Diana Had Today Off,

as she worked on Sunday, 

I spent the morning on the telephone, settling up the shops invoices, in the afternoon we were out, warm clothes on, it was still frosty from the morning,

and this is where we were going, the Vue cinema in Bromley, 

to watch this Avatar: Fire and Ash, 

well I just had to!

drink purchased, 

and we were inside, 

we had the comfy reclining seats, £15.00 each plus £2.00 to buy the 3D glasses, I just love 3D films,

naturally we came well prepared, the cinema does not sell Buterkist popcorn or chocolate raisins so we brought our own, 

but what we did not bring was one of these, Diana was hungry, 

this is the official UK cinema poster, I will not say too much in case you have not watched it yet, but we both thought it much better than the second film in the series The Way of the Water, in fact we thought it better than the first, but a slight word of caution, at 3 hours and 17 minutes long, make sure to take a trip to the bathroom before you start viewing! 

after leaving it was a walk from the bottom of the High Street to the top, it was sad to see so many shops boarded up, one every so often, then a couple next to one another, then three in a row together, also a big store with many windows was boarded up, Bromley is getting like Croydon, haemorrhaging shops along its High Street, well I should know having just closed my shop in Beckenham how difficult things are for retail stores,

on a happier note we were walking to the Mount Everest Nepalese restaurant, one of our 2 favorite Indian type restaurants we like, as it happens the other Kathmandu Masala is also Nepalese, after some poppadums and a starter of lamb samosas for Diana and a prawn puri for myself, 

we decided on a chicken tikka masala, a lamb Gurkha, which is lamb cooked with peas in a medium spiced sauce, recipe from Gurkha Land Nepal, accompanied with mushroom fried rice and some nan bread, there was so much of it a doggie bag was needed! including a coke and a coffee for Diana and a bottle of red for myself the bill came to £93.23 including a 10% service charge, at today's rate $126.39, as I have mentioned before, eating out in the UK is no longer cheap! arriving home it was feet up for a couple of television programs, tonight a old favorite was showing, 

Call My Bluff, a great quiz show, basically two teams of three alternate between giving and guessing the meanings of obscure English words, all of which are found in the OED. (Oxford English Dictionary), for a little more detail of the game, the game comprised two teams of three (a captain and two guests) who would compete to earn points by identifying the correct definitions of obscure words. 

The teams take turns to give three definitions, one true and two bluffs, while the other team attempted to determine which was correct, examples of words used in the show, taken from a 1972 book published in connection with it, include queach, strongle, ablewhacket, hickboo, jargoon, zurf, morepork, and jirble. 

The word queach was defined by the contestants as "a malicious caricature", "a cross between a quince and a peach" and "a mini-jungle of mixed vegetation" (with the last definition being the true one), it was great fun and amazingly Diana did in fact choose the correct definition more often than I did, the program was broadcast between 17 October 1965 to 22 December 1988, I have to admit I enjoyed it at the time and so did many others as can be seen from the number of shows that were broadcast, there were 12 series shown on BBC1 and 25 series on BBC2, BBC1 showing 469 episodes and 542 episodes in BBC2, just over 1,000 episodes, amazing! after which Diana was off to bed, for myself a Have I Got A Bit More News For You before I too was off to bed.