Author: Chris

I finally got to bed after midnight having toured the camping and looked at the entrance camera long enough. The five families didn’t show and I received no call from them but that’s hardly surprising as they booked through Georgia and only called me once. I finally heard the alarm and got up to take…

Perry Mason and his team solved a complicated murder. As usual, everything was revealed in court at the end. I grazed YouTube for the remainder of the evening before retiring to my boudoir. Maya was trying to convince me it was time to get up and go for a walk at 03:00. I persuaded her…

Another night in court, not with Perry Mason but Judge John Deed. He was dealing with a fragile youth accused of murdering a young girl. He’d effectively been set up to take the fall. Deed was contacted by his policeman friend to look into corruption involving the legal profession including a couple of judges. His…

An evening in Yorkshire with the constables trying to discover who is systematically casing and robbing houses for things of value. An American flogging contraband bourbon and leather jackets. The pub finding ways to save itself after a rent rise and the lord of the manor discharging staff and flogging the family silver. What more…

Thursday and Morse struggled with two sets of murders which they thought were connected. Thursday lost it with the perpetrator to one, who conveniently confessed after. There was a tiger, an indolent, dysfunctional titled family and a guy who seemed to have a South African accent. The tiger, which was supposed to have been put…

It’s becoming difficult for the team of officers dealing with the murder in Unforgotten. It seems that all of the suspects have an alibi, no motive or are dead. I’m sure they will get their man in the end. I went to bed quite early as it was windy and I was nearly falling asleep.…

It was a busy evening with a visit to an off-grid sheep shack built to a high standard with reused materials, than a trip on the canals with a day in the life of the coal boat. This is a pair of old working boats from the 1930’s restored to fine operating condition complete with…

Frost was on the warpath at a campus where a student was pushed down some stairs. This was secondary to the death of an Asian woman murdered for £85 after a raid on their sub-post office and confectionary business. Two well known local lads were in the frame but proving it was the problem. The…

Spooks were all at sea on a hijacked container ship heading towards UK as a ruse to cover the main objective which was to blow up the Houses Of Parliament. Now, where have I heard that one before? I then watched a Tiny House construction video where a couple were building their house in the…

John Deed was struggling against all comers to get a just outcome for the family of a young girl raped and then murdered, supposedly by the driver of a foreign dignitary from a rich Arab state. The UK Government has a vested interest to obtain a valuable aeronautics order so behind-the-scenes activities attempted to ensure…

For a change, I didn’t go with BritBox but to the USA for some time with Detective Bosch whose daughter is temping at another police station providing helpful information for an ongoing investigation. After Bosch, I went back to YouTube where I looked at Magic Roundabouts of the automotive kind, a guy and his dog…

Lewis and Hathaway were on the case of a clairvoyant murdered in his office followed by his assistant. It’s a two-part story so I may watch the other part this evening. I watched a series of short items on YouTube but fell asleep as I could see from my history. I would have liked to…

An exciting evening saving the world with Joe 90 after a visit to Slade prison where the theme was boxing. YouTube entertained me for the rest of the evening with some motorway anomalies and a trip to Fort William from Euston. I have travelled from Euston to Inverness and beyond back in the Ice Age…

Hercule was in Syria solving the complicated murder of an unpleasant American woman. Her family were queuing up to dispose of her so it was just a question of finding the perpetrator. It was a cooler night which caused me to reach for an extra blanket but the morning was clear, starry and moonlit. I…

I wanted to watch the SAS Rogue Heroes but discovered I’d seen the last of the first season. Keeping with the war theme I watched an enlightening dramatisation of the story of the first African negro to get a commission in the British Army. He was an NCO but recommended for officer training in 1917.…

The Crash Detectives were investigating an incident where two vehicles collided head-on, one on the wrong side of the road. The detectives discovered, by various means, that the driver of the offending vehicle had been drinking and taking drugs for three days prior to the event and was still twice the legal amount to drive…

Hetty Wainthropp was on her own as a wandering artist investigating poison pen letters which seemed to go to newcomers to the village as well as those born there. She eventually found the culprit, the former village bobby who’d taken it upon himself to keep the populous under control. YouTube until I fell asleep! I…

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…