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I’ve just started watching a Japanese series on Netflix called Asura. It is directed by one of Japan’s great directors, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and is about a family comprising aging parents and their four daughters, all of whom have taken very different paths in their lives. It is beautifully written, superbly acted (featuring some of Japan’s most noted actors), and the directing, as is to be expected with Kore-eda at the helm, is simply perfect! Please watch it… if you’ve had the good fortune to have watched Midnight Diner, then you will absolutely LOVE this series.

I hope that was a tongue in cheek comment (emoji’s are your friend), however, and just in case it wasn’t, you know what they say…’if you want something done properly, do it yourself.’

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No no no, keep working on it!! Practice makes perfect, besides which, the bar for perfection here, is set pretty low. Now, have at it!!

His films are so visceral… I feel clammy just watching them. Lighthouse is an amazing piece of art with a plot that is mind bending! Willem Dafoe is his usual brilliant self… he has become possibly my favourite actor now, if not for all time. And yeah, my health is not great, but in Nield speak, it is what it is. I go back into chemotherapy on the 29th, so I’m enjoying my current toxin free state as much as possible before they hook me up again 😁

Unfortunately, with my current state of health, I’m unable to get out to the cinema, but it is one film I will definitely be getting on Blu Ray the day it’s released… I’m a big fan of director Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Northmen and Lighthouse). I already have the original Friedrich Murnau 1922 release and the Werner Herzog versions of Nosferatu, so apart from the fact it is an Eggers film, as a completionist, I am compelled to add it to my collection!

Yes, you’re both correct… perhaps it was a game we were playing that could have secured us a place in the finals? Or perhaps I’ve just lost the plot, along with my memory. With regards to his height, I noticed that of the entire list back then, our two tallest, and only players above 187cm, were just 193cm. i wonder where all of the high 190’s and over 200’s, were hiding back then.

Yeah, mine were Tassie as well as Townsend and Stan Alves, and then along came Greg Parke, Max Walker, Greg Wells and Gary Hardeman; all favourites of mine from that post premiership era. I have a vague memory of Hardeman being knocked out early in a final (can’t recall who the culprit was), something that pretty much knocked us out of the running.

I cut him some slack, as it’s just the arrogance/confidence of youth; Beau Webster was the star for mine, but he has the benefit of being a seasoned mature age debutant, something that Konstas will eventually grow into, hopefully. Having said that, I kind of like Konstas’s attitude as the game needs characters. I also believe we are going to start seeing more and more of these guys who play with flare and abandon, as T20 is going to be the breeding ground for the future generations of test players (there no longer seems to be much interest in shield cricket)… I also think it might also see an end to five day tests, reducing them to four at most.

I once had an ale with the whale.

Same! (outranked even Brian Dixon who was our local hero, and was just up the North Croydon end of Dorset Rd, where I was growing up at the time)

Should be ok if he ducks.

I thought he was doing an ‘homage’ to Peter Allen.

Hey, nothing against AoB, but I thought my comment above was good enough to get the Bronze (based on the fact that Tim’s Silver resulted from a comment) 🤣