Sunday, May 21, 2006

Family news and crime drama

Well, we didn't go to Leeds yesterday. Our
daughter S. sent us a text message at 7am to
say she was unwell, and to ask us to postpone
our visit. So we sat around in the morning
feeling disappointed and at a loose end, and
we filled the time with finishing off the Radio
Times Crossword with the help of "oneacross
dot com" - a very good website, but it has
some limitations. By the way, the answer to
the police TV series clue is "A Touch of Frost"
- quite easy, if you like watching crime drama
and David Jason, as we do. We had a couple of
coffees while I had a go ordering a few books
on amazon dot com, including three photography
books for me, and a novel, "The Kite Runner"
by Khaled Hosseini, for Mrs C. We find the
reviews on amazon very helpful.

Later on we called round to see our third
daughter R., who lives on the other side of
town (in Bramcote) with her husband K. R. is
having her 20 week pregancy scan next week, so
we're all getting excited about that.

Incidentally, our second daughter L. is going
for IVF blastocyst implantation tomorrow. Two
out of a batch of 14 embyos will be chosen and
the rest will be frozen - we all feel rather
strange about that - the thought of potential
human beings queing up for future implantation,
or ending up being discarded. We're going down
to London next weekend to stay with her while
her partner is away. Here's some info about IVF
... L. and her partner are paying a bit more to
have the embryos developed to the 5-day blastocyst
stage, for a better chance of implantation. The
wait for IVF treatment at her local London
hospital is 2.5 years - she's on the waiting list
for NHS treatment too.

In the evening we watched the end of an episode
of "The Inspector Lynley Mysteries" that we'd
recorded last week. A somewhat feeble plot, a
murder mystery set on the Cornish coast, and
poor production I thought, almost like "Acorn
Antiques", an old TV comedy series.

Much better last week was "See No Evil: the
Moors Murders" - a dramatic reconstruction of
the murderous activites of Ian Brady and his
partner Myra Hindley, set in the 1960s. The
drama was mainly seen from the viewpoint of
Myra's sister Maureen and her husband Dave Smith.
Excellent writing, acting and production. We
were left feeling shocked and sickened by
programme - I could hardly speak afterwards.
We've driven through the moorland where the
murder victims were buried - it's a very bleak
and desolate place.

I'll end on a more cheerful note - a photo of
our great-nephew, M, who is five weeks old.
By the way, my photo-editing software is
playing up. When you click on the photo on
this blog to enlarge it, do you see a pop-up
menu asking if you'd like to download the photo,
together with a warning about potential viruses?
This happened to me with the clematis photo but
not with the previous photos. Weird.
(Added later: I think the problem with the Inspector
Lynley TV episode was the poor and improbable script,
that the actors and the production team had to work
with).

6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Your clematis pic opens normally, only the great-nephew pic opens to a download screen?...very odd...a setting in your photo software perhaps?.

9:33 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh, that is disappointing for
you both, nevertheless, hope
your daughter,s feeling
miles better!!


What a cutie pie baby, both
pics opened normally at my
end.


Some years ago I read about
those Moors Murders - unbe-
lievable what goes on in the
minds of some people.!

11:24 am  
Blogger steve said...

All your pictures open fine this end Justin.
Also I remember the Moors Murders very clearly as that is not that for from where I used to live up north.
the one what comes to mind most of all is the Yorkshire Ripper. I was born about a ten minute walk from his house and as a young boy delivered papers to that address, thankfully he was not in that house then.

12:36 pm  
Blogger Reluctant Nomad said...

I'm sorry I missed the Moors Murders drama. Did you watch the first episode of 'A Line of Beauty'? The book is excellent and the series looks as if it could be very good. I know that the producers and director want it to be viewed as a drama about the eighties more so than as a gay drama about the eighties.

Sounds as if there is baby fever in your family!

10:56 am  
Blogger justin said...

Thanks, everyone, for your comments. I'll see how the photo-editing software problem goes, as it might correct itself. If not, I'll remove the program and see what happens.
RN: Yes, we are following "The Line of Beauty" series. We both think that the black actor, Don Gilet, has a lovely face. It's a gorgeous, lavish production.

3:17 pm  
Blogger whatalotoffun said...

Well I hope everything for the best for the insemination my sister in law did it to but she had no luck she was so depressed and wanted a child badly. They conceived naturally and her little bundle of joy is about 7 weeks old now. that photo of the little boy its to quite.

11:39 am  

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