We're all at home and Corrie's on the telly - good background for blogging. Good to see Gary, Lucy and Jo all blogging again - keep it up!
So how was our weekend? Pretty good actually. Friday night was the usual few beers and a chat with the footy lads - always a good laugh. As I went out, Jo said she was jealous and lamented the fact that none of her pals wanted to go out and do the same!
On Saturday, Jo and I walked along to the Burnett for an early bite before jumping on the bus to Aberdeen to attend the annual CAMRA meeting that selects the pubs from our area that will make it in to the Good Beer Guide next year - and which ones will be our Pub(s) of the Year. We had a few beers there then walked from the Dutch Mill in the West End all the way down to Union Square to go to the cinema.
We were tight for time so it was a very brisk pace - but what a disappointment when we got there. I had screwed up somehow - I had checked the programme guides very quickly before we left the house and thought that if we got there before 5:30 pm, we would have the choice of Tarantino's Django Unchained or Speilberg's Lincoln - or even Ben Affleck's Argo if we were prepared to wait another hour or so. Not so.
We thought we'd try one more and headed off to the Vue, but neither film was on there at a suitable time either. Oh well, nothing for it then - another beer at the Brentwood then head down to the Jewel in the Crown - we hadn't been there for years - and it was terrific.
The pace had been a bit hectic and Jo took a bit of a funny turn for a few minutes, but she was soon well enough to climb up the famous Bridge St. stairs (a bit like Waverley Steps in Edinburgh) with the carrot of a beer and a curry to keep her going!
Nice day out - and Sunday was another lovely mild, almost spring-like day, which allowed me to play my first game of golf for over 3 months. It was great to be out again - and I even played pretty well.
You've probably gathered that we're really in to our crime series on TV - and there's lots of good quality ones around just now. Sorry, Jo, but this doesn't include your favourite Midsomer Murders, Murder She Wrote etc.
I mentioned The Following and The Fear before, but we've now started the new Vegas series as well, plus another foreign language one - State of Terror. It's series 4 of the latter, so we're latecomers to it, but it looks pretty good so far, even if it's in French with subtitles.
Last week there were a lot of programmes on radio and TV commemorating - and with other stars trying to replicate - the Beatles' feat of recording their first album, Please Please Me under the intense time pressure of finishing the whole album in just 12 hours on one day 50 years ago last week. I have to swallow hard each time I say that - 50 years! - where has it gone?
I can remember it like it was yesterday - I was approaching my 14th birthday and this album was released. I didn't even have a record player then, but one of my pals did and we all used to congregate round at his house on every spare minute we had. It may not seem like it now, but it was revolutionary at the time and marked the start of the rock era as far as albums were concerned. Prior to that, LP's ("long-players") were mostly for classical acts, or were soundtracks for movies and musicals etc., but this changed all that.
I can still sing along to every word on the album and I instantly know what song's next when one stops - it's ingrained on me. This is the famous iconic cover:
Ah - memories.
No comments:
Post a Comment