We Had A Quiet Day,

so there are no pictures today,

somehow the day just slipped past, but in the evening we watched apart from Ade In Britain and a couple of quiz shows the film, The Good Shepherd, it was fairly slow in places and at times a tad difficult to follow, but was loosely based on real events and composites of real people, Edward Wilson, the character played by Matt Damon, is based at least in part on James Jesus Angleton, the long-serving director of the CIA's Counterintelligence Staff who also fell victim to intense paranoia during his career, which made watching the film more than a little confusing at times and covert operations specialist Richard Bissell, Bill Sullivan, the character played by Robert De Niro, is based on William Stephenson and William Joseph Donovan, William Hurt's character Phillip Allen is likely based on former CIA Director Allen Dulles, while Lee Pace's character Richard Hayes shares some similarities, including a similar name, to Dulles' eventual successor Richard Helms, add to all of that the time frame and geographical context, the Cambridge Five, the Bay of Pigs to mention just few and it gets really complicated, still some good came out of watching the film, I found out that I would make a terrible spy master, during the course of the film I would have promoted most of the 'bad' guys and liquidated if that is the correct term all of the 'good' guys!

next one from Poirot that we had seen before and one we had not, The Murder of Richard Ackroyd, again like the previous film complicated but a joy to watch, with that we were off to bed.