Month: February 2024

My evening entertainment was with Martin Shaw as Judge John Deed pulling the wool over the eyes of those trying to bring him down and moulding the law to bring the right results. The early walk terminated at the river but was otherwise unremarkable other than all of the big puddles which had dried up.…

TV watching was mostly Unforgotten which must be approaching the conclusion as the various perpetrators are being tracked down of which one has been stabbed. A file was accidentally left in a coffee bar by one of the investigating officers, information leaked onto the Web and the public domain so someone took it upon themselves…

Grantchester concerned the culmination of the Gross Indecency trial of the curate which ended with him being sent to prison for six months due to the fact he was in a position of authority. The setting is 1956, a year before the Wolfenden Report was published which was created by a committee of the same…

The evening was exciting. Not because of the telly viewing which was good anyway, but the thunderstorm, complete with torrential rainfall. Strangely, all of the dogs had elected to come inside. Usually, Maya seems to prefer to remain outside but may come in for the night and Obi sometimes joins her except if it’s cold…

Second attempt as I fell asleep whilst writing and deleted all of my text. Always a good idea to set the publish time into the future so your work is backed up. Take two, abbreviated version… I watched Thursday and Morse solve a difficult case involving extortion and murder. The morning was mild and windless…

It was action all the way with Line Of Duty. We had vehicles chasing each other, lots of shooting and a couple of deaths not to mention various threats of harm. There’s a way to go to the conclusion so more excitement to come. I watched some tips and tricks videos on the iPad and…

Alice isn’t helping Luther by killing his protagonist’s son right under the noses of all the heavies of which, now, there is one fewer. As usual, Luther is trying to do the right thing but possibly compromising everything else at the same time. By the look of the preview snapshots of the next episode, it’s…

Michael Kitchen (Detective Chief Superintendent Foyle – Foyle’s War) plays the pious but philandering religious leader of a local church who is carrying on with a wellness clinician. She is found dead, not far from the location where they met above the butcher’s shop, the owner of which is another of the church’s parishioners. The…

With an Internet connection I was able to enjoy BritBox and an episode of The Gentle Touch. Quite an amusing storyline about a man living in some pretty uninspiring social housing flats in an older 1980’s London building. Noisy stairways with no lifts and children running around. He was living with his very young son…

Another orgy of YouTube as there was still no Internet connection to the camping or elsewhere locally, I believe. Nothing particularly stands out but there were lots of Tiny House videos. Another warm and starry morning with most of the dogs keeping up most of the time. Luis, well, he’s Luis and just does his…

The whole evening was a YouTube Fest as I felt it would use less data considering there was no VDSL via the WiFi. I finished off watching the Alaska cabin build right up until the guy spent his first night there with his faithful friend Norman. During the entire construction process, Norman was always to…

Hetty Wainthropp succeeded where the police drew a blank and received a windfall of £15,000 for providing information leading to the arrest of the person setting houses on fire. The finale of Hetty and team receiving a huge cheque then Hetty doing tap as part of the cabaret. Hetty was followed with a trip to…

Spooks has lost another agent in an hotel explosion during an important peace conference. The CIA also lost an agent too. I’m not quite sure, but some of the agents have died before and amazingly reappear a little like in Dallas. It just shows how difficult it is to kill off a good character. Fletcher…

In Oxford for a couple of murders by an unlikely perpetrator and then some YouTube videos to finish off the evening. There was rain during the night and early morning with more forecast during the day. We went out and completed our walks, just later. There was some slight precipitation whilst we were at the…

Hercule solved a difficult couple of murders involving all manner of complications. I even managed to stay awake the entire time and mostly during my comparatively brief visit to YouTube although I eventually fell asleep having ignored the telltale signs. We didn’t get up as it was raining when the alarm went off. Our walks…

Major Stirling wasn’t having a good time. His girlfriend/lover, head of the French secret service for North Africa, hitched a ride in a mail plane so she could meet up with him after his latest and very successful operation. Sadly, the plane encountered a severe sandstorm and crashed in the desert. She is presumed lost.…

I accidentally watched Wallander which I felt was quite gripping. All to do with a gang trying to totally disrupt banks to cause financial mayhem. It’s the second of this series which was created by the BBC with Kenneth Branagh as Wallander. It’s in English with English actors so may lack the authenticity which some…

There was rain in the evening but it was quite light so didn’t amount to more than .02mm. I’ve not seen Perry Mason in a while so it was good to catch up with another 1950’s story of deceit with only one murder. Wicked nephew gets in with bored and lonely wife to embezzle loads…

Waterloo Road wasn’t my first viewing choice but it was nonetheless quite enjoyable. The head teacher was being blackmailed by a student for an alleged romantic encounter. The student produced her baby in class which turned out to be full-term so could not have been anything to do with the head. I spent the remainder…

The gripping final episode of Vigil was a fine culmination for the first season with a good mixture to keep most viewers interested. I shall embark on the second season quite soon. I watched The Good Karma Hospital with a building collapse and an attempted drowning as well a looking into the moral dilemma of…

Waterloo Road dealt with the death of a pupil brought about during a joyriding incident involving other pupils. The various other sub-plots wended their ways as is the case in soaps. Then it was the turn of YouTube to see the last part of the French motorways, Google fracking to harvest geothermal energy for their…

The entire evening was spent viewing YouTube videos. More complete builds from cold countries and a documentary about the construction of three French motorways: l’Aquitaine which goes towards Bordeaux, Le Périphérique, the Paris version of M25 and the A40 to Switzerland. The documentary concentrated on the technical hurdles encountered during the construction process and the…

For my viewing pleasure there was The Tomorrow People which continued with more hammy acting and dodgy effects, even for the 1970s! It makes me wonder how this became cult viewing. I see that there have been remakes in the 90s and 2013. Admittedly, Dr Who, which still survives to this day, was pretty shaky…

Grantchester was an interesting exposé on several levels. Some airmen were apprehended racing their car around a gravel pit or similar. The local police arrived and carted the malfeasants off to the nick where it was eventually discovered one of them was not out cold drunk but dead. The detectives gradually uncovered the story after…

Joe 90 was big into espionage to help a musician agent escape from a country, presumably Russia judging by the accents, by taking his place mid-recital. This gave the pianist agent time to reach the border before anyone discovered it was Joe playing in his stead. There were some gigantic holes in the plot but…

The episode of Luther was eventful now that his longterm adversary and maybe part time lover, Alice Morgan, recently presumed dead, has returned. Alice has an agenda which does not quite coincide with Luther’s. He is coming to terms with her sudden reappearance which interrupted his grieving. Her return brings plenty of trouble for everyone……

Morse is out of Jail and Thursday has recovered from being shot through the lung. Morse wasn’t planning to go back to work but a particularly intriguing series of murders eventually changed his mind. I spent the remainder of the evening on YouTube watching mostly useful and interesting material. The Siblings had me up at…

The mornings start earlier and the evenings appear to be getting longer. Indeed, there is no room for dispute as this is the case. Just that the changes are becoming noticeable. Jack Frost finds himself back in the barracks with the other coppers having left the room above the curry house, to their great relief…

The day continued cold and miserable so I went under the waves with the next thrilling instalment of Vigil then to Shetland for some police work. We managed to get out of the door at 05:45 with just a little fine rain showing up in the light of my head torch. It was warmer than…