0014 Daily Notes a grim dark and raining Monday October 14th after a good 8.9 hours SP use, average 8.3 rising around 7.30 and playing games Patience to 1700 a run of 136 with the most 1350, and chess to game 23 of level four run with Mah-Jong 12.5million. I have completed 0013, uploaded and produced and will now exercise before tackling a host of important jobs having breakfasted on cereal and a coffee and set the washing machine going for the first household task of the day. Have second thoughts and will do the car insurance and breakdown insurance after checking the bank balance re a cash payment before the exercise.
11.15 Sorted the in tray and as I had hoped the Insurance is an automatic renewal from the 17th via standing order so when less job and now for the exercise.
11,55 accomplished the weigh in and age fit at 57 after two distinct test one scored 24/25 where 1 have achieved get 25 and he other balance achieve 3/5 where have got 4/5. !5 mins exercise which include tummy muscle tone where I do 100/100 and have moved to twice the length of the exercise tomorrow on this afternoon. Will start the write up first part of Montalbano Wings of Sphinx and do Downton Abbey over lunch which will be a pot noodle only with fish and veg tonight going to shops afternoon and possible cashing £7 TV survey vouchers from M and S and getting more print cartridges.
12.30 attempted to keep going with just a bowl of filled with snack pot noodles but not sure that was successful as did not feel very energetic and decided to watch the film Django Unchained which did get considerable attention last awards season because of the way the subject matter was treated..
17.00 Returned home after the film and shopping with even less energy. First port of call in a depressing quiet town shopping centre with few people about was to my cartridge store for four new black inks so made up with colours for a total of £18. They have introduced packs of five but the problem this includes the black for photos which I have a long tailback back supply. My chair has fallen to pieces and is in fact parts of two chairs kept together. So I decided the time had come to purchase a new one at a few pence under £ 50 with one ready made up to examine. I decided to purchase and although it was a struggle I managed to get to the car.
I then returned to the town centre to MS to use my £7 of vouchers from undertaking the daily TV and Radio report and purchased 4 packs of two fishcakes and other bakes for £5 and a three for £6 made up of 2 spicy chicken wings enjoyed when at Worthing and which are smaller than the ones from Asda and an olive mixture but the one with Feta cheese and then 3 pack of small meals including a sausage and mash. Then taking the car to Asda where I lost the parking return £1 ticket I purchased milk, salads, more noodle snack pots at 50p bean salad and broad beans tins, a large jar of Olives with pimento, two packs of corn on cob, to more packs of nuts in shell which should now see me through until Christmas, three reams of paper and a pack of white face flannels as the coloured ones continued to run. There was no liquorice or figs so I will see what I can do calling in at the Bolden branch when I go tomorrow to see the film about Wikileaks. I needed to eat some of the olives which I have divided into three portions and later had a corn on cob, a small battered fish with the remainder of the mixed veg from yesterday and in reverse order a cuppa soup plus half a dozen of the walnuts.
17.30 I caught up with the X Factor recording where the big star attraction and by big I mean big was Cher performing her latest single from her latest album. Rather like Sharon Osborn with face lifts and body tucks both women look amazing for their ages with Cher the great a narrow waist and amazing legs. Sharon had two of her three in the sing off, I presume because she has the outstanding artist of the top 12, Sam Bailey prison officer. I was surprised however that a couple of the boys and one of the girls was not in the other sing off person in the contest. I missed who has left Strictly squad..
Downton Abbey has taken a brave new dimension with a rape, by a visiting Valet on the ladies maid of mistress of the house now shared with her eldest widowed daughter where the actor playing the husband wanted out so was killed in a car crash during the Christmas special. She is already being courted by a suitable beau who expresses love one moment but goes off to see through sort of engagement he had perform when she shows interest but is not prepared to move as quickly. She was rightly concerned at the expression of love given that although they have known each other since childhoods she had no contact during the years of the series to date!
The other daughter is having an affair with a married man ( editor of the periodical paper for which she writes where his wife in a psychiatric establishment). He has worked out he can get a divorce by becoming a German citizen.... Inter World War years should be interesting and goes off while she spend the last night with him and I suspect she will be the one who is pregnant and not the young cousin staying with them who finds her beau at an outing to a club drunk and is rescued by the Band leader ... Of dear me he is black too which suggests an idea from the BCC two series of a year ago which is going to be explored further. Not pregnant because the troublesome ambitious maid allowed back to the fold because on staffing shortages sets he cap at the other family bereaved, the former Irish chauffer now estate manager who married the third daughter who died with her first pregnancy. She goes to his bed when he is drunk and demands a marriage but housekeeper sorts her out finding that she has there Marie Stops manual on hw to avoid pregnancy.
22.00 I was surprised by Django Unchained which is Quentin Tarantino film in the style of Sergio Leone Spaghetti Westerns complete with loud power ballad overlay although it is set in the barbarism of plantation slave labour in Texas and Mississippi. Christopher Waltz play a former Dentist who makes his life as a shoot first dead or alive Bounty Hunter who intercepts (Jamie Foxx as Django) when he is being sold from an estate with three brother overseers who are on the blacklist of Dr King Shultz of German background) of wanted villains using new names and who has does not know what they look like.. He searches for Django top enable identification and tries to persuade the traders sell him voluntarily at a fair price to aid in his search. They decline and in the shoot out he kills one, wounds the other which he leaves for the other slaves to kill and bury deep before telling them to follow the North Star heading in its direction.
Django gets a horse and a winter coat and rides as an assistant with the promise of money and freedom. They ride into a western type town where a black man on horseback is a novelty and where the man is refused at the bar so they help themselves and then kill one of he lawmen who is in fact a fugitive with the price on his head much to the amazement of the other lawman and townsfolk.
For Django the search for the three brother is personal because of the way they treated him and his German family origin speaking black slave wife who has been sold separately. They trick their way on the estate and it is Django whose gun work has been polished up who shoots two close to hand and uses a riffle to get the third running away. . The estate owner creates what appears to be the first Klu Klux Klan local get together with white covered heads cut from bags out of which they cannot properly see. The now joint Bounty Hunting team have anticipated the raid and blow a good proportion of the terrorist up with dynamite attached to their wagon as well as riffle picking out the plantation owner as the rest run off. He is known as Big daddy echoing the Burl Ives Role.
It is only in the second part of the film that Dr Shultz works out a plan of how they can rescue his newly traded wife by presenting themselves as interested in acquiring the best black fighter ( to death gladiator style) owned by Leonardo Di Caprio a Francophile who cannot speak French who has the biggest slave plantation in the state supported by a large number of white trash brutal scum overseers. Di Caprio is fascinated by the Django arrogance as a black slave trader and expert advisor on black fighters.
He alienates the white trash who promise retribution but their plan nearly works and the plan nearly works is shot after he kills Di Caprio who insisted on a hand shake on the deal. which would set both husband and wife officially free and instead shoots Leonardo with the consequence of about fifty guns do battle. The wife is used to force Django to surrender and he is sent off to stone break for a mining company and his wife is locked up for use by the men after the family funeral. The family includes the bosses widowed sister, his personal security man and a family black who has been with the estate for 76 years
Django tricks his way out of the transport cage to the mine with the promise of bounty money, then kills the men involved and frees the others being transported with him. He then returns and kills everyone in sight with the finale blowing up the mansion house to smithereens to the delight of his wife.
The film is controversial on two counts. At one level it is Spaghetti western Hollywood style which about 100 blood killings with lots of flesh splattering, However it is created in the style which one commentator describes as pulp fiction the constant use of the n word has offended contemporary sensibility of both those with enslaved ancestors as well as the liberal. This smacks of wanting to rewrite history although pulp fiction tongue in cheek style does offend the righteousness but this should be no more regarded as a blood thirsty caper. Samuel L Jackson plays the black guardian of the slave owning values which he subsequently argues is what some black republicans and no doubt others still hold.
Before going to bed I must also record that although I misplaced the central bar and then could not find the instructions, screw bolts etc while making up the chair it proved the easiest today designed for one person to do on their own and appears much stronger than the previous two others.
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