I missed posting today. I’m not sure how. I just got down to work and suddenly, the day was gone. Got up a bit late, correspondence, breakfast and back to work. Julia went out to take a dress for alteration for the coming wedding and I prepared lunch ready for her return. This included the coleslaw left over from a couple of nights ago, baby tomatoes, olives and the last of Tuesday’s quiche. Back to work (if pushing words round paper can be classed as “work”) then TV quizzes. Cook tea. (Julia is suffering with her back so I am trying to be a good husband). Watched the last episode of Fringe, a sci-fi, time travel, police procedural, and I felt able to relax. Left to myself I would probably not have carried on past episode 2 or 3 but Julia liked it and it began to make more sense. Then it introduced the parallel dimension, then the time travel and at that point It stopped making sense again. I struggled to the end as Julia liked it but feel it would have been better with a run half as long.
Then we started watching The Marlow Murder Club. We’ve been waiting to start it. I look on it as a reward for sitting through Fringe. I’m much happier with this – small town in UK, murders that don’t include melting faces or alien animals, good quality detective plots and time progresses in a linear fashion.
It’s not ground-breaking or cutting edge and it merges with many similar programmes, but it’s a nice relaxing watch with a lot of good actors.
Photos are from Julia’s 2018 visit to Malta when she and No 2 Son went to visit No 1 Son, who was working there. A hand holding a small bird is an ironic image for a Mediterranean island famous for slaughtering migrating birds in great numbers.
There are days like that, that go sailing right by! I remember some of the old Scfi made for TV movies from when I was young. I don’t remember the title, but the large slug-like creature doing the carnage was absorbing and digesting the hapless astronauts.
I must have missed that – I’m sure I would have remembered a giant slug. 🙂
It was memorable. 🙂
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We are on Bergerac at the moment
I enjoyed the relaunch and am looking forward to watching then rest. I may even have a go at the early series, though I often regret going back to the originals.
I will look at Marlow in a new light when I go to visit my brother in law.
It’s rapidly approaching Sy Mary Mead and Cabot Cove in terms of violent death. It will soon be catching up with Oxford . . .
love marlow murder club!!
🙂 Glad to hear it. It deserves to do well because it has all the elements required by a good cosy mystery, and has avoided most of the mistakes.