We Had A Quiet Day,

 Alex called round first thing in the morning,

for a tea and a chat, I then decided that a water change in the aquariums was due so that took up some time,

then feet up for an oldie,  First Men in the Moon, made in 1964 it was off course a bit dated, but it just goes to show who got there first! based on the HG Wells story, the world is delighted when a space craft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, they think for the first time, but the delight turns to shock when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon!

in the evening after Mark called round we watched the 3 hour mini series On the Beach, (2000) we had already watched the original On The Beach (1959), some time ago, both based on the book by Nevil Shute, the original sticks closer to the book, but the mini series is well worth watching neither the less, but I have to say I preferred the first, Anthony Perkins playing Lt. Peter Holmes in the original was never going to be an easy act to follow,

just one thing puzzles me, in both films the nuclear submarines make their own water and air, so how come the submariners with out leaving the ship came down with radiation sickness? just a thought,

we then watched the second series of Garrow's Law, when I say the second series we watched all of both DVDs, it was so good, so much so in fact I have just ordered series 3, for both of us it was so compelling, especially the episode that dealt with the Greenwich Seaman's Hospital and its board of governors and their mismanagement of it, once when I was an apprentice in Lewisham in the mid 1960s being a patient there myself, in Garrows time the hospital was in fact a hulk moored in the River Thames, the Grampus, an old navy warship, moored near Greenwich, but in 1830 the Royal Navy presented the ex-warship HMS Dreadnought to the society that ran the hospital, from that point onwards it would always be known by the name the Dreadnought Seaman's Hospital (for Sailors), by now it was well into the morning, so for us off to bed.