This is not the Plummer you are looking for part 2
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This is not the Plummer you are looking for...
At work we have a fully fitted kitchen for staff to make drinks, use the microwave and fridges etc. It has two sinks and an instant boil tap. I love the instant boil tap. Every house should have one! We also have some taps for our sinks. They have been there since I have been there and they are used very heavily every day and so, at some point, they will fail. The tap failed last week. Fortunately facilities swung into action and put up an out of service sign and rang through to get it fixed. I can only assume they had tried to call, Christopher Plummer...oh dear.
Driving in my car
My son and I will often listen to music in the car. Previously he used to enjoy the AC/DC soundtrack to Ironman 2. His current listening pleasure is the soundtrack to the Guardians of the Galaxy films. These are performed by various artists, mainly from the 70s. I therefore find myself listening to music I used to hear on the Alan Freeman show on Radio 1 on a Sunday afternoon. He is particularly fond of sweet's, Band on the run. Pure 70s Glamrock. He loves it. He'll also gravitate towards Hooked on a feeling & Mr Blue Sky (This is the song on the opening credits). We will listen to all these songs in the car. But, the most appropriate one for being in a car is a song called, The Chain by Fleetwood Mac. It is suitable because this song become at some point the theme tune to Formula 1 racing. Joshua knows it as the formula 1 song. His other fact about Fleetwood Mac is that Mick Fleetwood is really tall. As we were driving through town we were listening to the chai
It's been a while
As I count via the calendar it has now reached the ninth month since I have had any alcohol. This is a most bizarre state of affairs. I have made no new years resolution, and, as far as I am aware I have had no warnings over my health either. Therefore, I have no idea why this has continued for so long. I commute a long distance so I have not had a drink during a weekdays for years now. Yet, I could quite happily have a drink on a weekend but I neither felt the need nor had the desire to make a dent into my whiskey or gin in the cupboard. Perhaps the scariest part is I am not sure when this phase will pass. I will keep the alcohol on the shelf for the time being, though.
And so, Vikings has finished.
After three months of fairly intense watching I have now finished all four seasons of 'Vikings'. It has been highly entertaining watching the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok and his family. Ragnar Lothbrok is an interesting character. He is ingrained in the very fabric of Nordic, but also English folklore. In the late 8th century raiders from Scandinavia began popping along the English coastline and they were pretty grim folk. One of these ancient kingdoms affected was Northumbria. In the 9th century it had a King called Aelle. In legend this king finally kills the Viking Ragnar by dropping him into a pit of snakes. This event kicked off in legend and reality a huge chain of events that still reverberate to this day. Ragnar Lothbrok's last words were. "How the little pigs would grunt if they knew how the old boar suffers" He had sons. He had quite a few sons. And one things Vikings liked was avenging. The death of Ragnar brought over from Scandinavia wh