Back to life, back to reality! Lois and I home again after 5 days away, staying with our daughter Alison, who lives in Headley, Hampshire, with Ed and their 3 children.
And the pandemic is still on - yikes, will it never end haha !!!!!!!
We wake up in our own bed for the first time in 5 days or so. It feels surprisingly spacious, however, because we've got 6 extra inches of width, which is nice. The bed we slept in at our daughter Alison's house was a standard 4ft 6in bed, so now we've got a bit more to play with, and it seems like a lot. I can just about see Lois somewhere in the middle distance haha!
back to our old bed, which now seems so big...
..after the "small" bed we slept in at our daughter Alison's
And we've got to start cutting down on fattening food soon, but not yet! We'll wait till next year haha! And at the coffee stand I order a treacle tart from what's-her-name's country kitchen.
Lois orders some sort of cake. Later on she complains of an upset stomach, but there's not necessarily a connection. Poor Lois - let's hope it goes away soon.
But how did it happen that a lot of these places are now populated by the Turkics? Did they wait till the Indo-Europeans had left and then move in? I don't know, but I think we should be told, and C.Spear does just that, which is nice!
What fun it must have been in those far-off days. Everybody belonged to some "Proto" group or other, and there weren't many people about generally, so you could wander off wherever your fancy took you, with no passports to show anybody!
It's an incredibly long film, and takes 2 hours 35 minutes including adverts, and we think they've left out 75% of the original story and mixed up the 25% that they've kept - what madness!
I order a treacle tart from Margaret's Country Kitchen
16:00 We have a cup of Earl Grey tea on the couch and I look at my smartphone. I'm pleased to see that one of our favourite pundits on the quora forum website, C. Spear [crazy name, crazy guy!] has been weighing in on the vexed subject of "which countries were previously [populated by] Indo-Europeans [but aren't today]".
We hear a lot about the Indo-European homelands in the steppes of Central Asia, but who knows anything about the origins of non-Indo-Europeans? [I expect a lot of people do! - Ed]
The following map shows the homeland of the Indo-Europeans, and also the places they spread to in their so-called "early years", when they were starting to throw their weight about, as we all know:
The Turkic world as it looks today - all "faraway countries
of which we know nothing" [phrase copyright - Neville Chamberlain]
Well, the following map shows how the Turkics started out, quite an unassuming bunch of people, by all accounts - they were called the Proto-Turkics, and they had quite humble origins, which surprises me -
What a crazy world they lived in, in those far-off days !!!!!
18:00 Lois doesn't want to eat. She goes upstairs to lie down for a bit, so I rush into the kitchen and make one of my signature meals: slices of corn beef, heated-up ex-boiled potatoes, and defrosted and warmed-up ex-frozen mixed vegetables - yum yum!
19:30 Lois is feeling a bit better. I make her a round of toast and marmalade, with a cup of Rooibos tea. After that, she has the rest of the cherry and almond cake she bought at the coffee stand this morning.
We settle down on the couch to watch a film on the Talking Pictures TV channel, "The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders", which is loosely based on the 18th century Daniel Defoe novel.
In the book Moll goes to bed with dozens of men, and has several marriages, one of them (unintentionally) with her half-brother. Lois and I think from memory, that Moll went out to the colonies (Virginia) twice, and finishes up in Maryland on her biological mother's estate at the end of the story, but this is all confused in the film.
Plus, in the book, she gets pregnant several times but has all the children adopted, including the one she has with her half-brother. In the film, however, there are no pregnancies, and her love-life is pared down mostly to two men, Jemmy the gentlemanly highwayman, and "The Banker". What madness! [Don't say that again! - Ed]
For all that, Lois and I enjoy the 18th century ambience of the scenes. Moll meets "The Banker" on the stagecoach she takes to London. He's ostensibly reading a book of sermons, but Moll sees the real contents when she looks over his shoulder.
Moll's expensive (borrowed) dress soon gets "The Banker's" attention, something Moll quickly notices.
Moll looks over the Banker's shoulder to see that his
book of "Selected Sermons" is no such thing - oh dear!
yikes, it's going to be a long trip !
We enjoy the re-creation of the festive 18th century atmosphere in Ranelagh Gardens in London, where Jemmy takes Moll on their first "date": the crowds, the fireworks, the fire-eaters, the peep-shows etc.
Ranelagh Gardens, London, where Jemmy takes Moll
on their first "date": God save King George!
Any "coitus" in the film tends to be "interruptus", we notice, usually "interruptus" before it really starts, like this scene on the boat on the Thames that Jemmy pretends to Moll that he owns. Here, it's Jemmy's servant who plays the role of interrupter, when he jumps on board through a window in the side of the boat.
Oh dear - has that killed the mood, we wonder haha !!!
Then suddenly we realise why - this is the US version, a fact revealed by the American spelling in the subtitles. Lois says she read that the director had to make dozen of cuts to enable the film to be seen in the US.
What madness !!!! [That's it - you've said that once too often! Just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzzzzz!!!!
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