Binge watching

After doing my final video upload of the week, on time, a lie-in plus pancakes for breakfast as usual on a Saturday. While I was saying Morning Prayer afterwards, Ashley rang and we talked for over an hour. The weather wasn't great first thing, it was only just above freezing all day. I wrote for a while, and lunchtime just crept up on me. A walk down to Tesco's following a post lunch doze, to buy another bottle of brandy for Clare's herbal de-coction, then a brisk walk around the park in the hour or so, by which time it was dry and there were few clouds, so sunset was spectacularly beautiful, with the sky morphing from yellow to orange then pink, as it got dark, just after four o'clock now.

Clare and I watched another episode of 'The Announcer' together before supper. Then watched the full length of German crimmie on Channel 4 Walter Presents catch-up, having watched the second half last night and being unable to link the characters and the plot properly. It made sense a second time around. The first episode is set on the East German coastal island of Usedom near the Polish border town of Szczecin. It's not even in the Nordsee, but rather in the Baltic. Usedom is in the mouth of the West Oder river estuary. It has a complex topography with wetland nature reserves and gorgeous beaches. It's a seven hour ferry journey from there to Ystad in Sweden which is where the Wallander novels and crime movies are set. That's about as Nordic as it gets it seems to me. Why a series set in East Germany is called Nordic Murders is still a mystery. Then a couple of episodes of the Icelandic 'Valhalla Murders' serial. I thought they were to be the final ones, but it seems there  are two more to come.

That's rather a lot of telly for one day, but with the longest night approaching, fifteen hours of darkness, with only the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn to look out for at twilight if it's not cloudy, there's no much else to do but binge watch. And it's mainly foreign movies. It's a small way to travel, with the eyes and the mind, if not the rest of me.