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

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

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!

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!

Off on a ten minute downhill walk to our town centre for some shopping; the downside being, when laden with goodies, it is, naturally a ten minute walk UPhill to return home! Has to be done though, I have developed this weird habit of eating every day, to stay alive!

Diagram

Currently just over halfway through my umpteenth re-read of all the John Mortimer 'Rumpole' books/stories. Like Jeeves & Wooster, Rumpole typifies a version of Britain that does not exist, but which is a nice place (in print) where the good people usually triumph.

Had Number four shot 'the booster' and had my flu jab in the other arm, both at the same time. No side effects from either shot, but both arms felt sore as though I had been punched hard on the muscles!

Good Day Sunshine - The Beatles

Buying