Right, upped sticks and moved the movie logging over to Letterboxd. A social network for movie people – type thing. Heard about it from Thunder Road’s Jim Cummings. Takes seconds to log, so much quicker than keeping it all here.
Find me here: https://letterboxd.com/jamesspratt/ or here as an rss feed: https://letterboxd.com/jamesspratt/rss/
An unintentional epic. Bought some inflatable kayaks recently, and planned to use them this Saturday just gone for a leisurely trip along the Thames. Leaving a bit after 1pm, Bourne End to to Runnymede. Expected maybe a 3 hour jaunt. All good until we got to the bit where they closed the river to fix a bridge over the M4. Headed inland to work around the issue then couldn’t find where to get back on so we find ourselves walking cross country with these kayaks on our shoulders. Ended up joining the Jubilee River instead with a view to then join back up with the Thames further downstream. Then with a whole series of weirs and locks taking us off the river again, we ended up walking through Eton to rejoin the river via one of the college boat houses. Now time was getting on a bit but didn’t get back to the car (which we’d preparked up at the destination) until dark o’clock – and the car park was locked up. Uberred back to the other car at the start (where the house keys were in) and got home about 11pm something. Sheesh.
[The 5 hours that Strava states below is 5 hours paddling. this doesn’t count the c.4hours overland].
Check out some of these river views and mansions though:
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I started these reviews on Twitter in September 2019. Then came over here from the start of the year. I feel the need to change from stars to percentage. Just makes more sense, e.g. a 4 star could be 61-80%. That 20 percent is a wide range. In the same way, I’ve always thought academic grades should be given as a percentage. e.g. Getting an A, B, C/ 1st, 2:1, 2:2 etc. in your exams doesn’t do enough justice when there’s a wide range within each classification. Will have to go back now and convert all I’ve done to date. Be interesting to see how I judge them a little while later anyway.
I drew something last week.
And credit to Owen Delaney who I follow on Twitter. His amazing personalised race maps made me do it.
Bombed down the Wales Friday night just gone, stayed in Merthyr. Wow, now that is a very special place. Really friendly people though, bloke in a bar (we took the weekend off DryJan) called VNU insisted he bought us a drink. Then he got ejected for fighting. And everyone hates the English, all good bants, mainly about the rugby but due to the area being the heartlands of their old mining industry, even Thatcher got a mention.
Drove up the road to the Storey Arms at the foot of the hills and made out ascent. About a 2.5hr round trip taking in Corn Du and Pen-y-Fan (we were later corrected that it’s pronounced Penivan). Excellent to get amongst it once again.
Then over to Aberdare for a Bowie tribute band that evening where we were well looked after by the locals there too.
Love love love that part of the world. Love Wales. Love the Welsh. Boyo.
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