The Mighty Kymm-Sweet as a Biscuit-3 September 2002

3 September

Just as I thought I would do, I spent the day in my pyjamas doing bugger all.

Hey, it's a three day weekend of raininess, what do you expect? I don't know why I was surprised, last year I commented that there is always a heat wave over Memorial Day weekend and a cold snap over Labor Day Weekend, sort of to get the seasons started off properly. I watched things on TiVo, I knitted like a motherfucker, and, at once point, I even took a bath, my second bath of the weekend. I won't list the products again, worry not, suffice it to say that I didn't use anything up.

The knitting was amazing this weekend, I really did a job on it. It has been most neglected over the past couple of months, I was so busy with the shows and so on, and then I was kind of out of the habit, and usually needed to write five or seven entries, so I felt that sitting in the chair and knitting was much less productive than sitting at the desk and writing.

I thin k I knat about three feet this weekend, possibly more, I suddenly looked at it and realized how much I'd done. That's one thing that I love about knitting, you can just do it without really thinking, then you look up and suddenly you have accomplished so much!

One of the shows I watched on TiVo was just glorious, it was on Mystery on PBS and it was called Inspector Lynley Mysteries: A Great Deliverance. I loved it so much! And, I was pleased to see, when I looked it up on IMDb, that they have already made four more that presumably Mystery will air in short order.

The cast is terrific, Sharon Small from Glasgow Kiss and a fellow named Nathaniel Parker as Lynley, who just about made my eyes drop out of my head and roll around on the floor, he was so good-looking. The characters were really interesting, the dynamic between them was really strong--he's a lord and she is lower class, and the department puts them together because they want them both to fail, and he gets to be filled with secret pain, which we all remember I find most attractive. Her character wasn't quite as interesting or fun to play, as she is mostly just prickly and standoffish, which doesn't so much endear you to the audience, and I rather wondered why Sharon Small took the role when it was clearly Lynley's show, until that scene at the end where she talks about her brother and immediately deepened and enriched her character to such an extent and now I cannot wait to see both of them again, not just him.

Have I mentioned that he's really super-cute?

Cynthia and Fran took advantage of the fact that I wasn't doing anything but sitting on my big wide ass all night, and went out while I stood guard over the children, protecting them with my life. You know, or sitting in the basement eating a Kudos bar, which is more or less the same thing.

I wanted to watch Yellow Submarine from Netflix, but my DVD player had taken an instant dislike to it and insisted that it was not actually inserted. So I decided to go upstairs and watch it there, since nobody was home. Besides, Cynthia always wants me to go up and say hello to the dog while they are gone, because she gets all sad and lonely, so that's two birds right there.

And boy, did that dog act peculiar! She kept climbing onto my lap and turning herself upside-down and squirming around. I told her that dogs don't sit like that, but she paid no attention and carried on with the lap-gymnastics.

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It's funny, I haven't seen the movie in quite some time, and I remembered loving it, but I did not remember the rather dull stretches! In fact, I was quite startled by them. And the extras just suck all out, there is an old "making of" thing that's rather fun, but no new documentaries, just some interviews that aren't put together, you have to click on each one separately, there is no context, and one stops just as it's getting interesting.

The guy who voiced the Chief Blue Meanie and Ringo mentions that one of the other actors was hauled away to prison during the recording and he had to take over the voice, "But you probably already know that." We don't! I cried at the screen, but to no avail.

All in all, definitely worth seeing again, but I'm glad that I didn't buy it. Good old Netflix.

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