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[caddyman]

The trip into the West End started a little later than intended, given our inability to get moving this morning.

The sales were disappointing, though I managed to pick up a box set of The Prisoner on DVD for £19.98 and a copy of the BBC's recent adaptation of Bleak House - not in the sale but for once reasonably priced. Elle picked up a copy of Plunkett & Macleane for a fiver in FOPP, so it wasn't an entire waste. A quick pint in the Round Table was followed by a trip to Pizza Hut for something suitably lardy before she hits her Weight Watchers diet and I start looking askance at fruit and stuff as part of the "healthier (but boring) lifestyle" that we are supposed to be leading in 2007. Maybe I can hold out until Chinese New Year and make a resolution of it then...?

I faded for a couple of hours this evening, crashing out on the bed. Happily I recovered long enough for us to watch Bad Day At Black Rock and a further episode of BSG. Ah, good stuff. My aged and temperamental DVD player seemed not to want to play the former to begin with, so I had to gull it into thinking I was going to watch something else and then quickly switch the DVDs over. Hah! It will be a long time before I am out-thought by a crotchety DVD player.

I have decided that in terms of clothing and temperature tolerance, Londoners are by and large, complete wimps. The number of people wandering around wrapped up against non-existent Arctic temperatures today was astounding. I was wearing my leather jacket and a tee shirt and generally felt rather warm at that. I certainly haven't felt the need to insert the winter liner as yet. It got a bit chillier after the sun went down, but not intolerably so. If this be Winter, I am looking to emigrate somewhere habitably cool for the Summer. If I can spend early January in a tee shirt and jacket, God alone knows what July and August will be like.

Comments

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

The Prisoner for £20 - Bargain!

[binidj.livejournal.com]

Not entirely ... guess what the Fox got as part of his Christmas present this year?

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

Mein Gott!

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

It is interesting how HMV on-line are under-cutting their own retail outlets. How long will it be before we read the next series of complaints about on-line shopping killing the high street?

I know from personal experience of a business venture entered into by friends of mine that killed itself off through just such practices.

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

But still, The Prisoner for £15.99, less than £1 per episode. Broke as I am it's sorely tempting...

[binidj.livejournal.com]

Quite, I went in to my local HMV to buy the above box-set, knowing how much it was on their website. On the shelf it was £60 and when I asked an assistant to check on their intranet, that price was confirmed ... I was gobsmacked and apologetically told the assistant (who'd been friendly, polite and helpful) that I was really sorry but I'd have to buy it from the website.

I cannot understand the mindset of a company that charges different prices depending on whether the customer shops in their store or their website.

[pauln.livejournal.com]

There's then the "Traditional" (Annunciation Style) New Year - 25th March (which with the 11 Lost Days becomes 6th April and New Financial Year).

A whole host of others to be found at Wikpedia's New Year entry

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

Wot a coincidence, Bry: only yesterday I was reading on Wikipedia about The Prisoner, as I've never seen it. That's right, never. One of the guys I shared a house with in Wood Green in the late '80s liked it, and I saw isolated scenes, but it looked a bit far-fetched to me, particularly the notion of being intimidated by a balloon. Obviously, I have to see the whole thing in context.

I have been similarly unimpressed by such cultural phenomena as Seinfeld and X Files. Feel free to educate me, good sir!

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

According to the latest weather predictions the combination of Global warming and it being an El Nino (can't find how to do the twiddley thingy) year could put this next summer into the record books and should really upset people with it being HOT here and wet and windy every where except where wet and windy is needed.
Personally I believe that all this weather stuff is not global warming but the poles reversing. I think they start off slowly for a couple of hundred years and then do the last bit very quickly with a sort of spoinging noise so just be warned.