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Outpourings / Re: Winter
« Last post by Diane CBPFC on Yesterday at 03:20:14 PM »
Zesty, my sister, who is 85 and therefore has earned the right to do what she likes, watches between 2 and 3 of those Hallmark movies every day in the run up to Christmas. LOL

I think I watched one this year, but as it had a well known actress, it may not have been one but same formulated plot.

I have now watched SEVEN new to me Christmas movies this year. I actually saw one worth recommending last night: FX's A Christmas Carol. It was like you have never watched another version before - almost three hours long mind.

Usually watch Die Hard - this time we watched it very early and I have a list of 3 must watches every year and a few optionals. I thought it would be interesting to see some never before watched this year but not having a high success rate of great ones lol 
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Outpourings / Re: Winter
« Last post by Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on December 18, 2025, 11:04:39 PM »
Christmas has never been the same for me since they stopped the annual ritual screening of the festive classic that is 'The Great Escape', starring Steve McQueen, Gordon Jackson and the late, great Angus Lennie.

Nothing like Nazis and prisoner of war camps to get you in the mood for a yuletide log.
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Outpourings / Re: Winter
« Last post by ZestyWhite on December 18, 2025, 09:55:11 PM »
Congratulations on the new grandadaughter Roger. Great news. Hoping Lil gets home to enjoy some of the collective family joy.

Diane, my wife has been watching many Christmas films this season, but sadly most of them are from Netflix. As a consequence, they have the same repeated plot (successful but lonely young woman who works in the city, reluctantly returns to her hometown for Christmas and falls in love with a handyman who wears a checked shirt and hands out hot chocolate at the Yuletide market) often the same cast (none of whom have ever been in anything that IMBD would rate higher than a four out of ten), and are generally less engaging than watching the constituent moisture evaporate from a patch of Dulux vinyl silk.

Give me Die Hard any day.
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Outpourings / Re: Winter
« Last post by Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on December 18, 2025, 12:14:47 PM »
Ah, yes - I remember it we-ell... She had a perforated hairstyle.

Congratulations all round on the arrival of little Norah, Roger - wonderful news! Both you and Peepsie now have twice as many granddaughters as me, though mine is a 10-year-old force of nature unrivalled by her brother and my other two (male) grandchildren put together. How these small bundles of energy can simultaneously keep you young, yet exhausted far beyond your years is one of life's greatest paradoxes.

Delighted to hear Diamond Lil may be home for Christmas. Fingers crossed!

And wot Peepsie sed re United and Celtic. Enjoyed watching that one.
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Outpourings / Re: Winter
« Last post by Roger Kettle on December 18, 2025, 09:27:35 AM »
Thanks, Peeps!
There was indeed a cartoon character called Nancy. It was an American strip and appeared in The Topper around 50 years ago when I worked for it. God, I'm old!
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Outpourings / Re: Winter
« Last post by The Peepmaster on December 17, 2025, 10:15:58 PM »
Quote from: Roger Kettle on December 16, 2025, 10:25:19 AM
That's an impressive snowfall, Diane! No sign of the white stuff here in Scotland yet but it would be nice to get at least a dusting of it over Christmas.
With everything that's been going on, it's been difficult for me to get into the festive spirit. My sister, Diamond Lil, is still in hospital with her broken hip but, fingers crossed, she may get home early next week. On the other side of the emotional scale, my son and his partner welcomed a little girl into the world last week. My second granddaughter---a gorgeous wee thing called Norah. I'm so happy for them.
It will be a quiet Christmas for us with only four adults and my first granddaughter at the table. She is now three and a half and already excited about what's to come. Quiet but nice.
Okay, I'll wish you all festive greetings nearer the time. Meanwhile, I'll get the mulled wine out and watch "It's a Wonderful Life" in an attempt to get into the spirit....

Congratulations on the new arrival, Roger. You have the same number of granddaughters as me now.

Congratulations too on the win against Celtic. I think you caught them at just the right time.

The Celtic manager is called Nancy. I seem to remember a cartoon character of that name from my childhood...
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Outpourings / Re: Winter
« Last post by Diane CBPFC on December 16, 2025, 03:24:19 PM »
Congratulations Roger. I love the name Norah - old-timey yet powerful. 

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Outpourings / Re: Winter
« Last post by Roger Kettle on December 16, 2025, 10:25:19 AM »
That's an impressive snowfall, Diane! No sign of the white stuff here in Scotland yet but it would be nice to get at least a dusting of it over Christmas.
With everything that's been going on, it's been difficult for me to get into the festive spirit. My sister, Diamond Lil, is still in hospital with her broken hip but, fingers crossed, she may get home early next week. On the other side of the emotional scale, my son and his partner welcomed a little girl into the world last week. My second granddaughter---a gorgeous wee thing called Norah. I'm so happy for them.
It will be a quiet Christmas for us with only four adults and my first granddaughter at the table. She is now three and a half and already excited about what's to come. Quiet but nice.
Okay, I'll wish you all festive greetings nearer the time. Meanwhile, I'll get the mulled wine out and watch "It's a Wonderful Life" in an attempt to get into the spirit....
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Outpourings / Winter
« Last post by Diane CBPFC on December 15, 2025, 05:35:57 PM »
We have had a good dump of snow this year, after the years of drought this is the best Christmas present we could wish for. Well that and a hot bean bag for my poor back from shoveling snow.

We have already watched 4 Christmas movies, new and new to me, this year. All of them with corny plots and Christmas magic and isn't that really what the season is all about?

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Outpourings / Re: TBR pile?
« Last post by Diane CBPFC on November 29, 2025, 05:54:59 PM »
Autobiographies read by the authors are the best. I enjoyed the first half of Patrick Stewart's book for instance. I have never followed a podcast, I did watch those three ladies do a Derry Girls review but it was visual on YouTube so not really a pod cast. So glad you love Slow Horses too Tarqs. I can't get anyone in my family to like the show at all which I can't understand LOL

I had a go at the quiz - very hard - I got 7 right but would only have bet money on one of my answers.

Thanks for asking Zesty - I asked the question because I would really like to find another series that I could really get into. I thought Beau Peep fans may have some leads.

I read quite a mix of authors. New to me this year is Louise Penny with her inspector Gamache of Three Pines, Quebec; M.C. Beaton’s Hamish MacBeth of Scotland, and Elizabeth George’s Inspector Lynley. These have all been from the library and unusual for me is that I have not cared that I have not been reading any of them in print order.

The Mick Herron series is hard to beat. 

I just looked, Philip Kerr does not have a big presence in our Alberta online library so it would be a case of buying the books. But they do look interesting.

I am reading the Thomas King Thumps DreadfulWater series in order and was on book 5 (out of 8) when I made this post – lots of funny bits and places named in southern Alberta that I know. My son is buying me the last two books in the series for Christmas. But then right after I started this thread – the shit hit the fan – at 82 years old, the author Thomas King discovered that he is not in fact part Cherokee at all and boy were the critics hard on him, the Edmonton Opera even pulled a version of his Indians on Vacation they had planned for this season.  So instead of being lost in the story as I usually am, I ended up the book feeling sorry for the author who says he feels ripped in two. 
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