rhino_neil

So first day of the year.

Broadly speaking a good day.

Slight lie in as it's a holiday even though I didn't go out or have a drink.

So out of the house for a walk round the hill, I did about four miles in 2 ours, which considering the conditions I'm happy with.

culture - Escape from Athena - old 70s war movie with Roger Moore.  Started  out bright, breezy, quite funny and turned into big raid the monastery film.  On wiki, it was said Lew Grade loved the second half with motor cycle chases and action.  I though the comedy with Elliot Gould and David Niven was much better. 

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2.  I missed it at the cinema and frankly I didn't miss much.  Iliked the first film, but despite the long lost father plot, it was more of the same and I didn't care.

watched some TOTP but the highlight was he documentary on "Saturday Night Fever" by Bruno from SCD. Lots of original production team and actors, including Travolta and original behind the scenes filming.  Great slice of film making at that time and lovely to see a big star so enthusiastic about his first big picture.  I must actually hunt out the film.  More gritty than I was aware, I think I always thought it was similar in tone to Grease.  It's not!

Spent some money on clothes on line.  Decided to go a bit black and red and goth.  So cutting down the colours  and doing something not high street, but not really out there.  ddid some jobs round the flat and cooked sweet and sour chicken using a simple pasta sauce as base but doing the flavours from scratch.

So it's very spring like, warm sun, cool air.

I did a wander into town and bought some new rucksacks of differing sizes in the Mountain warehouse sale. I likes a good rucksack and having different sizes for different needs! The assistant liked by "War" Doctor t-shirt as well!

Quick wander to Waterstones, books bought - Neil Gaiman - The View from the Cheap Seats - Selected Non Fiction. Covering things he believes, people he has known, sci fi, comics, and more.

As usual I thought, there's nowhere in Perth I actually want to sit down and have a coffee, so I headed for the Twa Tams and found a new coffee place "Al Frescos", bad pun aside it had a decent courtyard that wasn't directly on a main road or pavement and gets the sun. The coffee was mediocre but I was happy to give them some money. Hopefully they'll find a niche and stick around. I'll certainly try and give them some custom!

S back home and a bit of catching up on email with an old friend and some reading whilst going for the easy listening bosa nova jazz box set I bought for background light hearted music. Nice.

I', actually reading "All Our Wrong Todays" by Elan Mastai, which half way in I remain deeply unconvinced by!