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A happy and safe Christmas to every one! I figured in times like these we all might need a bit of "magic" :-)
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I just wanted to share the playlist that Cavendish and I have created for this year’s Halloween! A Happy Halloween to everyone who celebrates! :-)

Bimo

The X-Files Theme (Main Title: Materia Primoris), The X-Files Theme, 03:21

Sunrise, Uriah Heep, The Magician’s Birthday, 04:20

Hide and Seek, The White Buffalo, Darkest Darks, Lightest Lights [Explicit] ( Read more... )

Quite hard to believe that another year has gone by without any proper entry from me, when I’m actually doing fine (considering there’s a global pandemic going on) and reading and waching stuff just as usual. Albeit with a slightly nostalgic, comforting twist to it.

First a complete Babylon 5 rewatch, now ST:DS9. Oh, and lots of Doctor Who, Eleventh ( Read more... )

Celebrating your 45th birthday at a time when the German federal state that you live in is also the federal state with the highest number of confirmed Covid-19 cases (1041 so far, and rising) is a pretty strange experience, I can tell you. Filled with a kind of decisions I wouldn’t have dreamed of a month ago.

Cavendish and I are, luckily, still ( Read more... )

Our annual Burns Night supper, six guests, so altogether a group of eight. This year, Cavendish and I came up with the following menu:
My Heart is in the Highlands

~Traditional: The Skye Boat Song~

1st course: Traditional Cullen Skink

~Toast to the Lassies: Afton Water by Robert Burns~

2nd course: Black and white pudding and pan-fried scallops with pea ( Read more... )

Which is really a shame, because just like I recently mentioned in a conversation with
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It seldom snows in north-western Rhineland, but the weather forecast says that it might, with the first flakes likely to fall around five o’clock this afternoon.

Current book: Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver.
Current shows: Only Star Trek: Discovery and A Series of Unfortunate Events, I’m afraid, since the latest seasons of other shows that I follow ( Read more... )

Anyone else watching The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix?

The show is a very smart, atmospherically intense reimagination of both the Robert Wise’s 1963 black and white genre classic The Haunting as well as the original Shirley Jackson novel ( Read more... )

Yeah, I know. But BimoDad and I have been watching the various Jurassic Park/ Jurassic World movies together ever since the first one came out back in 1993.Thus, no way we were going to miss this latest installment.

A few mostly spoiler-free observations:

• Pure popcorn entertainment and actually great fun, however offering very few surprises since ( Read more... )

After our old cocker spaniel Wesley had died in late November last year, Cavendish and I felt it was high time for a new fluffy housemate.


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