Things are getting better. I didn’t take any painkillers last night and my hand didn’t hurt overnight. It was also usable this morning. Unfortunately all my other joints were stiffer than usual and getting dressed took a while longer than I would hve liked. That’s the trouble with painkillers, you can come to rely on them. I will just hve to get used to life without chemical assistance.
I watched The Marlow Murder Club this week – a good two part mystery set in the Buckingham town of Marlow. It was very enjoyable – good cast, good characters, reasonable plot, though it did rather depend on a well-worn plot device (which I won’t reveal). I spotted it a little way into the second episode and was able to have a decent go at unravelling it. Do not believe the review behind the link when it says the ending comes as a “genuine surprise” – it doesn’t.
Bear with tools
It’s by the writer who created Death in Paradise. That annoyed me this week by having a solution that depended on (a) a talking parrot and (b) a solution that depended on you spotting that one item was missing. I felt we didn’t get much of a chance to solve it. I also think that, in line with all the rules/guidelines relating to mysterious orientals, identical twins and secret passages, talking parrots should be banned.
This is the second week where we have avoided The Apprentice, and have enjoyed ourselves much more as a result. The formula is old and dull now, the apprentices are dreadful, Karen and Tim are poor replacements for Nick and Margaret and somebody appears to have told Alan Sugar that he is funny. He isn’t.
Bear in the Garden
The only one of these programmes I have ever seen is Death in Paradise. I leave it to Jackie now. Good news about the hand. Strangely enough I was tempted to use pain killers yesterday, but successfully resisted.
I will continue to avoid The Apprentice. Thank you.
Good choice. We started watching it but week by week we remembered why we had become fed up with it. It’s hard to give up mid-series but we have certainly found the effort of stopping watching has been well worth it.
Wonderful pictures of Bear! Thanks for the Marlow Murder Club recommendation. I don’t know if we can get it here, but I will check to see if it is available on any of the streaming services we subscribe to. Glad you are feeling a little better.
Thank you. Yes, it’s worth watching if you can get it.
The series name Death in Paradise brought back memories of a TV series over here called Strange Paradise, that was on 1969-1970. It was a strange show.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Paradise
That’s a ne one on me, and I thought I knew a fair bit on the subject. 🙂