Misfits Mid-Life Crisis Adventures in East London.

HAPPY CRIMBUM

Week 340 Saturday 19^th until Friday 25^thDecember 2020.

Happy Crimbum wherever you are in the world.

This blog, week 340 is the last one of 2020.  Since March because of working from home, I haven’t had a huge amount to say as you may know from reading this shiz, but have still produced something for you to read weekly.  I’m not competitive, except with this ramble because I always hope that I can beat the previous year’s stats.  Early this week I needed 206 views to beat 2019s total of 2536.  Afterwards I posted a couple S.O.S messages asking if anyone had a couple of minutes spare to help massage my fragile ego, could they have a look and came to the rescue of the stat.  At the time of writing this small unimportant blog has had 2646 views during 2020, that’s 110 above last year’s total (A huge special thanks must be given to the lovely Eileen Rowson for all her help).  The final total will be announced in next week’s ramble, the first of 2021.

Thank you to everyone for reading this badly worded, grammatically incorrect mess.  Everyone has far more important things to be doing (especially these days) so the fact that you have looked at this does make me feel it’s worthwhile.   I have been thinking that from January I might reduce the frequency from weekly to twice monthly.  My worry is that the lists at the end would be even longer than they already are.  Unless I just publish the lists, at least that’s content I wouldn’t don’t need to think or stress about.  Decisions will be made over the next couple of weeks.

I have always said that the reason this blog exists is so that my beautiful niece and 3 handsome nephews will one day be able to read about what there mad old aunty got up to while they were young.  Until they are old enough to have a look, I hope you my audience will continue to enjoy what I have to say.

I really hope that you had a good Crimbum in these difficult times, and I do wish you a happy new year.

And Finally……

Speaking to Leo a 10 year old fellow geek/nerd (his words) from Harare, who was visiting Tofo in Mozambique.  Such a lovely surprise to get a call from my friend Jenny, who thought Leo should speak to a very old geek.

Cut my friends hair.  Ok, it was more of a trim, I but I took the responsibility very seriously. 

“The tips quite veiny”, my friend said this as she opened a packet of blue stilton.  I did of course snigger like a naughty schoolchild at the back of the class.

 My Mid Life Crisis Conts……

This week I have mainly been watching:  

“Animal Park”, (TX: 23/12/20).  “Anne Of Windy Poplars”, (1940).  “BBC Sports Personality Of The Year 2020 – Captain Sir Tom Moore Segment Only”, (TX: 20/12/20).  “Blankety Blank: 2020 Crimbum Special”, (TX: 25/12/20).  “Blythe Sprit”, (1945).  “Crazyhead”, (S1, ep 1),  “Crimbum At The (Snow) Globe”, (The Globe Website)(TX: 21/12/20).  “Click”, (19/11/20).  “Educating Rita”, (1983).  “Farscape”, (S2, ep 21 to ep 22).  “Fringe”, (S2, ep 7 to ep 9).  Ghost: The Ghost Of Crimbum”, (TX: 23/12/20).  “Hanna”, (s2, ep 5).  “His Dark Materials”, (S2, ep 7).  “King Gary: Crimbum Special”, (TX: 23/12/20).  “Lexx”, (S2, ep5).  Martin’s Corner”, (TX: 24/12/20).  ““Motherland”, (23/12/20).  “Mrs Browns Boys: Crimbum Special – 2020”, (ep 1, TX: 25/12/20).  “One Foot In The Grave: The Wisdom Of The Witch”, (TX: 25/12/95).  “Pointless Celebrities”, (S14, ep 1, TX: 23/12/20).  “Some Like It Hot”, (1959).  “Star Trek”, (S1, ep 4 & 5).  “Star Trek: Discovery”, (S3, ep 11).  “Star Trek The Motion Picture: Vintage”, (FaceBook)(TX: 20/12/20).  “The Box Of Delights”, (S1, ep 1 to ep 6).  “The Dead Room”, (2018).  “The Great British Bake Off: The Winners”, (ep 2, TX: 235/12/20).  The Great Crimbum Bake Off”, (TX: 24/12/20).  “The Greatest Title Sequence I’ve Ever Seen”, (YouTube)(TX: 21/12/20).  “The Farthest”, (2017).  “The Frighteners”, (1996).  “The Lost Ghost Story With Mark Gatiss”, (TX: 25/12/20).  “The Show That Goes Wrong: The Nativity”, (TX: 22/12/20).  “The Vicar Of Dibley”, (S1, ep 3).  “The Vicar Of Dibley In Lockdown”, (S1, ep 3, TX: 21/12/20).  “Upstart Crow – Crimbum Lockdown 1603”, (TX: 21/12/20).  “Waterhole: Africa’s Animal Oasis”, (S1, ep 3, TX: 18/12/20).  “What We Did On Our Holiday”, (2014).  “Worzel Gummidge: Saucy Nancy”, (TX: 24/12/20).                                     

Doctor Who Watched This Week:

“The Keys Of Marinus”, (Prod Code E)(ep 1, “The Sea Of Death”, TX: 11/04/64)(ep 2, “The Velvet Web”, TX: 18/04/64).

Gerry Anderson Watched This Week:

“Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons”, (S1, ep 20, TX: 16/02/68).

“Space 1999”, (S2, ep 2, TX: 11/09/76).

 “UFO”, (S1, ep 21, TX: 15/05/71).

This week I have mainly been listening to:  

“A Legitimate Salvage (The Expanse)”, (ep 4, 02/09/19).  “An Audio Guide To Babylon 5”, (S1, ep 3, 14/06/14)(ep 4, 29/06/14).  “Betamax Video Club”, (ep 10, 31/01/18)(ep 78, 01/10/20)(ep 84, 19/12/20).  “Coronavirus Global Daily Update”, (BBC World Service) (19/12/20) (20/12/20)(21/12/20) (22/12/20)(23/12/20) (24/12/20).  “CNN, Coronavirus: Fact Vs Fiction”, (ep 207, 19/12/20)(ep 208, 21/12/20)(ep 209, 22/12/20).  “Daddy Look At Me”, (S4, ep 7, 24/12/20).  “Dear Joan And Jericha (Julia Davis And Vicki Pepperdine)”, (S3, ep 6, 22/12/20).  “Doctor Who”, (TeeVee)”, (S8, ep 7, 05/10/14)(ep 8, 12/10/20).  “Doug And Elly Watch Telly”, (ep 18, 22/12/20).  “Game Of Thrones”, (TeeVee)”, (S4, ep 4, 28/045/140)(ep 5, 05/05/14).  “Game Of Thrones: Rewind”, (TeeVee)”, (S1, ep 4, 26/08/18).  “Griefcast”, (ep 126, 23/12/20).  “Grounded With Louis Theroux”, (BBC Radio 4)(S2, ep 4, 21/12/20).  “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Buddha”, (S1, ep 16, 23/12/20).  “Mystery Hour”, (21/12/20).  “NASA: Gravity Assist”, (18/12/20)(22/12/20).  “Nick Abbot (Whole Show)”, (19/12/20)(20/12/20) (24/12/20) (25/12/20).  “Relatively”, (Trailer, 09/12/20)(ep 1, 22/12/20).  “Rob Beckett And Josh Widdecombe’s Lockdown Parenting Hell”, (S1, ep 69, 23/12/20)(ep 70, 25/12/20).  “Soundtracking With Edith Bowman”, (ep 224, 12/12/20)(ep 225, 18/12/20)(ep 226, 25/12/20.  “Star Trek Discovery”, (TeeVee)”, (S1, ep 5, 16/10/17) (ep 6, 23/10/17).  “The Adam Buxton Podcast”, (ep 145, 25/12/20).  “The Froth”, (S2, ep 10, 22/12/20).  “The Nick Abbot Habit”, (21/12/20).  “Toby Hadoke’s Happy Times And Places – The Evil Of The Daleks”, (5.1, 21/12/20)(5.2, 23/12/20).  “Tody Hadoke’s Happy Times And Places: Too Much Information”, (1.1, 24/12/20).  “Verbal Diorama”, (ep 5, 22/04/19)(ep 6, 06/05/19)(ep 49, 02/07/20)(ep 74, 24/12/20).  “What’s The Problem? With Nick Abbot And Carol McGiffen”, (S1, ep 48, 21/12/20).  “Wolf And Owl”, (S1, Pilot #1, 23/12/20).  “Morrissey”,  “Blue Oyster Cult”, “Boney M”,  “WIngs”,  “Band Aid (1984)”,  “East 17”,  “The Darkness”, “Journey”,  “Dubstar”,  “Arcade Fire”,  “The Prentenders”,  “David Byrne”,  “Nirvana”,  “Greg Lake”, “Roxette”,  “Erasure”,  “Gabrielle”,  “Aztec Camera”,  “John and Yoko / Plastic Ono Band With The Harlem Community Choir”,  “Seasick Steve”,  “Kate Bush”.