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I wish they'd shut up
Feb. 20th, 2011 04:35 pmIt is a hot sunny still summer day here. Metservice says it is 22 degrees C - I thought it was warmer, but I guess not. The cicadas are a wall of inescapable sound that almost drowns out the DVD I'm watching, and I am currently lying on the floor in the lounge on the theory that it's cooler...
We did an Amazon order recently and part of mine was a complete collection of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers DVDs. I am currently watching The Barklays of Broadway (which I had not previously been able to find) and it's in colour - I wasn't expecting that. Seems odd to watch them in colour.
Although one thing I notice about watching some of these older movies is that I'm much more aware of who the actor is, rather than the name of the character they're playing. Possibly it's because the characters are much more of a type, possibly it's because I haven't seen enough recent movies with the same actor in them to be as aware if people are being typecast and be more aware of the name than the character.
I will barbeque for dinner: pork steaks marinaded in a bit of basil pesto; corn on the cob; a salad of some sort; and something else, but I'm not sure what.
EDIT: Dinner ended up being the aforesaid pork steaks marinaded in basil pesto; a green leaf salad with yellow capsicum, corn sliced from the cob, potato, kumara and onion roasted with sweet smoked paprika and cumin and pesto and oil dressing, corn on the cob grilled on the barbeque; and a bit of sliced boiled potato also burninated. Dessert was the lemon curd and gingernut souffle that I've made a few times.
The cicadas have not yet stopped.
We did an Amazon order recently and part of mine was a complete collection of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers DVDs. I am currently watching The Barklays of Broadway (which I had not previously been able to find) and it's in colour - I wasn't expecting that. Seems odd to watch them in colour.
Although one thing I notice about watching some of these older movies is that I'm much more aware of who the actor is, rather than the name of the character they're playing. Possibly it's because the characters are much more of a type, possibly it's because I haven't seen enough recent movies with the same actor in them to be as aware if people are being typecast and be more aware of the name than the character.
I will barbeque for dinner: pork steaks marinaded in a bit of basil pesto; corn on the cob; a salad of some sort; and something else, but I'm not sure what.
EDIT: Dinner ended up being the aforesaid pork steaks marinaded in basil pesto; a green leaf salad with yellow capsicum, corn sliced from the cob, potato, kumara and onion roasted with sweet smoked paprika and cumin and pesto and oil dressing, corn on the cob grilled on the barbeque; and a bit of sliced boiled potato also burninated. Dessert was the lemon curd and gingernut souffle that I've made a few times.
The cicadas have not yet stopped.
