Tea Hee

I Had Better Come Clean

Conrad does not normally identify where he works, although anyone who also works there will immediately recognise it from my photographs, and there's only so many organisations on the upper floors of The Dark Tower.  Your Humble Scribe is also very very careful about not posting anything derogatory about my employer, which is easier to do if you, gentle reader, have no idea whom they are.  Seriously, large organisations have people who trawl social media looking for blasphemers and heretics and I personally know two people who were sacked for being naughty on teh Interwebz.

     First, a photograph.  Art!

Quarterly tea run successful!

     15% discount this weekend, if you have a Sainsbury's discount card, which I do, as I work for Sainsbury's HR.  There you go, my secret is out.  ANYWAY I was rather worried as to whether I'd be able to buy all the Loose Leaf Darjeeling Tea on the shelves, due to supply chain problems.  I knew they had 7 packs of 4 packets each (Stock App downloaded last year at Christmas) which comes to 28 packets and here I am taking a quarter of them.  Trading Assistant at the checkout thankfully confirmed there's no limit.  Phew!  Sainsbo is the only place you can get LLDT at a reasonable price, should you be interested in the champagne of teas.

     There you are, shortest Intro for a long while.

An Evening Of Interest

An ice-cream van?  In this weather?  ANYWAY last night there was a knock at The Mansion's front door and Hey Pesto! there stood two policemen.  They explained they'd been tasked with entering <real address redacted> to search for a couple of missing people, and could they look around?

Their sinister HQ

     They repeatedly apologised for disturbing us - the fools!  can't they see that this is excellent material for blog content! - and peered in cupboards, behind curtains and under the bed - where they found a lot of shoes, dust and a few dead spiders.  They even checked out the loft, which involves getting an extended ladder and perching precariously upon it.  Conrad ID'd himself with his passport, which was happily to hand

     They didn't find either of the missing persons and so decamped to search other premises with the same number and road name.  We shall dine out on this one.

O Delicious Schadenfreude!

Or, more proof that Conrad is a terrible person.  You may recall that I relished the slow yet inexorable decline in viewers for CW's terrible "Batwoman" series, for information on which I checked HeelsVsBabyface.  Poor Az, having to endure every single second for our education and enlightenment.

     ANYWAY that's not the schadenfreude I'm talking about.  Art!

     Bear in mind that this series began with 1.8 million viewers, and they're down to a quarter of that in the premier episode of the third season - which tends to have the highest viewing figures of a season.  I think towards the end of season two they were hitting 450,000 viewers.  How does this show continue to be made?

     But wait!  Stay your departure!  Because there's O So Much More.  You see, Ruby Rose, the - er - actress who played BW in it's first season and who jumped ship with two episodes left to film, has only recently been giving her account of the behind-the-scenes and on-set drama that she experienced.  As The Critical Drinker and I both surmised, her Non-Disclosure Agreement has expired.

Doug Ray Scott

     She also slandered DRS, saying that he hated being in the show and had his agent try and get him released from it.  No dice.  So, alleges RR, he became an utter bottomhole on set.

     DRS is not taking this lightly and is suing RR for $10,000,000 so she had better have cast-iron evidence.  Given that she allegedly behaved like a diva herself, one has to wonder, one has to wonder.  As TCD remarks, all this excitement is a couple of quantum levels beyond the show itself.

     We shall come back to this one, O yes indeed.

Struck By Lightning

Shortly.  Your Humble Scribe never consumes alcohol before 18:00.  Art!

     You know Conrad.  Ever on the lookout for a beer he can crack a pun about, and it struck my impish sense of humour to purchase a beer named after summer in the autumn.  Things got stranger when I read the back label.  Art!

"Named after the hilarious novel by P.G. Wodehouse"

     You what?  Hang on, I've not read it, let teh Interwebz educate me on this matter - Aha, set in the Blandings Castle milieu.  Galahad is about to publish his scandalous memoirs, which will hideously embarrass many of the great and good, who were wild rip-roaring youths along with Galahad.  Not sure where the beer comes in, so I may have to purchase it to study it comprehensively.  O what a chore, reading Plum for study purposes*.

    Gosh, I'm glad I did my constitutional into Oldham earlier and didn't put it off till now, as it's walloping down out there.  In fact I'm pretty sure I saw a fish ...

     Hmmmm we only need a short article to hit the Compositional Ton.  Should I roll on Roel?  O go on, we can at least start an item.

Roel Takes On Stanley Kubrick

He watches "Spartacus", to be precise.  Art!

     The Roman legions in the background a probably a matte, but those in the middle distance are real.  Ol' Roel admits that it's not entirely clear if the Romans did or didn't fight in this checkerboard formation, so he gives Stan a pass.  Art!

Nope

     Hmmm nope.  Roel opines that this enormous amorphous mob is far too large and deep to serve any useful purpose and if there were any leaders with military experience, they'd have them in a formation, even if only a very shaky one.  Giant Mob Attacks on Roman formations usually ended disastrously badly for those doing the attacking for a whole host of reasons**.

Finally -

Just to let you know that I'm 80 pages into "Reclaiming History", which, together with the 40 page Introduction, means I've hit 8%.  Only 92% to go.  We're getting there, slowly yes, but still getting there!

*  First world problems, hmmm?

**  Nope.  Figure them out yourself.