Straight On With The Post Today,

as we are out early to a plant and vegetable show,

first stop was to Friendship for some bits and pieces,

 then a quick stop in to the market,

 to the stall that sells fresh prawns,

 and these were the ones that were going to be hand picked,

 plus some peppers and vegetables,

 as we made our way to the front of the market we came across this cooker, it has a gas ring underneath, the owner was loading it with chicken,

 our last stop in the market, for some fresh pineapple for our dessert later in the evening,

 whilst Diana prepared the food inside I made up bar-b-qued,

 and brought out the fan, plates, wine ,etc,

 I excelled myself this time, it was the most smoky bar-b-q yet,

 whilst I had tears caused by smoke running down my cheeks the lady next door sitting with Jake had tears of laughter running down hers! the fire just would not catch, it just made huge amounts of smoke, eventually even she called it a day as her and Jake went inside,

 but finally it caught and started to look more like a bonfire,

 until the fire died down and the charcoals started to glow,

 Diana brought the food out, marinated chicken, sausages, prawns and potatoes with garlic butter in foil and garlic bread, all ready for the off,

 and the first of our evening meal starts cooking,

 prawns in foil and chicken on next,

 so now we just waited,

 until the chicken and the first pieces of garlic bread were done,

 the prawns in foil started to swell up as they heated,

 next the sausages had their turn,

 whilst we tucked into the prawns,

 which were delicious, Diana had put pieces of red and yellow fresh peppers in with the prawns as well as garlic butter, then grated a frozen lemon over the top of them,

 our main course, sausages from KPK Foods, with baked potatoes covered in onions and garlic butter cooked in foil, we finished with chilled pineapple, 'Cheers!',

after a few glasses of medicinal red wine we went inside, I suggested watching The Third Man, I did not think Diana would say yes as she does not like black & white films, but she said yes, which was great as I think it is worth watching more than a few times, here are my comments one other time I watched it,



'an out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna (this is a great site for tracking down locations where the movie was shot in Vienna), divided into sectors by the victorious allies, and where a shortage of supplies has lead to a flourishing black market. He arrives at the invitation of an ex-school friend, Harry Lime, who has offered him a job, only to discover that Lime has recently died in a peculiar traffic accident, then the chase for truth begins,


strangely enough the behind the scenes intrigue could almost be made into a film, like one of the most memorable lines in the film by Harry Lime (Orson Welles) 'in Italy for thirty years under the Borgia's they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance, in Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? the cuckoo clock,' all of this was not in the book, Orson just made it up as he finished the scene, also the Swiss pointed out at the time they did not invent the cuckoo clock,


another little known fact is that the author (Henry) Graham Greene based Harry Lime on a real life friend who he worked for in MI6, the traitor Kim Philby who he stayed friends with after his defection, also unlike The Shinning that had 24 minuets cut from it for European audiences the same happened to The Third Man but the other way around, 11 minuets was cut from the version released in America, it appears that American audiences at the time had to be protected from an actor playing an American drunkard, Joseph Cotten playing the part of Holly Martins, another little snippet, the grave that was dug up in the film was not a grave but it is now a real grave of a person named Grün well translated into English it is Green, the name of the author, what are the chances?'


a great film well worth watching again, 
 

to round off the evening a couple from New Tricks series 9, then after those we were off to bed.