{"id":589,"date":"2010-11-20T08:01:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T08:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=589"},"modified":"2010-11-20T08:01:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T08:01:10","slug":"peanuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"Peanuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today our helpful computer, via WikiHow, advised me that this is National Peanut Butter Month.\u00a0 What, may I ask, is the point <\/strong><\/span>of telling me that on the 20th?\u00a0 That’s 19 whole days down the drain!!!! <\/em> Admittedly for 7 of those I have been almost completely disinterested in food, but that is just so not the point.\u00a0 I would add the URL for the link to things you can do to celebrate this event\u00a0 but I’m in the huff now.<\/p>\n

Anyway, moving on, happy new house Sooz, bet the first thing Tony sets up is the computer.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 It seems to me that a franchise such as HP which earns huge chunks of wonga will attract a few sniffy and condescending reviews.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I do of course read up about it afterwards.<\/p>\n

For anyone living in Scotland, I can testify from my enforced marathon telly catchup session of late* that Downton Abbey<\/em> is jolly good fun to watch.\u00a0\u00a0 This was an ITV serial with Dame Maggie Smith, written by the recently enobled Julian Fellowes.\u00a0 STV could not afford to show it, so we had to watch 109 Ways with Root Vegetables or somesuch.\u00a0\u00a0 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.\u00a0\u00a0 She and Penelope Wilton must have laughed themselves sick.\u00a0 It’s coming back for a new series next year and the first series is probably still available on ITV Player.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, since Julian is now a peer, I hope he choses a better name than Kilwillie.<\/p>\n

*wasny well<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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