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Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith

The Night Before - The Beatles

I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day - Wizzard

Final three presents to be delivered by hand and thats me done for this year!

Started to watch the TV series of 'Willow'. Not too impressed so far it seems to be missing the magic of the film.

Revolt

Nice to meet you!

In My Life - The Beatles

Final three presents bought,wrapped and ready to go! So barring anything unexpected I am ready for it!

Started to watch Dwayne Johnson in 'Black Adam' as I generally like his films. Found this comic book story tedious and too self aware, and lost the will to live after half an hour, so I abandoned it!

Christmas cards all written and stamped,ready to go; anothr pile unstamped to be posted by hand locally; Presents for my Son and Grandaughter all sorted. Just three more presents to buy for close friends and I will be done!

Atticus Finch from 'To Kill a Mockingbird

Just finished the final series of the Spanish drama 'Money Heist'. Complex and twisting narrative with many flashbacks that put a different spin on some of what you think you know! Huge cast of characters, most of who you get the back-story of (but not all) with a tense atmosphere that covers the two robberies that take place within the story. For diffferent reasons,the streaming service I watched it on had the original Spanish soundtrack on series 1 to 4, with subtitles,and then series 5 was dubbed with mainly US accents!

One of the very few books that I abandoned, just short of the halfway mark. It defeated me, I just could not engage with it beyond a certain point.

Dancing in The Dark - Bruce Springsteen

Scalds

Highlands

Tigger

Three Times a Lady - The Commodores

Rewatched for the umpteenth time, 'Alien', 'Aliens', Alien 3' and 'Alien Resurrection'. The first two have always been good, on their repective levels, three was always a poor film; but I managed to see the 'Special Edition' of Alien 3 and it has an extra thirty minutes of footage added,and works much better overall. 'Resurrection' was always a divisive film,and I always liked it anyway! But watching it again after some years, it still by and large works for me, for what it is!

And for those of us who have no interest in the event,there are millions of good books out there with your name on,waiting to be enjoyed!

I picked up a hardback copy of the original Earthsea Trilogy (as it was then!) in our good local secondhand bookshop, and did not realise it was primarily for children! I enjoyed it anyway and picked up the subsequent books as they were published.

To me, 'To KIll a Mockingbird' is one of the most faithful adaptation of a book I love, to the big screen. 'Shawshank Redemption' comes close,although if you are familiar with the novella, there are a few changes.

Re-reading A,J.Cronin's 'The Stars Look Down'. A magnificent book about the class struggle and workers rights that was a rather good TV series many years ago, and a pretty poor film. The reason the film was poor, it only covered the first half of the book, and omitted all the political aspects that came later.

I have a couple of editions of Hemmingways 'The Old Man and The Sea' which clock in at 80 pages and 92 pages respectively. A story I love, so no matter what length it may be printed at, I am 'in' for a read of it. The length of a story does not matter in the least to me, providing that I am interested in it!