Today our helpful computer, via WikiHow, advised me that this is National Peanut Butter Month.  What, may I ask, is the point of telling me that on the 20th?  That’s 19 whole days down the drain!!!! Admittedly for 7 of those I have been almost completely disinterested in food, but that is just so not the point.  I would add the URL for the link to things you can do to celebrate this event  but I’m in the huff now.

Anyway, moving on, happy new house Sooz, bet the first thing Tony sets up is the computer.

Off to see Harry Potter VII Part I, which had better be good, can’t believe that I have seen six others but I must have.  Where the event has been hotly anticipated, by me at least, I do like to see a film early on before I accidentally read any adverse criticism.  It seems to me that a franchise such as HP which earns huge chunks of wonga will attract a few sniffy and condescending reviews.  Not every film has to be made in black and white on a budget of tuppence based on a Jean Cocteau novella with an atonal soundtrack and in a foreign language before it may be deemed to have intrinsic value.  As mentioned elsewhere on this website, I have seen enough films and theatrical events in my life to be able to make up my own mind about whether it’s a turkey or not.  I do of course read up about it afterwards.

For anyone living in Scotland, I can testify from my enforced marathon telly catchup session of late* that Downton Abbey is jolly good fun to watch.   This was an ITV serial with Dame Maggie Smith, written by the recently enobled Julian Fellowes.  STV could not afford to show it, so we had to watch 109 Ways with Root Vegetables or somesuch.   It doesn’t exactly resonate with metaphor or allegory and you can see where the plot is going, but there are some terrific moments; no-one delivers a putdown like Dame Maggie.   She and Penelope Wilton must have laughed themselves sick.  It’s coming back for a new series next year and the first series is probably still available on ITV Player.

Incidentally, since Julian is now a peer, I hope he choses a better name than Kilwillie.

*wasny well