(And isn’t Holiday a great film? No, I don’t mean Summer Holiday with Cliff Richard; I’m talking Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and the world’s coolest toy giraffe.)
I go home ‘on holiday’ to Aberystwyth tomorrow later today. Well, not quite holiday yet, since I need to put in a couple of days at the National Library of Wales (fill in some skimmed-over research for work on the thesis-book), and visit my much-neglected office, if I can still make it up the hill without keeling over. And hope that just for once nobody does the ‘Dr Livingstone, I presume?’ line. Ha bloody ha.
But then I’m going to have a very idle, extended Bank Holiday weekend until at least Tuesday. I may put together pictures of documents for you if I feel like it. I shall, weather permitting, wander round the town with my new camera trying not to look too much like a bloody tourist. I might permit myself to buy a bottle of the devil’s drink (Plymouth gin). I’ll definitely go to the deli and buy naughty quantities of cheese, serrano ham, chorizo and olives. Inhale that sea air. Find something different to read at the secondhand bookshop. And visit the fab record shop with all the funk and ska records (Shall I buy that Trojan compilation I didn’t get last time? Hmm). Or the other fab record shop. Or both. (Better check bank balance first.) And watch several hours of Angel on tape.
Do not expect much blogging activity. Unless I feel like it.
4 comments on “Holiday time”
I love that flick! And Angel — bliss.
I haven’t yet watched Angel’s 3rd season but the second was a miss for me - too much DARLA! And Angel moped around. The first season was good. And what episodes I catch in syndication from season 4, I enjoy.
Too bad it is gone.
Well, what’s Angel supposed to do but mope? Isn’t that his job description? And if s2 had too much Darla, well at least there was plenty of Dru with her funniest-since-Dick-van-Dyke English accent. We’re well behind in the UK (unless you have Sky or cable); I think what I’m watching is season 4. They just had the bright idea of bringing back Angelus to help them with the latest big baddie. I finished at the point where they’d lost his soul, duh… Can’t wait to pick that one up. And soon there will be (heaven be praised) FAITH. Mmmm. Christ, those later episodes of Buffy 7 with both Spike and Faith on the screen. Did not know what to do with myself.
Technically, you are right that Angel has nothing to do but mope but in season 1 he was on a far better ass-kickin’ role. And Dru IS the funniest thing ever - i love when she makes her first appearance in Sunnydale with Spike. Classic lines.