Under the weather

Mr. Blind-Man: "I see clearly that this man is a heretic"--The Pilgrim's Progress

I was sick Saturday and worried that I'd got the COVID bug.  But now it looks like a false alarm.  I did get slowed down with my reading and writing this blog and such.  Once again, I've been eating huge pomelo grapefruit.

The week before last we rented a bin to get rid of the mud in our back yard. Lucky we shifted it to make room for the tip when we did, because soon after there was a cold snap and it froze so stiff that John had to loosen it with a jackhammer so we could move it!  But that turned out to be an advantage, because this way we could pick up big pieces and tote them at a faster rate than shovelling.  We filled the whole bin in one day, and a second one the day after.  Once again our timing was fortunate, as it snowed the day after.

So what have I been watching on Youtube lately?  The Lennon Sisters from The Lawrence Welk Show!  It started when someone in my music group was singing "You Belong to Me." (We were doing an online karaoke, in which I sang "Limbo Rock"). That's the song that Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters are singing in that guilty-pleasure movie The Jerk.  So I listened to it on Youtube, then the software brought up the Lennon Sisters version, and after I heard that it produced more of their songs.  I particularly liked their version of "Till the End of Time," Perry Como's first hit with a melody from Chopin's Heroic Polonaise.

I finished watching Dragon Ball Z.  I also finished the One Piece Ennies Lobby story:  some compelling episodes with the crew saying goodbye to their ship the Going Merry, and Ussop rejoining them.  Now I'm going to look at the movies and specials based on both shows.

My book club discussed The Pilgrim's Progress the other day, and our next book will be The Handmaid's Tale.  Last night I saw Peter Weir's The Year of Living Dangerously, for the third time, with the Watch Party in connection with Indonesia being the History Discussion Group's subject. (The week before we showed Peter O'Toole in Lord Jim.) It's food for thought that improves with repeated viewing, and Linda Hunt's gender-bending performance was ahead of its time, though she did win an Oscar.

I'm pleased that Jeremy Corbyn's started a "Peace and Justice Movement." (They should bring it to America!) Just the other day I read a Tweeter who said "I hope this is the last Tweet I write about Corbyn....  Why doesn't he just f**** off?" Methinks thou dost protest too much.  That Tweeter has since blocked me, like I care.  These days the Corbyn-haters are looking like sore winners!