{"id":3074,"date":"2014-02-11T13:06:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T12:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2014-02-11T13:06:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T12:06:47","slug":"brilliant-coen-brothers-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=3074","title":{"rendered":"Another brilliant Coen Brothers film"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Outside The Shady Oak in Fernilee, near Buxton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A rather quiet few days for us, largely because the weather has been so wet and cold that we didn’t feel like doing much. Dot had a few appointments she had to keep, of course, but my excursions have been limited to accompanying her to the city on Saturday in\u00a0search of linseed oil \/ methylated spirits (it’s a violin thing), driving to church on Sunday and taking the car in for an MOT and service yesterday.<\/p>\n

We did start the week by going to the cinema (4 weeks out of 4) to see Inside Llewyn Davis<\/em>, the latest Coen Brothers film, which is brilliant. It’s set in the 60s pre-Dylan folk scene of Greenwich Village (mainly) \u2013 a Dylan lookandsoundalike appears at the end \u2013 and it’s about success and failure. The title character is a very good folk singer but has several flaws, mainly his propensity for making the wrong decision at every turn. Beautifully done and highly recommended.<\/p>\n

Have also read two good books \u2013 On the Steel Breeze<\/em> by Alastair Reynolds and A Season in the West<\/em> by Piers Paul Read. Reynolds has amazing ideas and writes beautifully well; and Read is just a first-rate novelist: his more recent The Misogynist<\/em> was stunning.<\/p>\n

I’ve also done some work on the family tree: I now have a death certificate for my great-great grandmother Sarah Lenton, who died in 1872. Have tried to find our her maiden name, but no definite success, though it may be Green. Meanwhile I’ve cleaned out a lot of files and have bought a shredder to deal with the sensitive papers. It was ordered on Saturday from Rymans and delivered yesterday.<\/p>\n

I had to lead the service on Sunday because Carrie was dealing with a very sad case of a guy who accidentally overdosed on anti-depressants. Dot mentioned my new book.<\/p>\n

I was fortunate yesterday when I took the car in for its service and MOT, because the rain cleared for almost precisely the time it took me to walk home (well over three miles). I called in at Barclays on Aylsham Road to pay in a cheque and then at the TSB in Magdalen Street to pay in church cheques. I toyed with going in to the city but felt too tired: I was exhausted when I got home \u2013 mainly, I think, because I had too much on. I was sweating quite lot. Felt much better later, when Dot drove me up to the garage to \u00a0ransom the car (just over \u00a3300).<\/p>\n

Miserable as the weather is, we’re very fortunate to live in an area not so hard hit by flooding. The south and south-west are inundated, and now that it’s reached the Thames Valley, even the BBC are taking it seriously. That was quite unfair. I retract it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A rather quiet few days for us, largely because the weather has been so wet and cold that we didn’t feel like doing much. Dot had a few appointments she had to keep, of course, but my excursions have been limited to accompanying her to the city on Saturday in\u00a0search of linseed oil \/ methylated … Continue reading Another brilliant Coen Brothers film<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1651,1008,1174,1885],"class_list":["post-3074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cinema","tag-floods","tag-rain","tag-shredder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3077,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions\/3077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}