After Our Last Few Evenings Out,

we decided on a quiet day today,

even though it was Diana's birthday she decided that we should have a night in, but during the day Jay and Precil called by for a cuppa and a chat, later Mark called in, also Steve from the UK called on the phone to wish Diana a happy birthday,

after our evening meal, a crab salad, it was down to the serious stuff, Monopoly, taking advantage of collecting two sets of streets early in the game I won, which was a bit unfair on Diana as it was her birthday after all, but the good news is that we will be out tomorrow for a nice meal at the restaurant of her choice,

during the day and evening we watched Pan's Labyrinth, this is what I wrote the first time we watched it, 'I bought it on Blu-Ray a long time ago, just never got around to watching it, I guessed it was a kids sort of thing, boy was I wrong! OK it had mythical creatures with two or three fairies helping the young heroine along, but gory, cruel and torture thrown into the mix, it takes place during the Spanish uprising at the end of the Second World war, at an outpost, it is held by troops fighting the insurgents, it is enough to say that Mercy's face had fled, a well crafted and memorable movie, an adults fairy tale, also if you are tempted to buy it (and I am glad I did), it is in Spanish but with English subtitles,' it has lost none of it's impact the second time around,

an Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles was next , a vampire named Lestat takes a liking to Louis who has just lost his wife and child and offers him the chance to become a creature of the night: a vampire, who then joins the vampire underworld,

then we just had to watch a few more of MI5, we watched three of them, Episode #3.10, after the police raid a house and find evidence that terrorists may be planning an attack in London with Sarin gas, two of the team are captured, one will not make it back alive, Episode #4.1, as the team buries their dead colleague, a bomb goes off in a nearby market, the group, Shining Dawn, demands the release of their leader Michael Monroe or they will detonate another bomb in 10 hours, the race is on to find it, lastly Episode #4.2, With Zafar Younis being held by the terrorists, Adam Carter had to act quickly to free him but he may have over-stepped when he tries to extract information from one of them, shades of Accidental Death Of An Anarchist which I watched at Wyndham's Theatre, many years ago performed by the Belt and Braces Theatre Company, who then went on to make a television program of the production, then for us it was off to bed.