Blog Day 27: Sunday 18 April 2020 (Orthodox Easter Sunday)

First up, to the lady riding the push bike on the footpath that forced my self and the family in front of me off the footpath - no matter what you think and say, you are not allowed to ride your bike on the footpath, so there.  I doubt that she will see this, but it gets it off my chest.  Part of my therapy.

Great night on telly last night.  At 7.30 the ABC had one of my favourites "Death in Paradise", although the plots and solutions are getting a bit far fetched it is still good entertainment.  I particularly like the current detective.  I can't think of the actor's name but he was Father Dougal in the great Irish television series "Father Ted", also one of my all time favourites.

After "Death in Paradise" SBS revisited one of the great classic movies of all time, "The Blues Brothers".  I don't know how many times I have seen this but I love it and enjoy it more and more every time I see it. The music is fantastic and there are some great car chases and some classic lines.  I wonder if there has been a movie made that destroyed more cars, or appeared to destroy more cars.

And then to finish up the night SBS had another episode in the Ken Burns series on country music.  Great music accompanied by interviews with well known and not so well known players in the country music industry over the years. The last part of this episode was a very emotional tribute to Johnny Cash.  Well worth watching if you get the chance.

Last night's dinner was Uber delivered Chinese take away and tonight's dinner will be left over Chinese take away. Always better second time around I reckon.

Julian Burnside from Liberty Victoria is trying to put conditions on the use of the tracking app that that the government is proposing using.  Isn't that a surprise. Funny I don't remember voting for Julian Burnside or putting Liberty Victoria in charge of anything.


Current Virus Stats Day 104

Vic: 1,328 infected (+9 from previous day) - 15 deaths (increase 1)
Aus: 6,605 infected (+52 from previous day) - 71 deaths (increase 4)
Recovered: 4,124 (Australian Newspaper)
World: 2,328,124


Comments

  1. Lyn19 April 2020 at 14:03

    Love Death in Paradise and it is Ardal O'Hanlon. I've indulged in a bit of culture this morning and watched the stage play of "Phantom of the Opera" and waiting for next weekends stream of another Andrew Lloyd Weber play. Someone in the family has to have a bit of culture.

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    1. Graeme19 April 2020 at 15:24

      As a family we were always big on the two 'K's, both Kouth and Kulture.

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  2. Lee_O21 April 2020 at 18:06

    Ardal O'Hanlon?

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