just spent 20 minutes on the phone with our youngest in Berlin who today turned 32, oh my heart...
Marcus Kelson
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Retired journalist, at the ABC for three decades, madly in love with Virginia, 38 years married, swimmer and swim teacher, has reviewed film, music and more for 40 years off and on. No DMs on unless l know you.
other day V asked if I wanted to see Pride and Prejudice the Musical? I said no, and for heaven's sake, love her to death but she's made me watch them all, and I'll bloody die on this hill but none better than Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson, the end. ok.ru/video/415009...
Pride and Prejudice 1940 with Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, Maureen O'Sullivan, Ann Rutherford, Marsha Hunt and Edmund Gwenn
In the early 19th century in the English village of Meryton, the arrival of wealthy bachelors, most notably Mr. Darcy (Laurence Olivier), stirs up the families with single daughters. Among those is th...
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finished watching A Clockwork Orange, 1971 (HBO) not seen probably for twenty or thirty years, of all the horror movies and disturbing tales where personalities are stripped beyond recognition, torture porn, a host of other reasons, and disturbing aspects of the psyche, few films have come close.
scrolling through Tik Tok at stupid o'clock overnight and an ad for this film came up - I'm intrigued... www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FqC...
WICKER | Official Trailer | 2026 [HD]
YouTube video by Roadshow Films
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Pilates hell week, six down four to go - more than half way across the Rubicon 😝
have my third double pilates class of the week coming up soon, and because I was having a chat on here with a friend, going to take another look at Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (HBO) an essential part of which is Wendy Carlos' soundtrack - look her up, it is a fascinating story..
recently I have discovered multi-grain, hand made, sour dough bread which is available from one of our local coffee shops, Tinker Tailor, at Casey in Canberra, and I think I've become a bit of a convert.
this is what we do, no questions asked..
Lorna Suzuki@authorlsuzuki.bsky.social · yesterdayThank you to Mexico & Australia for sending your fire fighters to aid us when our closest physical ally threatens to fine or tariff Canada even as smoke from Washington & Oregon blow into BC. We send fire crews & our Super Soaker water bombers when the USA is on fire. TACO issues threats. Sad...
This is what Not A Normal Country looks like.
CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · 22h agoOh my god I think I found the video.
and in Australia we have the Phamaceutical Benefits Scheme.
LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸@namwella1961.bsky.social · 21h agoLA Times: Trump finds a new way to screw Medicare members — hiking their drug bills. Mehmet Oz is canceling the Part D Premium Stabilization Demonstration, potentially doubling monthly drug costs for 11 million seniors. I'm now one of those seniors! 😠 #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
“Trump has now passed from being a stubborn narcissist to a cocooned authoritarian, so isolated from the outside world, so imprisoned within his own sense of infallibility that he refuses to consider any arguments or information that conflicts with his beliefs.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump’s Irrationality Is Dangerous
The president’s recent rant is a sign of serious dysfunction in the Oval Office.
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Breaking: Pauline Hanson bans Costa, The Wiggles and Mr Squiggle from all future press conferences … but Miss Pat, Miss Pat..
Thought of the day: Put Alan Joyce and Alan Jones into a cannon and shoot both those fuckers into the sun so we never have to read about either of them ever again.
A good explainer on Trump’s unsustainable position over Iran… aje.news/s1bzrr
‘One last chance’: The times Trump threatened Iran, said deal imminent
US president has claimed Iran 'desperate' to do a deal or given Tehran 'last chance' on multiple occasions.
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you know I've almost got to the point of saying let America implode and we will pick up the pieces later, it is a young country (note its horrific its appalling treatment of Indigenous peoples) governed by idiots who don't read and have no grasp of history...and they voted for cunt number one.
Sarah Hanson-Young savages Sportsbet GM Jules Norton Selzer after he refuses to answer whether they've ever returned money to victims after it’s found to have been stolen. SHY “I have to take that as a No”💥 Is it because they thrive on criminal money? Shocking.
Scottish actor #BrianCox, best known for playing Logan Roy in HBO’s Succession, isn’t afraid to speak his mind. In an interview with TRT World’s Ghida Fakhry, Cox explained why he refuses to stay quiet despite concerns about Hollywood backlash......” #AllHeroesDontWearCapes 🇵🇸
well I just survived day two of reformer pilates hell week and here's a thing, having a chat to one of the ladies, who is tiny and in her 70's, who increases her resistence weights (springs) to double what is recommended - she'd put these 20 year old gym junkies to shame - amazing!
did I mention this yesterday, apologies if I'm repeating myself but new Colin from Accounts has dropped on Binge :)
The English Football Association now join a growing list of organisations and countries turning their backs on the FIFA President… www.theguardian.com/football/202...
More European countries’ FAs withdraw support for Infantino as pressure intensifies
The English FA and Serbia’s have followed Wales’s and Finland’s in dropping support for Gianni Infantino’s re-election bid as Fifa president
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This is what happens when American christians come here… vt.tiktok.com/ZS4fprDmh/
TikTok - Make Your Day
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