Blog Posted,

and I was off to visit Duncan,

it was a grey day, actually with a tad of rain on the way down, Duncan was his usual self, but in the day room, he is put there so that he can 'interact' with the other guests, which is not really on, unless he wants to join them in community sleeping, but there it is, we chatted about our trip to the Little Ships, and a few other places that we are planning to visit when his lunch arrived, so we said our farewells until next week, 

outside the weather had not improved, arriving home I decided to watch a film in the afternoon, as I was going to give playing with photographs a miss for a few days, 

I decided on a film I had not watched for some time, it was a foreign import titled Siete Dias De Mayo, or 7 Days In May, the DVD has a English soundtrack and subtitles, but if you do buy a copy make sure yours also does, set in the paranoia of the cold war in the 1960s, U.S. President Jordan Lyman (Fredric March) hopes to bring an end to the Cold War by signing a nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviets, much to the displeasure of the hawkish General James Scott (Burt Lancaster), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, when Scott's aide, Martin "Jiggs" Casey (Kirk Douglas) stumbles on shattering evidence that the General is plotting a coup to overthrow Lyman in seven days, "Jiggs" alerts the President, setting off a dangerous race to thwart the takeover, it is for me a stunningly good film especially as at the time it was released (1964), I was 14 years old, with the Cuban missile crisis just 2 years behind us, a thoroughly recommended film if you are familiar with the time and paranoia of the period, 

next a read and a sherry,

followed by a huge chili con carne that Diana had made for me, 'Cheers!',

I had thrown a few peanuts out of the window for the foxes, this one in need of some TLC, as soon as I clicked the camera shutter he heard it, 

and was off to the security of the garden hedge, his tail like the rest of him in a sorry state, for myself back to a film for the evening, 

The Day the Earth Stood Still, I had watched it before, the comments I made when we first watched it still hold true, 'great special effects but take those away and the comments I made when we first looked at it still apply, the 1951 original leaves the 2008 version squirming painfully in the dust, it could have been so much better', after which Diana arrived home so feet up for a coffee and a chat as we watched It Ain't Half Hot Mum, before we were off to bed.