I did something to the knuckle of my thumb while moving that I was whinging about earlier in the week to Prince Valiant, who informed me that no, he didn't think I could have broken my knuckle without noticing. "But it hurts," I whined. "It hurt just now when I switched off the lamp. No, not there," as he gave it an experimental poke. "And not there either. No, it's when I straighten it again from being bent." The Prince told me he was sure it would get better. He seems to have missed the bit in the marriage vows about sympathy for hypochondriacs.
I went to our new local video store for the first time on the weekend, and had a happy time browsing through a wide selection of TV series while enjoying the sight of the "$2 weekly" stickers that were generously slapped over most of the stock. I ended up picking up the first discs of Rome and Foyle's War, which we've been enjoying. Rome is good fun, despite being a very soap-opera-ish version of Roman history. Then again, Roman history (in my muddled view) is sort of soap-opera-ish. All those feuding families. And nudity! I am back to referring to the Rome DVD rather than history. I'm sure history has lots of nudity in it, them armless statues and so on. But Rome was the first time I'd seen a sex scene with groin-to-groin nudity going on. I bet they cut that out when they screened it on commercial TV here. And I hope Polly Walker (who plays Attia, and spends a reasonable amount of her time naked) negotiated a nice big pay cheque for her efforts.
We've only watched a bit of Foyle's War - it is set in staid 40s England, with Foyle, the lead character, being a policeman who's going to be detecting things (he hasn't done any detecting so far, but I'm sure he's going to start soon). I'm not expecting any nudity from this one, but I might be wrong. As the episode we're watching is called The Dead German Woman, I am watching the only German woman character with trepidation, waiting for her to be killed. She just rode off on a horse alone, despite me telling her not to. At least it's not going to be an unpleasant surprise, given the title.
I went to our new local video store for the first time on the weekend, and had a happy time browsing through a wide selection of TV series while enjoying the sight of the "$2 weekly" stickers that were generously slapped over most of the stock. I ended up picking up the first discs of Rome and Foyle's War, which we've been enjoying. Rome is good fun, despite being a very soap-opera-ish version of Roman history. Then again, Roman history (in my muddled view) is sort of soap-opera-ish. All those feuding families. And nudity! I am back to referring to the Rome DVD rather than history. I'm sure history has lots of nudity in it, them armless statues and so on. But Rome was the first time I'd seen a sex scene with groin-to-groin nudity going on. I bet they cut that out when they screened it on commercial TV here. And I hope Polly Walker (who plays Attia, and spends a reasonable amount of her time naked) negotiated a nice big pay cheque for her efforts.
We've only watched a bit of Foyle's War - it is set in staid 40s England, with Foyle, the lead character, being a policeman who's going to be detecting things (he hasn't done any detecting so far, but I'm sure he's going to start soon). I'm not expecting any nudity from this one, but I might be wrong. As the episode we're watching is called The Dead German Woman, I am watching the only German woman character with trepidation, waiting for her to be killed. She just rode off on a horse alone, despite me telling her not to. At least it's not going to be an unpleasant surprise, given the title.
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When I was taking college Latin, I joked with my study partner (now my husband) that we were learning so much about Rome's most disfunctional families.
It is all very dramatic history, isn't it PF? Have you seen the Rome series? It's over the top, but I'm really enjoying it.
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