While the week for me had started well it has brought tragedy, disruption and great expense for others as on Sunday night through to Monday midday a get hurricane and rain storm travelled from the South West across southern England and into Europe. Five deaths in total were recorded by Monday evening. A seventeen year old girl was killed while sleeping in static mobile type home near Hever castle as a huge tree crashed on to her bedroom, In London a man in his fifties was also killed as a treed crashed into his car while in a separate gas explosion also cased by a falling tree two people were killed. As the storm commenced a fourteen year old boy who had gone to observe the growing angry seas was a lifeboat and other others he had not been found and is presumed dead.
Hundreds if not thousands of tree have been uprooted with damage to hosing from winds which reach 99 miles an hour on an exposed portion of the Isle of Wight. Given several days advance warning the airports, train companies British rail and Highways authority together with Local authorities and those concerned with flooding and its defence were all on alert together with the energy and communication companies all having as many staff on duty as could be mustered and with. Train and coach companies cancelled overnight travel through until the end of the usual rush hour to avoid passengers being kept en route for hours on end while lines and roads were cleared of debris and emergency services had priority.
So while loss of life and injury was kept to the minimum there were still some who complained about their travel plans being affected. Although to what extent they were out up to this by the media is open to question.
My first activity of the week was to acquire a new main mobile phone transferring the number from the one that appears to have been partially ruin over in the Sage Baltic Square car park. It is an impressive fast internet if required phone with a 75 page handbook which I have yet to start let alone understand although hopefully I will get going later to day 29th October 2013.( decided to lave until Wednesday
I have yet to plan the rest of the day apart from exercise and food while tomorrow on TV there is Newcastle playing Man City in the League cup at St James Park. On Thursday I go our for an evening meal before attending a swing and trad jazz concert at the Custom’s House which is the start of the North Tyneside Jazz Trad and Swing weekend which I have been tempted to attend in the past. I must see if I can get a ticket for a concert at the Sage on Sunday week although I already have three evening activities, the annual Sleep Apnoea Review and a car annual service although I will rearrange the latter as soon as I get the confirmation letter about the appointment.
The Newsroom came to a great end Last night and also the first episode of season four of Atlantic city got off to its usual blood and raunchy sex start but I wish could remember more clearly about the third season issues were resolved although various aspects did come back to me as the episode progressed and I was engaged with film Gangster squad,
However before this I want to report on my visit to the Leisure centre which opened its door on the sea front yesterday morning. The approach from the park and Ocean road is now clear but there is still work continuing on the outside area sea front side. From this park side it is possible to view the lane swimming 25 meter area with adult sessions each morning from 9.30 to 10.30 although the pool is also available from 7.30 but with young person and children also included. There is also an adults only session each evening 7 to 8 with a ladies only session following. With a get Active card for only £5.40 a swim session only coast 1.50 but excludes the sauna and steam room. The leisure is a large and splendid area with a learning pool and a feature pool with fountain like water features and wave motions. I did not get to see the fitness areas, dance studios and observation lounge, steam and sauna area but via the second entrance I did view the coffee lounge and cafe as well as couple of the meeting rooms available for hire. There a walkway from the park on to the roof for views over the coast and where according to the regional briefing there will be an outside cafe, perhaps for the spring and summer season. People were queuing at the door for the swimming because the facilities were full although this may have applied only to children’s leisure. area or because the locker changing facilities were full. I was able to enter via the second door Gym and cafe area. I had through of waiting until the half term holidays are over but I may well go down and sign up for a 9,30 session
I walked into town with the low bright sun made it difficult to see but once the sun went in having shown brightly blue sky since the dawn it was cold because of the wind, stronger than yesterday.. I purchased Christmas cards and then decided on a coffee at the Morrison’s cafe on the return, fancying an Eccles cake until noting the price of 95 so I held off and then purchased three for £1.07 from the store together with a packet of liquorice and some fruit drop for the night the later at 39 pence. I returned home enjoying one of the Eccles cakes and in a sweat from the hour plus brisk walk which added to the half an hour exercise earlier has got to day of a good start.
Earlier I noted that Andy Fairweather Low is performing at the Customs tomorrow evening and not remembering the kind of music I am listening to a host of short tracks on the site rhythm and blues stuff but not sufficiently attractive or of interest for me to go to the theatre two evenings running. I have confused him with Andy Fairweather of Trad jazz me thinks.
The Newsroom came to an untimely end on Monday although I appreciate the goings on in the 24 hours newsroom does not have the appeal as West Wing, the study of those behind Presidential government in White House and where I have promised myself to experience and review the 140 episode seven season series. I wrote this after the happy ending finale to season two only to then learn that HBO which gives us Atlantic City which commenced on Sunday first season Four and Games of Thrones with the fourth season commencing next year and who gave Treme which promised much on the post Katrina New Orleans and delivered good jazz and engaging storylines but sill feels a city travel booster resurrection.
The Newsroom became obsessed with one storyline previously covered in which the majority of the team came to support a story alleging that the USA military had used a chemical weapon in order to extract some of their won. The story was a fabrication coming together over a period of 11 months when supported by a high level top source who had an agenda to bring down the Editor in chief, the top producer the front of screen man and the editorial team but the cuckoo in the nest was an ambitious production team editor investigator who manufactured a key interview seizing the opportunity when a key witness insisted on being seen alone and thus providing the opportunity to doctor the tape in such a way for the man to appear convincing and confirming the story when in reality he did qualifying to the point of saying the story could be true.
The double episode finale which was thought to be end of the series clearly was prepared with one ending but following what appears not have been a last minute decision to commission a third series was change into a very happy feel good ending which it what some punters want, but loses all the programmes edge, much like the president gaining his second term in West Wing,
The two episodes live through the election night of President Obama v Romney as the principals find that their resignations are not accepted. They exert pressure on the son of the multi business CEO(Jane Fonda) to change the mind of his mother and who is of the opinion they should have been fired although when she leaves the decision to him he goes out ostensibly to clear his mind but also to talk with his fiancée.
The key relationship of the two series has been between Jeff Daniels as William ‘Will’ Duncan Cavy the long standing much respected front Anchor man fro the main evening show and in this instance on screen newsreader discussion chair and provocateur whose world has been turned upside down when the company appoint Emily Mortimer as Mackensie Morgan McHale known as Mac as the Executive producer.
The two had planned to marry when she decided to tell him that while they were together she had slept with her previous partner, regretted and would never do so again but thought he needed to know so it would not remain something between them and potentially to cause a rift later. He not only broke off the relationship but had refused to have any contact with her. It has been evident throughout both seasons that the two are not only still passionate about each other but right and although she makes overtures this only serves to make him more hostile and defensive. At one point she forces him to agree to dismissing her which is within his power on the assumption the resignation will not be accepted.
She even prepares for her departure by giving control for the night to the second in command who in fact voiced great doubts about her story but went along in good corporate team support. However as the evening progresses and reaches its climax as the team are first to call the Obama re-election the two “leads” resolve their issues and he proposes having kept the quarter of a million dollars engagement ring and she accepts with the engagement announced as the show closes. There is a mini story concerning Mac who becomes uptight someone points out that she was president of the famous Oxford Union but where in fact those who went to Cambridge where she the Union President tend to suggest its is superior, in this instance quoting some famous people who went to Cambridge and while in fact the economics and the science tends to be more significant at Cambridge it is Oxford that produces the Prime Minister, cabinet Ministers and all the top echelons of the establishment society
There is a second relationship which suddenly blossoms between the Economist academic Sloan Sabbith who recent published a book on German economics and which she donates to a charity auction and the new second in Command Don Keefer played by John Gallagher. He had left to Join the networks Right now with frontman Elliot Hersch played by David Harbour but the two returned following the Chemical weapon debacle with Elliot groomed by Will McAvoy to take over from him and Jeff from Mac.
A social awkward but attractive young woman. Sloan played by Olivia Munn gets Dev Patel, a Blog writer who covered the London Underground bombings with a hand held camera called Neal Necclamani Sampat to find who won the auction and ensure that he was given a proper signed book. Later in the programme she discovers that, or believes she had discovered that Jim had not only won the auction but made all the competitive bids on line bid to ensure she raised got a good sum for the prize. She gives Don a passionate kiss for his thoughtfulness and a proper signed copy and hopefully she was right about the what he did.
The other relationship which appear to boil from a simmer ever since blonde bombshell Margaret Maggie Jordan played by Alison Pill arrived as a green Intern who featured throughout an episode in which she went to Africa and returned a psychological mess after a young boy she befriended was shot dead while she narrowly escaped. She had cut her hair and dyed into red because the boy had never seen someone with blond hair had allowed him to touch her hair. She had worked closely with John Gallagher as Jim Harper a senior producer who arrives with Mac and developed an immediate attract to Maggie. He had been going out with her flat mate, and was pushed by her into saying her loves her after sleeping together when he does not. She arrives as a waitress at the Election view party held at the Newsroom by the owner CEO. First Jim appears to be affect by her arrival although he has a girl friend from covering the campaign trail of the Republican contender and who he gives a one to one interview which gets him called back to the centre but it is when he realises that Maggie has not had her hair cut and restyles but did the work herself as a punishment that one feels their relation is designed to ignite again.
These relationships are all side issues to the main event that to resign or not to resign or be sacked as becomes he likely outcome of the owner’s son or perhaps he is no mire than her deputy. Anyway the Editor in chief the always looking quizzical Charles Skinner (Sam Waterman decides after a successful night during which they are first to call the election for Obama decides he is not going to resign, nor is Will or Mac and they want the boss to continue to fight the law suit brought by the man fired after he doctored the interview. The son also agrees so alls well that ends well. Throughout the recent episodes there has also been a major performance by the actress who plays the head corporate lawyer and who conducts an investigation of the part each member of the Editorial and production team played in reaching the decision to broadcast the fake story,
I will leave the new season of Atlantic City and the film Gangster Squad until after catching up on Plebgate
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