Sunday Has Raced Around Again,

where do the days go?

I started Sunday after a read of the newspapers with a sherry and another read, this time the latest issue of Private Eye,

for our starter today a crayfish tail avocado salad, 

which was delicious, 

followed by gammon ham, with gravy for Diana sans gravy for myself, 

'Cheers!', it was then feet up for a Columbo, we watched one but then the next was one we had seen recently, 

Diana then decided on Sink the Bismarck!, she likes to watch old classic films on a Sunday, this is what I wrote when we watched the film in August 2013, 'full of stiff upper lip', it was a interesting film from my point of view if for no other reason one of the Swingate kids had a Dad who was on one of the ships in the sinking of it, in those days there was a naval base H.M.S. Pembroke in Chatham, where one side of my fathers family originally came from, also I spent more than a few days there when the faculty was open to the public on Navy Days, this is a 1954 example of a typical 'Navy Day' for the public, I seem to remember my first day to watch the spectacle I must have been about 8 or so four years after the article, but back to the battle to sink the Bismarck, for a more factual account of the battle have a look here,' after a small snack in the evening, it was time for,

Needful Things which we both enjoyed, we had watched it before, this is what I wrote at the time, 'I had read this book by Stephen King many years ago, a great story, the film starred Ed Harris, and what more could a film need? the film got a little muddled in the middle, but it still gets my vote, basically the devil comes to town and sells the inhabitants things that they think they need for a small cash price and a big moral favor, the townsfolk turn on each other by playing more and more serious pranks on each other with a third party taking the blame, then chaos reigns' also I might mention that the fight between two of the ladies, the characters Nettie Cobb and Wilma Jerzyck was the most realistic sequence involving ladies fighting that I have ever seen, we followed that with one from the It Ain't Half Hot Mum box set before we were off to bed.