Scripwriters Faux Pas

Go has started showing the "Bewitched" series from
the beginning and last night's epiosode (about third
or fourth)dealt with the idea that Sam came up with
suggestions for one of Darren's campaigns, he
instantly thought because they sounded good to him,
they were the result of magic. He implies that Sam
is lying when she denies that she used magic, as a
result she packs her bags and goes home to mother.

Towards the end of the series, when Adam is about
three years old they have the exact same story line
except this time she makes him sleep on the couch.
I can't believe that the writers were that hard up
that they had to recycle stories! but it is worse
to think that they could not remember even writing
the story in the first place.

Interesting to note that the first two episodes
had a narrator whom I believe was Jose Ferrier.

Fly Away Home

The Ritz

Meg decided that the top pub was not "good enough'
to take Uncle Bill out for his birthday. So she
said "Let's go to The Ritz, in Traralgon," which
really is only a cafe with pretensions of grandeur.

I ordered a half nip of vodka and was charged $6.50,
which is the price anywhere else for a full nip! So
either they got it wrong or they overcharge! Either
way it is a mistake.

I must admit the duck was cooked well and tasted
wonderful and was not too dear at $26.95, as I know
The Italian Club would charge at least another $10!
It cost about the same as The Traralgon R.S.L.
would charge.

There was a twenty first birthday party at the next
table and I suggested we sing "Happy Birthday" to
Uncle Bill but he didn't want that, though he claims
it has been the best Birthday ever as it lasted two
weeks! but then you don't turn 70 every day of the
week.

Lisa finally turned up in time for dessert, as she
had gone to Melbourne to play tennis for the Saturday
and it ran late. So she was not in any of the photos,
which of course nobody thought about till now!

Lots of photos with me, Cliff, the kids, and Uncle Bill.

A good night was had by all. Especially as Meg and
Donald went on to a club till the early hours of the
morning which in a way annoyed me as Donald cried
poor and asked me to pay his $206 rates for him this
week as he did not have the money yet was able to
spend $180 on alcohol!!!!

Uncle Bill Arrives.

Uncle Bill arrrived last Friday, 19th November, at
lunch time. Hewent and picked up Meg from work and
we all had lunch together at Claudia's.

After Meg went back to work, he and i dropped in to
say a quick Hi to cliff and then it wa off to see
Sarah.

Angela had come to visit Sarah after the lunch hour
she had worked at The Australian Italian Club.

So we all had a coffee and chatted so that Uncle Bill
could catch up on what was happening with them.

Only two days previous Sarah had asked Paul to leave.

She does not know how permanant that will be. A bit
hard seeing that she is living in his mother's house
for very little rent. He was telling all their friend
that he no longer cared for her because she put on
too much weight after the baby was born. Which only
goes to show how immature and shallow he is. As I
said to Sarah, yes looks attract us to a person but
then after dating them we come to like/love them for
who they are on the inside and that does not change
just because of a few kilos.

From there he went to check into the motel in Traralgon
and I went home to do some work, no sleep for the wicked.

"Too Many Murders"

"Second Time Lucky" by Sophie King.

Jane Bidder is this author's real name. So no
relation to Stephen King, in fact this author
is British but the book does not suffer because
of this.

This is a light hearted entertaining read, with a
few laughs at no extra cost.

A woman's real version of "My Best Friend's
Wedding."

I read this in one sitting over the weekend.

Meg Is Home Sick

Meg couldn't sleep Wednesday night as she was
coughing so much. so she went to the doctor
and he took a swab and the results will be
back Monday, but he thinks she has Whooping
Cough. She went to work and the big boss sent
her home as there is a pregnant girl and he
didn't want to risk being sued!

Thankfully the washing machine had come back
Thursady morning so Meg caught up with her
washing on thursday afternoon.

She watched some of her programs that I had
recorded over the weeks for her on Friday but
by friday evening was 'sick' of being cooped
up!

Cassie had rung Meg on Friday morning and Meg
had told her she was 'ill', but Cassie didn't
mind and invited her over to spend a girls
night in with her, catching up on the gossip.

She rested Saturday and on Sunday went and cut
the grass on her block. I said that while she
was cutting grass she could do the front nature
strip of this house and the front lawn but of
cause it did not get done.

She went to see the Doctor after lunch on Monday
and the results showed she DID NOT have Whooping
Cought but just a throat infection, so she went
immediately back to work.

I think I would have waited till Tuesday as the
Doctor had given her the whole of Monday off.
I think she was just so bored, which is sad that
an active woman of 33 can't amuse herself for
a few days.

"How To Be Good" Nick Hornby

All I can say is that I could not find one thing I
enjoyed about this book. It was dull and deary.
How it can claim to be a number one best seller
is beyond me.

I guess it sold well because of his previous books.

My final commemt is that it was a pity that trees
were wasted in making this book.

"Stand By Me"

A short story written by Stephen King, turned
into a movie.

The narrator, who is a writer Gordie, is played
by Richard Dreyfus, which was immediately known
by his distinct voice.

He is telling us about the Labour Day weekend
when he was 12 years old and what he and his
three mates got up to.

I knew right away that Will Wheaton played the
young Gordie, he is of course best known for his
role in Star Trek.

Corey Felman played Teddy, I don't think I have even
heard of him before.

Gordie's best mate was Chris, a solid kid (not fat)
but made for scrapping. So I was astonished to find
that the boy playing this part was River Phoenix,
but even more amazed to find that the last of the
four, Vern, a fat stupid kid was played by Jerry
O'Connell, whom I think has got hotter as the years
have passed.

John Cusack played Denny, Gordie's older brother,
who was killed in a car accident.

Kefier Sutherland played the leader of the local bad
boys, who were the bane of Gordie and his friends.

A coming of age story that really made one weep.

"Wog Boy 2" "The King Of Myonos"

This was a terribly confusing film. Perhaps the
makers forgot what the story line was in the first
film.

Firstly at the end of "Wog Boy" Steve's friend Frank
gets married to the ditzy 'O'Brien' girl. Yet at the
beginning of this film he is single again and has
lost his mojoe with women. What happened to his
wife???

At the beginning of "Wog Boy" Steve's parents are
seen together on the boat travelling to Australia.
Yet in the second film, we are told that his father
came out first. He left behind not a wife but a
girlfriend and she ended up marrying her ex boyfriend's
brother. Then her ex sends for her and she goes to
Australia to be with him, but she is already pregnant
with Steve. So the man he thought was his father was
in fact his uncle and the man he thought was his uncle
was his father. That was why the uncle left Steve a
beach worth several million dollars in his will!

Althought there is ten years between films surely they
could have spent the time to watch the first film
again so they did not muck up the story line like
they have. Or have most people also forgotten the first
film and therefore the makers thought they were 'safe.'

Meg and Kath Visit Titanic

They left it till the last week end and thus found
that they had little choice as far as souvenirs
went.

Starange but True

Read Colin Dexter's "The Daughter of Cain" over
the last week. Apparently it is one of only
472 books. Why such a short run who knows.

But there were a number of mistakes. Ignoring
the spelling errors, which were numerous, e.g
'uf'instead of 'if', and once a 'of' instead
of a 'if.'

There were two large errors. The first there
was suppose to be a sketch of a knife. There
was room for the sketch but the space was BLANK!!
Secondly there was to be a sketch of handle of a
knife were there was writing on one side and once
again the space was empty.

Also in a space that was showing the opening of
a museum it said "12 a.m. to 4 p.m." then it said
as it was after noon there was a crowd of school
children waiting to enter. So it really should
have been 12 p.m.!

Even the story wasn't that great. Just a OK read.

Melbourne Cup 2010

Well the turn out wasn't that great. Sue and Allen
didn't come. Neither did Lena and her boyfriend.
Karen and Chris and the kids went to his mother's.
I had hoped that they might drop off MY grandchildren
as they are no relationship to his mum and their
father was at the Bar be Que. Cliff's friend from the
bank and her partner didn't come. Richard and his
mother as well as Beryl turned up just before the
cup and only stayed an hour.

So I did no sweeps.

In fact it was the worse race day all year for my
bets. Out of the ten races 4 of my horses were
scratched and out of the other six, I only had one
second place!

Don Jr did quite well he had 1st 2nd and 3rd in
the cup BUT NOT AS A TRIFECTA!

Cliff would not tell me how he did so he either
did extremely well or extremely bad.