Sunday afternoon

I spent half the morning preparing lunch while Kate was busy sticking tiles on the loo floor. As Andrew was the only meat eater today, he roasted the lamb in his house (so we veggies didn’t have to deal with it), and then he decided that it wasn’t cooked sufficiently for his taste, so we all had a veggie roast lunch. (He left the lamb in for a while longer, and will lunch on it through the week.)

Pudding was cheese & biscuits. Red Leicester, Emmental, Pié d’Angloys, and a crumbly Lancashire were the cheeses of choice, with Hovis digestives and Carr’s water biscuits. Kate is a big fan of Lancashire cheese — having passed by a Booth’s on the way home from Wales last weekend, Kate was well supplied with her favourite (even better than Wensleydale, I am told). I prefer the Pié d’Angloys, which I think is the finest cheese that our local Morrisons stocks. Beth has developed a particular fondness for pickled onions with her cheese. Many were consumed.

I’ve spent the afternoon trying to get a VAT invoice out of Google Apps Premier, Andrew is copying some of his files onto my Drobo for a backup (or maybe a master copy), and Kate and Beth are doing a craft project, making something on the dining room table.

We’re heading out swimming shortly.

Next up: must plan our Christmas party lunch. Keep your diaries free for Sunday 20 December.

Sunday afternoon

I spent half the morning preparing lunch while Kate was busy sticking tiles on the loo floor. As Andrew was the only meat eater today, he roasted the lamb in his house (so we veggies didn’t have to deal with it), and then he decided that it wasn’t cooked sufficiently for his taste, so we all had a veggie roast lunch. (He left the lamb in for a while longer, and will lunch on it through the week.)

Pudding was cheese & biscuits. Red Leicester, Emmental, Pié d’Angloys, and a crumbly Lancashire were the cheeses of choice, with Hovis digestives and Carr’s water biscuits. Kate is a big fan of Lancashire cheese — having passed by a Booth’s on the way home from Wales last weekend, Kate was well supplied with her favourite (even better than Wensleydale, I am told). I prefer the Pié d’Angloys, which I think is the finest cheese that our local Morrisons stocks. Beth has developed a particular fondness for pickled onions with her cheese. Many were consumed.

I’ve spent the afternoon trying to get a VAT invoice out of Google Apps Premier, Andrew is copying some of his files onto my Drobo for a backup (or maybe a master copy), and Kate and Beth are doing a craft project, making something on the dining room table.

We’re heading out swimming shortly.

Next up: must plan our Christmas party lunch. Keep your diaries free for Sunday 20 December.

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UFO

Sunday night viewing is a handful of episodes of UFO. We’ve been recording them from ITV4.

While having seen and greatly enjoyed pretty much everything else that Gerry Anderson made, somehow UFO passed me by. So here in 2009 we are enjoying the best that 1970 can offer us. And there is much to enjoy — the performances, the model work, the uniforms, the theme music, the hairstyles on moonbase, and the adult tone compared with his other work.

I guess like the rest of Anderson’s work these were made on 35mm, so I can hope for an HD release on Bluray at some point. Oh yes, I’d buy that.

UFO

Sunday night viewing is a handful of episodes of UFO. We’ve been recording them from ITV4.

While having seen and greatly enjoyed pretty much everything else that Gerry Anderson made, somehow UFO passed me by. So here in 2009 we are enjoying the best that 1970 can offer us. And there is much to enjoy — the performances, the model work, the uniforms, the theme music, the hairstyles on moonbase, and the adult tone compared with his other work.

I guess like the rest of Anderson’s work these were made on 35mm, so I can hope for an HD release on Bluray at some point. Oh yes, I’d buy that.

This entry was originally posted at http://tobyaw.dreamwidth.org/165652.html.