Average saturday

Thought I'd give you a flavour of an average (boring) Saturday, with nothing much happening.

Got up around 9am, had a lazy long breakfast watching TV, actually I was watching a recent purchase "Our man in Havana", great movie, I do like Alec Guinness, he was such a great actor. Also a convert to Catholicism. I must get hold of his autobiography sometime, I've heard some of it read by him on the radio, and it sounded very funny.

Actually I used to know a girl who went to the same Church as him and she told me that all the kids used to annoy him intensely by going up to him at the sign of peace and saying "the force be with you".

Anyway, back to my boring Saturday. After the film finished I realised that I had forgotten to set the bread-machine working and that I had no bread for lunch - so a quick trip to the shops to get something. Then set the bread-machine to work, put the washing on and settle down to lunch & some more Blog-browsing, didn't find much of interest (though it is quite addictive), so did some more Christmas cards and bills (yuk). The end of the year is quite an expensive time as lots of memberships are up for renewal, add to that my second attempt at sending my passport for renewal (I forgot to put it in with the application form - senior moment!)

Then one of my neighbours turned up with a parcel which the postman had left with him yesterday while I was at work. Excellent this is my monthly Amazon order (my one major extravagance), which this month contains the Michael Wood collection.

If you don't know, Michael Wood is a historian who has done several shows for the BBC and he is one of the best documentary presenters around. He is a great storyteller, and his shows don't rely on lame re-enactments or fancy graphics, it is usually just Michael Wood talking or travelling around meeting people - this sort of thing is what makes TV worthwhile.

I am currently watching "In search of the Trojan war", which is still fascinating, even after 20+ years. Anyway, that's my boring saturday out of the way.