Connections
It's finally cooled down a little after the excruciatingly tedious heat of July, so Dave and I are re-emerging from our enforced hibernation in front of a giant fan and starting to trail around London again. Last night we tried out the pub quiz at the Maid of Muswell public house in, er, Muswell Hill. In an amazing stroke of luck rather than than genius, our team won. I say luck because we only scored 33 out of 65 and the usual group of bearded Mensa- member TV-quiz-show professional-trivia-geeks who show up to these events, sit furtively in a corner and win by a country mile must have been on holiday (or at least in the queues to get through security at Heathrow in a bid to go on holiday).
Everything's pretty quiet in the capital at the moment. The gym is deserted. We only know this because our bathroom is currently out of action (long, expensive story) so we are forced to go and shower there in the mornings. Anyway, we were very pleased with ourselves but rather shocked to win, since we'd totally failed to know who wrote A Man For All Seasons, what the smallest breed of rhino is, who serves as Black Rod's deputy in Parliament, or anything about round-the-world yachtsmen, Michael Jackson number-one duets in 1987 or Peter Falk's acting career prior to Columbo.
One round was called Connections in which you had to say what linked a set of answers. In idle moments at work, I sit and wonder if DVD releases of older TV series and films are based on random themes. Obviously you get boxed sets you might expect, such as Anthony Trollope adaptations or Alan Bleasdale dramas. But for example, two series from different decades starring wooden and now late actor Maurice Colebourne (Gangsters, Howards' Way) were sent to us in the same week. As were series whose main characters were called Jean and Lionel (Brush Strokes, As Time Goes By). This week it's been films starring doctors from ER in much younger guises - Poison Ivy 1 and Hangin' With The Homeboys. Though the same two films are linked by the fact that both contain long discussions about the spermicide Nonoxynol-9. Hm.
REBECCA
Everything's pretty quiet in the capital at the moment. The gym is deserted. We only know this because our bathroom is currently out of action (long, expensive story) so we are forced to go and shower there in the mornings. Anyway, we were very pleased with ourselves but rather shocked to win, since we'd totally failed to know who wrote A Man For All Seasons, what the smallest breed of rhino is, who serves as Black Rod's deputy in Parliament, or anything about round-the-world yachtsmen, Michael Jackson number-one duets in 1987 or Peter Falk's acting career prior to Columbo.
One round was called Connections in which you had to say what linked a set of answers. In idle moments at work, I sit and wonder if DVD releases of older TV series and films are based on random themes. Obviously you get boxed sets you might expect, such as Anthony Trollope adaptations or Alan Bleasdale dramas. But for example, two series from different decades starring wooden and now late actor Maurice Colebourne (Gangsters, Howards' Way) were sent to us in the same week. As were series whose main characters were called Jean and Lionel (Brush Strokes, As Time Goes By). This week it's been films starring doctors from ER in much younger guises - Poison Ivy 1 and Hangin' With The Homeboys. Though the same two films are linked by the fact that both contain long discussions about the spermicide Nonoxynol-9. Hm.
REBECCA
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