0004 Daily notes 2013 October 4

0004 4^th October 2013 It is 7 am and I have been awake since 5 reading Montalbano the Wings of the Sphinx and then an hour playing electronic games, Mah-Jong to 5 million and Patience 1530 while after a chess disaster last night I am back to zero and yet willing to commence again the challenge of 101 consecutive wins at level 4. I will get breakfast and the catch the recorded TV.

8.30. Watched Question Time confirming that Daily Mail and co have shot themselves in the goolies however much they attempt to distance themselves from the action of the to suspended journalists. Good for them they have damaged their brand beyond repair.21.30 I am tired so i do to bed and read but I do not think for long.

It rained this morning but there was a very warm mist bordering on sea fog on the Tyne by early afternoon and then it clouded dark as the evening approach but I did not notice if it rained once more.

I have watched two films and both merit more detailed comment. Best Man Down surprised because of the way it unravelled the character of a Best man who died on the wedding night. It is film I commend. I avoided the latest production of Anna Karenina because of the way the film had been produced but again it proved worth staying with and was overall effective in covering the familiar territory in re revolutionary Russia and social mores of the upper classes. I must return to the cinema as films of substance worth have started to be released with the latest Woody Allan for the awards season and Christmas.

I did some housework ad will finish off the big clean and tidy tomorrow. The purchase of an indoor aerial suitable for free view digital has not proved a success although I need to take more time. I over did food with a series of small meals, cereal bowl morning, a smoked salmon salad for lunch with tomato soup, a pasta bake in the evening with a pot noodle starter. I have not exercised enough appropriately.

I have been listening to a choral concern from St Georges Chapel Windsor with the four choirs of the Royal Chapels combined and with individual performance drawing an hour of music from the original three hour Coronation music with some forty items. It was very powerful and overwhelming stuff and important in terms of understanding the position of the Queen and given the circumstance sin which she became the Monarch.

The Daily Mail remains unrepentant not surprising given that it is said that the Lord Northcliffe met Gobbles and spoke favourably of the Nazi What will the Mail on Sunday do ?21.50