It is the Green eyed monster

I have never actually sat through Othello .......I have never read it, or studied it at school either....and so I thought I had better tick the box so to speak and see the bloody play before I enter my dotage.
The National Theatre's production was set in a modern day army camp and starred Adrian Lester as the troubled moor and the darling Rory Kinnear as The badass Iago.........
The acting by the leads was at times electric, but I must admit the whole thing was just a tad too long for me.........
When Othello finally totally flips and corners Desdemona on her Ikea bed.....I found myself thinking
" Come on!!!!!!!! come on!!!! get on with it............smother the bitch"
Message to self
Stick to zombies

13

On the mantelpiece , there is a vase of flowers. They are an anniversary gift from Chris. We have now been together for thirteen years.
Thirteen years.
It has just shot by
Chris, like many blogger spouses, is a somewhat shadowy figure in Going Gently. Readers hear about him in passing so to speak, but specifics and details are not generally forthcoming......he remains comfortably " in the wings" out of all this Internet " lark" and it is a fact he is grateful for.

Thirteen years!
He's a lucky sod!

Two I Forgot

Photo Bomb....

 I love photo bombing ....these are a few of my favourites......you will have to look long and hard at the final photo to work that one out!

Bake Off

Howard, crying when Ali was kicked out

Well by the end of The Great British Bake Off . I knew the contestant that would be kicked out would be one of the last two men in the show. Would it be Sheffield nice guy Howard ?( who sports a natty collection of designer shirts and has a sense of humour as dry as a nun's chuff) or would it be smiley nice guy Glenn? ( the sweet old queen teacher who obviously eats all of his own baking)
It was a shame as both guys are pure gold .
Hollywood take note..... If a movie audience takes to a film cast as easily and as well as the tv audience has with the bake off contestants then you would have a sure fire movie hit on your hands.

As the women jostled each other for the top places,allegiances have changed somewhat. Grandmother  Christine, the wisecracking Welsh gal Becca and the mousy but now much more likeable Francis have all gone up a gear,  and are snapping at sulky Ruby ( oh for fuck's sake STOP all that self depreciating shit at the judges' table Ruby) and smug Kimberley' s heels.
In the end Glenn cried over his disastrous buns, so we just knew poor Howard was out, which was a huge shame, as the Yorkshireman should indeed have his own tv show.
I love this programme
You wouldn't guess would you?

Glen flipping his panettone 

With all of this cake thing ,going on

I am doing kind of ok at weightwatchers

Been going two weeks

Lost half a stone

(7 lbs)

Probation

Two weeks probation are nearly up

I think she's staying

My Friend Tom Gowans

My good friend Tom at 

http://hippo-on-the-lawn.blogspot.co.uk/

Lives a rural Angolan life of adventure and excitement

Today I suspect he has been bitten by a snake

And still he's dealing with the problem, with a slug of whisky

, a band aid and with an old fashioned 

" spirit that won the war"

John Wayne is alive and very much kicking ( albeit with only one foot)

In Africa

And today I got all excited over a wool hat x

The Hat! ( photo bombed)

There's always someone here to steal your limelight 

The Still House lady who looks like a typical farmer's wife

Called yesterday with my hat, she knitted from the Sylvia and Irene's wool

And a very stylish and warm hat it is too

I paraded myself around the house in it as Chris arrived back from Church

And he looked me up and down saying somewhat dryly

" You look like a medieval serf"

" I think the hat is mighty fine" I said somewhat hurt by his comment

" I' m not talking about the hat" he added " that's impressive!

......I was talking about your general appearance "

Hey ho