It Seems Incredible,

Sunday is here again!

so time for my read and sherry, 

before we tucked into one of those delicious spring rolls, 

for today it was roast beef, with lashings of gravy for Diana, sans gravy for myself,

'Cheers!',

and then another treat, peach halves with ice cream, after which a move to the sofas, we spent the afternoon with Columbo, and then we noticed for some reason Midsomer Murders were being shown back to back, which brought us up nicely to our evening snack, then time for a film, to round off our evening, 

 The Legend of 1900, shortly after the Second World War, Max, a transplanted American, visits an English pawn shop to sell his trumpet, the shopkeeper recognizes the tune Max plays as one on a wax master of an unreleased recording, discovered and restored from shards found in a piano salvaged from a cruise ship turned hospital ship, now slated for demolition, then hears the story of a piano player that has never left the ship in his life,

as an aside, a real life and famous jazz player appears in the film, none other than Jelly Roll Morten, the man with the diamond smile, if you click on to the link you can read more about him, if you have not seen the film, give it a try, quite entertaining and some very nice music included, after that as Diana has a 05.00AM start, we were then off to bed.

Diana Was At Work,

I then decided to load my new super fast computer with a few games, 

which resulted in a miserable day for myself, I loaded a cribbage and a solitaire game, also I had a shop bought copy of Will Rock, so I loaded all of those, the Will Rock only worked in a quarter of the screen the other 2 games were fine, I then decided to play with a few photographs, but, somehow the program went mustang, I spent all day as well as some time on the telephone to Bob trying to get the editing programs working again, apparently one of the games I had installed impacted badly with the editing programs I use, eventually after uninstalling the new ones I put in as well as all of the editing programs and reinstalling just them I was back where I started! I will not install anything else with out giving it serous thought, anyway by 4.30 in the afternoon I played with the photograph above, which is straight out of the camera, 

I eventually ended up with this, next time for my evening meal, 

but first a read and a sherry, 

for tonight Diana had made me a huge chili con carne, 'Cheers!', there did not seem to be much on the television so a film it was, 

Cromwell, from the blurb:

'Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War'

after which Diana arrived home, as Diana is not working tomorrow we thought we could stay up late and watch a film, so, 

The Shawshank Redemption, it was, it was set in the 1940's, the film shows how Andy Dufresne, with the help of his friend Red, the prison entrepreneur, spend their time to forge a lasting friendship, many people claim that the film is based on a true life story, have a look here and you decide, then for us we were off to bed.

I Was Meeting Diana In Croydon,

so off to the rear of Beckenham Junction station, 

no not to get a train, 

but to use the footbridge, 

to the tram stop, where I was just in time to see one leave,

12 minutes apart I read another one arrived, 

I alighted in George Street, Croydon,

and was soon overtaken by the tram,

it disappeared down the step hill towards Wimbledon, 

I made my way into the High Street, 

Diana was looking in Primark,

I had a look at one of the stores that were in the old Alders building,

we meet up and started walking towards Surrey Street market,

and here it is, fruit and vegetable stalls, still here from when mum and myself would shop here in the mid 1950s,

behind us,

another tram was heading down the hill,

we had a look in a couple of wet fish shops, but did not see any shellfish, so we started looking at the market stalls, 

this was like being home in Thailand, a sugar cane crusher, 

pots of produce laid on on every stall,

Diana having a look at a few exotic vegetables, 

these peppers such a vibrant red in a grey day,

out of the market,

past the civic sign and water fountain at the end of the market,

but here a sign of the times, 

boarded up shops, and what was once a pedestrian arcade with shops both sides, 

now somewhere to practice graffiti, 

having said that this colorful display was for a thriving business, 

at the side,

and front, a very gayly coloured facade, 

it was the frontage of Dave's Hot Chicken,

next for us a coffee and cake, 

well a couple of dishes for Diana, a hot sausage roll for myself,

back onto the tram, alighting at Beckenham Junction, 

a walk past the green,

and into Marks & Spencer's, a few things needed, 

well we could not go past O'Neil's without buying a J2O orange for Diana, and a pint for myself, 'Cheers!',

then time for my evening read and sherry, 

'Cheers!', again, for tonight saveloys with spicy chips, gherkins and silver skin onions,

plus a few chicken legs and rice for Diana, it was already late so straight on with our evening film, a true story as it happens,

 10 Rillington Place, it was about the serial killer, John Christie, also the spotlight for the anti hanging brigade, a intellectually challenged person Timothy Evens took the drop for Christy and was ultimately though tragically to late pardoned, this case led the anti hanging brigade to ultimate victory, no blood and guts, just a true chilling statement of the facts in what was post war Britain, we rounded off the evening on a lighter though thoughtful note,

Blue Planet II is just so good, we have in fact watched it once before but it was a delight to watch the first disc in the series again, especially as it was filmed in 4K, after which we were off to bed.