We Stayed In Today,

and did absolutely nothing,

having said that Diana did cut my hair, but after posting the blog it was feet up to watch television, just generally pottering about the house and taking things easy, after our evening meal we watched some more of Waking the Dead the last few from series 3, we then made a start on series 4, the good news for me is that a body was found with some car keys on it,

the emblem was a tortoise, I knew in a flash what the make of car it was, many years ago a friend of mine, Paul Banhan owned one and took me for a drive in it, one of only 99 cars made, (a 100th was finally made from bits),

it was a Gordon-Keeble, using a 5.4 (it may have been a 5.3) litre small block Chevrolet V8 the car was designed by Jim Keeble and John Gordon, but sluggish sales led to the close of the factory, but it was no slow coach in 1966 it recorded 0-60 in 6.00 seconds and a top speed of 143 mph, it was favourably compared with the Ferrari 330 GT, Jaguar Mk10, Mercedes 300 SE, and Iso Rivolta, with which it shared virtually identical specifications, including the design work of a 21 year old Giugiaro, still in the employ of Bertone, that all brought back a few memories,

then in another blast from the past Battleship Potemkin was being played a a cinema where one of the characters committed suicide, or was more sinisterly murdered in the same episode, one of my great films of the past the film tells the story of the Russian navy's mutiny, in it there is a scene of a baby carriage bouncing down the steps of Odeasa, this has been paraded in so many later films, I have mentioned the film before on the blog here, this is what I wrote, 'Battleship Potemkin, the film made by one of my favourite directors Sergei M. Eisenstein, the film was so powerful at the time the film was rejected for a UK cinema certificate in 1926 by the BBFC following fears of working class insurrection, and remained banned until January 1954 when it was finally released with an X certificate, it is also famous for the scene where a mother is shot, she lets go of her pram and it with baby inside bounces down the steps of Odessa, parodied in many other films, Simpson's and one of the Naked Gun series spring to mind, great film and yes I have it and 3 or 4 others from this great director,' after all of that it was late, so we were off to bed.