bought in quantity several years ago and have no use for and add the card later if my financial position changes.
I caught up on Lark Rise to Candleford which this week centred on loving relationships and community sprit in a delightful way and added balance to my day.
24, as expected, progressed in several ways. The President’s husband survived but remains paralysed after managing to strangle the CIS security man who murdered his son. The CIA agent was buried and left but immediately rescued by the USA saving team of two although I have doubts about the man in charge. Jack and Tony kill the man hiring them and they in turn become the subject of a get rid order as they are about to hand over the Opposition Leader and his wife who has been brought into the knowledge loop of what is going on and which sides people are officially on at this point in time. Meanwhile the President is under increasing pressure to give into the demands of the tyrant rather than expend USA lives and has to experience the arranged demonstration of the power now held when two planes are made to collide in mid air above the capital, with more casualties on the ground. The next demonstration will kill over 15000.
A new series of Do you know who you are has commenced with the Impressionist Rory Bremner who discovers something of his father who dies when Rory was in his teens and with whom he has a distant relationship. He discovers that his father played an important part in one operation during World War II to take an important town in Holland close to the German border and meets someone who not only remembered his father but was present at the action. He also discovered that his father was a ladies man. Effectively abandoning his first wife and daughter to stay in Germany in the post war administration, having one known affairs in his first appointment and then marrying someone half his age.
In the second part of the programme he finds out about his great grandfather who was a surgeon general in the army serving in the Crimea and India before going to the West Indies after his wife died, leaving three young children to be brought up as a governess. He remarries and his half is age wife gives birth to four children with both sets of children recorded in the 1891 census. That both men left their daughters aged around six years, the age of one the daughters of Rory, affected him significantly. He was previously married for eight years but there is no record of children.
My recent pattern of sleep meant that there was no likelihood that I would remain awake for the Superbowl. I commenced to follow American Football in the 1980 supporting Chicago bears, and the Fridge and also the San Francisco 49ers who I watched at Wembley in an ill fated visit arranged through a North East Newspaper where the hotel was close to London Airport and we were kept waiting for a couple of hours after the game at the pick up point. On the second visit to watch a pre season game I stayed with my birth and care mothers. In fact attempts to stay at Wembley or travel by car have proved disasters. One for a Rolling Stones concert, the concert itself was cancelled and a weekend at Wembley is not an ideal location. Once the car broke down and two years ago I found myself locked out of the motel at Croydon on return after midnight from the Diana memorial concert and had to create a major racket before I was let in when the key card failed to function.
This year there was an added attraction to the Superbowl with the appearance of Bruce Springsteen. I had intended to only watch what proved to be Bruce and the East Street Band at their powerful and intense best that had the whole stadium rocking in the half time show but the game proved exciting and spectacular. First a defensive player intercepts and runs the length of the field to score in the closing seconds of the first quarter. I was supporting the underdogs, Arizona, who had never reached the final before and they came behind in the closing minute to score and take the lead, but there with less than a minute there was another spectacular score for the Steelers to take the tile.
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