Lockdown Binge Watching

[oldfart]

 

[oldfart]

Sorry, dropped a bollock there.

 

[ditzy 24//7]

The main vids i have been watching on youtube have been from caver Keith. great set to watch.

 

[pwhole]

Sorry, dropped a bollock there.

Not here you didn't - I wish I'd taken that one. Two of my favourite things in one shot

 

[mikem]

Think he's referring to posting the same picture twice, whilst rescaling it... (Can request mods to delete first image)

 

[Mrs Trellis]

For telephobes I recommend BBCRadio4's version of CJ Sansom's Lamentation - a historical thriller. It's broadcast in 15 minute segments at the end of Woman's Hour but you can listen online to all brodcast so far :-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m000rc4c

 

[pwhole]

There's always this - a slight update would include social media, but other than that, bang up to date  :halo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD9pJzZ1XGI&list=RDhD9pJzZ1XGI&start_radio=1

 

[tony from suffolk]

For telephobes I recommend BBCRadio4's version of CJ Sansom's Lamentation - a historical thriller. It's broadcast in 15 minute segments at the end of Woman's Hour but you can listen online to all brodcast so far :-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m000rc4c

The Shardlake series of books, of which Lamentation is one, are superb, I can't recommend them enough.

 

[Mrs Trellis]

For those not "in the know" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shardlake_series

 

[AR]

There's always this - a slight update would include social media, but other than that, bang up to date  :halo:

There's a blast from the past (remembering seeing them live in the lower refectory at Sheffield Uni nearly thirty years ago!) but yes, still all too relevant.
Thanks also to Mrs Trellis for the Shardlake recommendation, I'll have to look them out while I'm waiting for Patricia Finney to write the next of her Robert Carey series... https://www.patriciafinney.com/series/sir-robert-carey-series-by-p-f-chisholm/

 

[pwhole]

Hahah - I was at that Uni gig too - and saw them in their hometown San Francisco a year or two later - that was a long gig. Fabulous band.

 

[2xw]

I've been rewatching a lot of peep show and the American office (the British one is too much Ricky Gervais). The new star trek is a bit meh, not a prize winner but enjoyable. Been watching documentaries too, really recommend tales from Iraq on iplayer. I also watch a lot of gogglebox and stuff like 24hrs in A&E.
Podcasts have been keeping up with Americast (light American politics) and You're dead to me (light history/comedy, highly recommend! )


Unfortunately I've totally lost my desire to read for pleasure but been struggling through "Warrior: a life of war in Anglo saxon Britain" which is pretty self explanatory but is about a dead bloke buried near Bamburgh

 

[Mrs Trellis]

For a lighter - in both senses -  historical detective/murder mystery/thriller story try Paul C Doherty's medieval mysteries and other thrillers:-

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsnWTcCW4AEwcFE?format=png&name=small

The Brother Athelstan and the Corbett novels are full of accurate historical detail and colourful language even if the plots are slightly repetetive.

As you can see Doherty has many pen names.

 

[Mrs Trellis]

Oops - careless copying and pasting. Here's the P C Doherty Wiki page:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_C._Doherty

 

[David Rose]

This is Us - a superb, five season family drama on Amazon Prime.

The White Tiger - brilliant new film on Netflix. The dark side of India's boom.

If you haven't seen them, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul (to be watched in that order) are just about the greatest TV ever made, and on Netflix. Intense, existentialist crime drama.

Mad Men (Netflix) is pretty damn good.

Fauda - Netflix - gripping Middle East drama.

Seven Seconds - Netflix - racist US cops and BLM before BLM was a thing. 

Like others who have posted, I like The Queen's Gambit, too.

 

[Wardy]

After a short deliberation since they were released (!) and having not got round to the books either, lockdown has provided so much dead time I am watching the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings trilogies.
I was warned not to watch them in a single sitting, but having started in December and only just half way through now there was no chance of that - what an epic.

If this pandemic drags on though I am worried I may start considering the Star Wars films, but god I hope things don't get that bad.

My question to others and maybe it should be a separate thread is - What is Covid really guilty of -What have you done during lockdown that you would ever have imagined yourself stooping to in "Normal" times?

 

[pwhole]

Babestation  :halo:

 

[2xw]

Babestation  :halo:

Ah yes I hear they haven't got the Internet in meersbrook yet

 

[pwhole]

I have a wood-burning wi-fi router arriving tomorrow.

 

[Mrs Trellis]

I have a wood-burning wi-fi router arriving tomorrow.

Can I have your wind-powered one?