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It's a nice sunny day and we were after a day trip. Decided to give Chester a go. I like looking at city walls and I figured

flickums would enjoy a day out; maybe a look at the castle. Alas the castle was never to be, but we had a nice time.

Not sure where to go so I chose to set satnav for the zoo. We were considering visiting there after all. Turned out to be a smart choice because there was a park and ride next to the zoo, and I really didn't relish the idea of driving in a city that was built about 1800 years before cars existed. Satnav took us right into the city, along some mostly pedestrianised roads. I approve of these shared use areas. Allows buses, cuts down on traffic, and gives a lot more space to pedestrians, especially old cities that otherwise would have very little pavement space.

Flickums was tempted by the charity shop district, because flickums is always tempted by charity shops. Picked up a couple of books and DVDs. I still have a morbid curiosity about how bad Mills and Boon books can be but I resisted the urge to buy one. However, I also have a morbid curiosity about the Power Rangers movie (the old one) so I ended up buying that. Flick picked up a piece of WW2 chick-lit and some Dusk Till Dawn DVDs.

So having completed this task, we actually had a look at the city.

No. First we went to the pub. It was lunch time after all.

Then we went to explore. Fortunately they don't charge admission to the walls. It's just a regular pedestrian walkway, connecting to various shops along the route. Curious how they built this city since the ground level inside the walls is a lot higher than outside. Did the Romans have the capacity to do that level of landscaping? Even centuries later it seems like a lot of effort for manual labour.

Further along we found the river. There are tour boats so we jumped on one. "Lady Diana" named after her because she was also the Countess of Chester. There was a running commentary of recorded facts, none of which I remember. Nice boat ride though.

After that we decided to seek out the castle. Walked round and found the Military Museum, which is next to the castle. We asked for directions and were directed back the way we came. Couldn't find the way in, because it turns out there isn't one. It's only open on special occasions. Wish the parking attendant had mentioned that.

It was hot and feet were tired so decided to stop in the first place that sold drinks we found. A nice pub. All the pubs here are very nice. A little touristy perhaps but what would you expect? Considered going to the zoo, but it's extremely expensive. 30 quid each!

So we had a look at a couple of other places - the Amphitheatre and anything else that looked interesting and headed home. Shame not to see the castle or zoo but had a nice day anyway.

Was inexplicably stopped by a Highways Officer car when entering a motorway. No idea why.

Wrapping up the day with meats, cheeses and Wallace and Gromit.

We're both fans of "The Goes Wrong Show". And really enjoyed "The Play That Goes Wrong". And "Magic Goes Wrong". So when the Magic Goes Wrong spin-off "The Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle" came to the Lowry in Manchester we had to go along.

We started off in one ofthe trendy restaurants in Salford Quays. The Botanist. Flick wanted to buy me chocolatey cocktails, and the food looked nice. Indeed it was nice. I had a pork hanging kebab. Flick went for the steak, ale and stilton pie. Yum!

We were actually a bit late booking seats, but this is the Lowry, a nice modern theatre build in 2000. There's a decent view from nearly all the seats, and decent sized seats, so even in our seats up near the rafters we didn't miss anything.

The start of the show is the same as Magic Goes Wrong. The Mind Mangler tells us about his enhanced senses, how he can taste names and smell the jobs people do. Of course the tricks don't actually work. But there are a bunch of other tricks, some actually work. A lot of it is clearly improv. Some of it more obviously staged, especially his stooge - wearing a T-shirt that says "Audience member" so we know he's just a randomly picked audience member.

The stooge is played by Jonathan Sayer (Dennis in the Goes Wrong Show), and I really like him. He's actually from Ashton so was playing to the home crowd. Never all that clear whether he actually took audience shoutouts or just made something up though.

Anyway, then we needed to escape. As did everyone else who was in the audience. This meant queuing for the ticket machine, queuing for the exit, and then queuing to get out. Where directions from satnav were misleading and we had to rejoin the queue. Also people seemed to have a habit of waiting for the lights to change against them before crossing the road.

Still, it was a enjoyable evening at the theatre! And it's really nice seeing two of the original mischief members on stage!

So, part of wedding planning is what to do about last names.

To me it seems kind of old fashioned and a bit sexist for the wife to take the husband's name.

flickums seems seems to care a lotless about this. I think part of my problem is that "Sluman" isn't a pretty name. "Sl..." is not the best constonant cluster to start, starting words like slither, slime, slag and the like.

I could take Flick's name. But that belongs to her previous husband and would like to get rid of that.

A third option is to come up with an entirely new name and both change.

We could both revert to Flick's previous name - Keane.

We could combine the names. Sleane? Keaman?

Perhaps steal a name from a celebrity of fictional character we like. We both like The Man With Two Brains, and "Hfuhruhurr" is a simple, easy to spell option. And then there's "Bucket", which everyone knows is pronounced "bou-kei". The other good one is Frankenstein (pronounced "Fronk-en-steen")

Or come up with something off the shelf - we could choose "Featherstonhaugh" (pronounced "Fan-shaw") or Fanshaw (and insist it's prnounced "Feather Stone Haig".)

But if we're going for that, why not be even more creaive. "Dragonmaster" or "McAwesome" or something. Or we could change our entire names and go for something like "Princess Conseula Banana Hammock". Or maybe "Scarlett O'Hara" and "Rhett Butler"! I thik the name Scarlett would suit me.

I was looking forward to my evening plans. It was all looking quite simple.

flickums would go see a gig with a friend. I would have the whole evening to myself to catch up with movies Flickums doesn't like.

Unfortunately there was snow. Not in Manchester but elsewhere.

Friend was planning to catch a train from the frozen wastes of Sheffield, that would get her in Manchester for about 15:30. But it was cancelled. It turns out all the trains were cancelled until about 17:30. Well, this meant getting to Manchester Piccadilly at about 18:30. Which gives more than enough time to catch the show. But this would require some faf to find somewhere to stow luggage. So I offered to drive Flickums to the station, and then I could take the bag home. Meant sacrificing some of my evening but I'd still have time for a movie. Train was running late but figured there would be time.

The pain who decided to do a u-turn in a car that didn't have the turning circle to do a u-turn, and the inconsiderate taxi driver who felt that the gap I'd left so cars could leave the car park was meant for him to go in front of me were fairly typical, but there was still plenty of time for getting to Manchester Arena, as long as the train wasn't too late.

But the snow.

Obviously a 50 tonne train can't handle a snowflake, so the train in front of friend's train broke down.

Friend's train finally arrived 70 minutes late with a somewhat flustered friend. I collected the bag and went to car park. And waited for a gap in the queue to leave the car park, so I could actually go home. And waited, and waited. Eventually a very nice lady left a gap for me to escape. Thank you nice lady. Nice to know some drivers are kind and considerate. Had to stop to let a blind Taxi driver out, but eventually got home.

But yeah... Not really enough time to watch the film I wanted to see. Decided to vent to the internet.

New evening plans - glass of wine. Chocolate egg, and this week's Picard.

Final day in LA.

flickums wanted to go to the Forest Lawn cemetery. There are many famous people buried there.

We arrived. Found the mausoleom - not too hard since it was massive. But the door was locked. So was the other door, but there ws a sign saying visitors need to be able to say who they want to visit. Apparently the staff aren't allowed to say where people are buried either. They're not really about tourists.

So we abandoned that, and came back. We did have time to do another luckykaa thing. The Angel Flight railway. A funicular that goes from the street to nowhere in particular. But it's always fun to ride a funicular.

After that we had a lot mopre time to kill than expected. Loitered in the hotel a little. Took a lot of photos. The lobby was used as the ballroom. the gallery was used as the main entrance. The elevators were used as-is. I think a lot of the corridors were on the floors that we couldn't access. I feel I should have posed with my Slimer keyring but I forgot I had it.

We had a lot of time so decided to take the LAX Flyer to the airport. It's only a couple of stops on the metro to Union station and a lot cheaper than an Uber.

So that was it for the holiday. Minor annoyance that they didn't realise we had an upgrade. Decided to splash out for lounge access again. Flew home. Travel to Euston station was frustrating with many delays on the Elizabeth line, Paddington being confusing, and no escalator at Euston Square.

Still, we got home. Had tea. Watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Slept like the dead!

So, it's "catboy's choice@ day. Apparently I've been dragged around so it's my turn.

I wanted to be a science nerd. There's an observatory in the Hollywood Hills. It was a location for Terminator, Rebel Without a Cause, the Rocketeer and a lot of other movies, and is an excellent vantage point for seeing the Hollywood sign, but most importantly of all, it's an observatory! They have telescopes there.

flickums was not that interested. She was, however very keen on petting some dogs that had shown up. This was obviously some sort of charity looking for homes for dogs. Flick took a liking to Sheena the husky, and was very upset that we wouldn't be able to take her home.

Observatory had a small visitor centre, mostly aimed at kids. There's the usual selection of exhibits - some models of planets and stars, Faucault's pendulum, brass markings indicating scale distances of planetary orbits, but they also had a Tesla Coil and they demonstrate it at the weekends! It was the weekend!!

So having seen that, I wanted to go to Santa Monica Pier. Flickums persuaded me that we should take a short detour to Union Station which doubled as the police station in Blade Runner.

So after that brief detour, we got on the train to Santa Monica. It was more of a train than a tram, but the lack of street running means it's probably best classified as light rail. Anyway, it was a long journey, but there was a very talkative conspiracy theorist telling us all about everything from his Portuguese ex-wife to how we all have a chromosome 2 and how he's a private investigator. Given some of the crazies we encountered, this was one of the more pleasant ones.

So, we arrived. Santa Monica is a seaside resort and as a seaside cat, I find all seaside resorts comfortingly similar. There are shops selling beach stuff, and a pier. Santa Monica has a sandy beach and it's actually pleasantly warm and busy even in February, so definitely a nice place to visit.

I was hoping it would be more stereotypically Californian, with people playing frisbee, driving dune bugs around and roller-blading along the promenade but that was not to be. There were buskers on the pier, including some Stormtroopers who let people take photos with them for a substantial tip, and a chap playing a "Tale As Old As Time" from Beauty And The Beast on violin. Rides were extortionately expensive so gave them a miss.

A lady came up and started chatting to us, complimenting flickums a lot, before asking for money. She was very nice though, and this was the politest beggar I'd ever encountered so I figure she earned $10.

We got the the end of the pier, and looked out over the ocean. That was really all I wanted to do there. Soak up the seaside ambiance. There was a small display showing the history of the pier. Apparently the inspiration for Popeye - Olaf Olsen - was one of the people who spent a lot of time on the pier. At one point there was a proposal to replace the pier with a bridge to an artificial island, showing that politicians sometimes just don't get it.

I felt at this point I'd soaked up enough seaside atmosphere. so we returned and headed to Hollywood Boulevard, stiopped to look at the Apollo 11 'star" (actually a moon), and grabbed dinner, but we were really here for my final pick of the day, I wanted to go to the Scum and Villainy cantina. A Star Wars themed bar, with many a cocktail. I had a "Stay Puft Martini", a Tiki Temple of Doom (served with the Indiana Jones theme accompanying) and a cocknocker (alcohol free).

Really nice place. Cocktails were surprisingly cheap. Staff seemed highly geeky! Door the the gents' was painted up as the TARDIS.

It was a pleasant last full day.

Or Driving Miss Flickums or LA Story.

Happy Birthday

flickums !!!

So it's Flick's birthday. She magnanimously allowed me to book a private tour of Movie locations. We'd selected 10 must-see locations, and set off to meet our driver in Hollywood!

Trip was not that pleasant. LA's metro system is cheap and efficient, but also quite popular as a place for LA's homeless to sleep. And some guy sounded like he was spoiling for a fight so we felt it might be wise to switch to the next carriage, as did at least one other passenger. But aside from that there were no issues.

Our Driver - Paul met us at the Metro station on Hollywood Boulevard. A very friendly chatty chap with excellent movie knowledge, as well as knowing the locations we were seeing well - all skills that make for a good guide. He also does a really good impression of Donkey from Shrek. Not an essential skill but amusing.

Hollywood Boulevard was a good place to start because we have the Dolby Theatre - where the Oscars are held, and Grauman's Chinese Theatre, which is probably the world's most iconic cinema! Fantastic place - outside are blocks with famous names and handprints! I put my hand where Leonard Nimoy had (his hand print was the Vulcan salute, or course). We found the Star Wars prints, and then there was Roy Rogers and Trigger!

We made our way around another tour - a group tour; that actually made us feel pretty pleased to be part of a private tour, and into the car!

First up was Nancy's House from Nightmare On Elm Street. Paul had a laptop with images from the movie to give context, which was useful because without context, this is just a house. Apparently the owners put a Freddy Kruger in the window on Hallowe'en.

Ode To Joy in the music system informed us that we were approaching Nakatomi Plaza! We jumped out, took photos of me wearing me Nakatomi 1988 Christmas Party T-shirt and onto the next location.

Next stop was Flynn's arcade. A brief stop. It no longer has the main sign, but there is a canopy at the side that says Flynn's Arcade, and a note in the window saying it's not actually an arcade. After that, I wanted to go to the Tar Pits, more out of nerdy curiousity than any movie connectiion, although they do feature in the game LA Noire. LA Noire's tar pits seemed to be a lot larger though.

Brief stop at David's House from Wargames. Then Dom's house from the Fast and Furious movies. the owner of the F&F house apparently doesn't like that people come to look at it, and it's surrounded by a large fence. Seems strange to buy a house with that history and be angry at the result.

We absolutely had to stop at the intersection where Butch ran over Marcellus in Pulp Fiction. Our driver had a prop for us - a donut box - so we could re-create that scene.

A quick zip through the Toon Town Tunnel; which was also the tunnel in Back To The Future Part 2, zoom round Griffith Observatory, and then back to near the start, where we stopped at Musso & Frank Grill from Once Upon a Time In Hollywood and Ed Wood.

We were dropped off at Mel's Drive-in for Lunch, and we went our separate ways.

Paul the Driver had mentioned that there's a car museum, which has Ecto-1, so we thought that might be a good place to go. But we could not find ecto-1. We found the movie car display. There was a 1989 Batmobile, and KITT, and a Delorean Time Machine, and a lot of others but no Ecto-1! We asked and apparently it had been taken back by the owner some months before.

I did quite enjoy the rest f the museum. Some nice exhibits, especially of some early cars, like the Model T and the Benz Patent Motor Car, plus some hot rods and supercars and a lot of concept cars on the second floor, but I think I was a lot more into this than Flick.

Ground Floor was dedicated to Tesla (the company, not the guy) which was not that interesting. Felt too much like an advertisement.

We headed back to Hollywood Boulevard and after looking at some of the stars on the Walk of Fame, and Flickums being a Disney shill in the Disney store, headed to Musso and Frank's for dinner. Turns out the servings were a lot larger than I expected though and I couldn't finish it. Also was a little uncertain about whether the pork was properly cooked so decided to accept defeat. So we asked fro the check, and waiting while the next customer felt that she absolutely had to chat to the waiter.

After that we were flagging somewhat so headed back to the hotel.

That leaves time for canoodling and maybe a quick swim.

Today's weather: Rain. Lots of rain. All the rain!

But that didn't deter us. We had tickets booked for Universal Studios and by golly we were going to go to Universal Studios! And we did. We even got to sit at the front of the carriage of the shuttle/bus/road-train thing which was a mistake because it doesn't have front windows and it was raining.

So, Universal Studios is a theme park next to the Universal studio complex. There are rides, including the studio tour! Since there was no wait time on that, and it was the one thing I really wanted to do, that's where we went first!

Our guide was Joy. My god was she enthusiastic! Our driver was Mark. Joy was extremely enthusiastic about Mark's driving skills. So we enthusiastically set off. Part of the tour was simply showing some of the town sets. These get re-used a lot apparently. There was a Wild West area, Mexico, and "Little Europe" - a set that can fit in for pretty much any European country just by changing the language used for road signs. It was also used for The Good Place. Wouldn't have recognised it if it wasn't pointed out although I might have recognised the station.

Some of the sets were just facades, but we had a whole crashed plane set that was used for War Of The Worlds.

We also had some set pieces. Amity Island, where Joy's "boyfriend" George was diving. But poor George got eaten by a mechanical shark. Poor Joy was heartbroken for several seconds. There were a few set pieces like that. The Mexico set they could make it rain. Since it was pouring with rain, that didn't make a lot of difference. But they also caused a flash flood! All very impressive.

The other aspect of the tour are two action rides. The "tram" (an open bus with several carriages) pulls into a studio building, and we get a 3D action sequence (3D glasses provided) with hydraulics to shake us all about! First one was Kong, where we were in the middle of a fight between King Kong and some dinosaurs. The other was a Fast And Furious ride - it even started with several women who didn't pack enough clothes. they were ushered away, we had a rather cheesy expositional sequence with Vin Diesel and other F&F cast, before we were launched into an exciting car chase!

So we finished the tour and looked at ride times. Because of the weather these were all pretty darn short. Jurassic World ride (which is mostly outside, and a "splash" ride) had a 5 minute queue. Figured I was already wet so why not! Plot is a basic tour of the park goes wrong, so it's a pleasant cruise round the herbivore pens, then everything goes haywire and we get attacked by dinosaurs before, for reasons that don't need to make sense, we do a dive and splash into the water.

flickums was happy waiting in the Jurassic Park cafe, and let me go on another ride that she's too wussy for. Revenge of The Mummy. A really good roller coaster that starts off in the dark, then goes backwards!!! Neither ride had a queue so I didn't feel too bad about having Flick wait for me.

We were already there so decided to have lunch at the Jurassic Cafe. Flick ordered a turkey leg platter, which, appropriately for the cafe, looked as big as a dinosaur leg!

I managed to persuade Flick to go on the Transformers 3D ride. There aren't any drops and this was confirmed by several sources. This didn't stop it from being a really intense ride! Riders are in cars that zip about and zoom around with a really solid impression of flying and racing around. Presumably it's mostly fairly stationary aside from the tilting and shaking, and we're just shuttled between screens but the illusion is absolutely incredible and really feels like we must have travelled miles at extreme speeds! Definitely the most exciting ride I've been on this holiday!

We then went for the less intense King Fu Panda ride. This was essentially a movie with tilting vibrating seats. Good fun though and quite nice to have a sit down.

We weren't intending Kung Fu Panda to be our final ride, but next we went for the Secret Life Of Pet. Unlike the others this seemed to have a really long queue. That spent long periods not moving at all. After a while we started questioning why we were even there. We hadn't seen the movie, and there wasn't any particular selling point. Decided to bail on that one.

At this point we were getting Flash Flood warnings on our phones (In America these are automated broadcast messages)

We were going to go to Waterworld - the water based stunt show and call it a day, but turned out it was cancelled, ironically because of the rain. Decided to call it a wash - in every sense of the word - and head back to the hotel.

Managed quite a haul in the shops. Flickums bought a "Bort" keyring. Sadly we didn't see any calendars with the month of Smarch. I picked up a wallet for Flickums because it was half-price. Somehow it was even less than that. No idea what happened there. We also acquired socks (matching His And Hers Frankenstein/Bride Of Frankenstein socks), T-shirts and a cuddly Toothless, who I plan to train. That last one was a last minute impulse purchase I decided I wanted just after we left. I dashed back in (fortunately we had a re-entry hand stamp that we went for mainly out of a sense of irony), and bought it. Flickums had made good use of the time making her own purchase of a pancake. I was offered a bite. It was hot, and delicious!!!

So a few other notes; there's a "Springfield" area with a lot of shops and restaurants based on Simpsons shops. There's Moe's bar, a Krusty Burger, a Kwik-e-Mart (the gift shop) and others. There's also a Harry Potter area that we avoided because we're not that fond of JK Rowling right now.

At the time we left, despite it still being relatively early, very few people were still arriving. Quite a number were leaving.

Something of a recovery day today. Had a decent enough sleep but feet are tired. So we went to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

Didn't have the right change for the bus, so the driver let us off the final 50 cents. They're remarkably relaxed about paying for buses here. The return trip, we were directed to enter at the rear and didn't even have a chance to pay. I'm feeling somewhat guilty about all this, and have since decided to buy a 7 day card. LA transport is now getting a couple of days free from me so at least Karma is balanced.

The museum has a very expensive trendy cafe on the ground floor. We stopped there for some overpriced drinks before going in, on the pretext that we had timed tickets. There was a nice selection of cocktails but it was 11:30 am and I wasn't in the mood for booze. So we went in. Saw various displays focusing on some specific films, including The Godfather. Some actual Oscars were on display, as well as some of the outfits that have been worn on the red carpet. One room, on two floors had a matte painting of Mount Rushmore from North By Northwest.

They had a very nice collection of costumes, including one from Mirror Mirror, another from Mary Queen of Scots, and best of all, the Goblin King's outfit from Labyrinth.

I think what really got me excited was the selection of props. Several from the Dark Crystal, a costume from Black Panther, the two main droids from Star Wars, Terminator's head, and the miniature that was used as the Cobblepot mansion in Batman Returns.

Final part worth mentioning was a 3 screen montage of scenes from sci-fi movies, arranged as sets of thematically similar ideas. So we had a spaceship chase scene from Flash Gordon, juxtaposed with the opening shot of Star Wars. Lots of shots from some great movies, including Destination Moon, The Time Machine, and Forbidden Planet; as well as some not so great ones that had nice effects.

Wrapped up the time with an expensive but very tasty meal and a visit to the gift shop. Nice to actually have some time to just chill after the last couple of very busy days.

Disneyland is not close to Downtown LA. But there is an express bus service that will take us there in 2 hours. Not bad for $2 per person, especially since the driver decided he couldn't be bothered dealing with 2 tourists trying to pay so let us on for free.

Disney has the usual security bag check. We got through there, and

flickums asked someone where we could buy tickets.

"You don't have a reservation!?" came the shocked reply. We were grudgingly directed to the ticket booth. I tried getting the app to work. Turns out it was the Disneyland Paris app. Tried downloading the correct app. Didn't want to let me log in. Tickets were a lot more expensive than Flickums was prepared for. And for some reason needed to supply an email address for tickets, as the ticket seller disappeared for several minutes dealing with this.

With Flick still feeling from sticker shock, we got in! I was feeling a bit grumpy over tech frustrating me, so Flickums let me have first choice. After walking down Main street, we were right by Star Tours! So that's my choice. It's really good fun! It's a simulator - hydraulic movements - and the premise is we're taking a trip to see the sights of the Star Wars universe but we get mixed up in the events of the movies.

Next was Flickums Choice, there wouldn't be any argument, so Haunted Mansion!!!

This did involve taking the train! Which took us through the dinsosaur era!

Haunted Manson is really good fun! Lots of clever optical illusions. Starts in a "Stretching Room", which seems to just extend. Portraits around the edges extend so you see the full bodies of the people in who are now shown to be in dangerous situations. The stretching room is actually a lift. something I told Flick about some time ago but she already knew and now I'm relentlessly teased about. But it is a really good ride! So much fun, and lots of clever optical illusions for the ghosts.

Flick then insisted we go to Fantasyland which is where all the princesses live. Flick was getting very excited, then exploded at seeing a princess meet and greet! I glued the exploded flickums fragments together and we joined the queue. Flick was assuming we'd get a random princess, but we got three! First up was Cinderella who loved that I was being Lucifer for the day! Next up was Ariel who said it must have been a long swim from England. And we were directed to the next room. where Flick almost missed Snow White! I was on the verge of a rugby tackle before she noticed, and seemed really quite star struck! After that we went on the Snow White Enchanted Wish ride at Flick's behest,

I felt at this point, I could demand it was my turn to choose, so I went to Galaxy's Edge - the Star Wars area. Disney have done some fantastic set dressing there! It really feels like you're on Tatooine! There was a bar selling blue milk, which tasted kinda weird. We then went to Docking Bay 7 for food. Really quite tasty - Star wars themed but fairly general fast food type stuff. I had a pitta hummus and fake meatball thing - "Felucian Kefta", Flick had "Chicken Yip Tip" which was crispy chicken served with American style gravy.

Rides in the area were a little heavy on the queuing, so I was dragged back to Fantasyland for Mr Toad's Wild ride - basically a car taking us through Wind In The Willows scenes. Next was It's a Small World because apparently it's the law. I have to say this is one that confuses me. I guess it was quite a nice attraction when is started in the 1964 worlds fair, but it seems a little tame and kinda of cheap looking by today's standards. And damn that song gets stuck in your head!

I really wanted something that was more of a Neil thing, so we agreed to go our separate ways, Flick hates roller coasters. I love them, so I went for Space Mountain! Longest I had to queue. An hour and a bit. But I would have been upset if I hadn't gone on this one. It's one of the famous rides. A space themed roller coaster in the dark! There are some elements that really feel like you're just being launched into a void! Great fun!

Poor Flick was stuck in the queue for the storybook canal, and then they closed the ride on her, so had to go for some retail therapy.

At this point the Pirates Of the Caribbean ride queue had died down a bit so we went on that. Good fun. We got to sail past diners at one of the restaurants. Were planning on food after this but Haunted Mansion queue had shrunk and Flick wanted another go!

Dinner at Alien Pizza Planet.

I really wanted to go on the Smuggler's run ride so we figured we'd squeeze in a few more rides. especially because things were a lot quicker now people had started going home. It was a confusing ride. Interactive to a degree. We were pilots. I was left/right, flick was up/down. Not sure whether the controls actually did that much but it was fun!

We were hoping to see the castle, and go on the paddle steamer but by this point things were starting to close. Decided to finish off with one last ride on Peter Pan - okay that came out wrong. But anyway, the ride involves flying over London and Neverland in a pirate ship.

And at this point we just had the trouble of getting home. Was a bit confusing where to get the bus. Tried the other side of the road, but no. Disney staff were pretty hopeless and guessed wildly but were wrong. A helpful man who knew what he was talking about. Turns out buses in both directions stop at the same stop.

2 hours later we were finally back home.

Bed was nice. Bed was warm!

Another trip to Belgium. Bit of a short trip because we're a little light on reamaining holidays.

So, I felt I should wait in the First Class lounge at Macnhester and take advantage of the snacks. Then when I got on the train, I realised I didn't actually have a first class ticket. Will have to try that more often... Penedelino pendelinoed me to Euston, and walked to St Pancras. Found myself arriving far too early. Did see an odd altercation where a policeman told a woman "I wouldn't do that", followed by the woman apparently doing whatever "that" was.

flickums arrived with plenty of time to spare, so we got a burger. I accidentally ordered off-menu. Apparently a bacon Whopper doesn't exist. Well, all I can say is, it does now!

It was finally time to go to the Eurostar terminal and so we went. Train whisked us to Brussels, while Flickums revised her highway code. We arrived late, walked to the hotel, because it was only walking distance away. Checked in. Discovered the hotel was rather nice, and collapsed in bed.

Saturday

I wanted to go to Leuven because it's a bit different. So, after breakfast (included in price) we caught the train, and zipped to the next town along. It was Saturday so it was market day. Lots of junk, and a few stalls selling worthwhile stuff. Bought a Christmas present for my dad. We then found the Christmas market... Found a present for my mum. Found a pancake stall. Flickums bought be a glühwein but I didn't ike it. Then she felt terrible guilty so bought me a hot fruity drink that was nicer, but got fleeced with her change.

The reason I actually wanted to go was that it's a more traditional town than Brussels, with a nice university vibe, and there's the beguinage (Or the Groot Begijnhof since we're in Flanders). These days it's student accomodation, but the beguinage was a place that housed beguins - women who live in a religious commune but don't take the vows that nuns do. This particular one is a UNESCO world heritage site. I think it's worth looking at.

I learned that they light candles at 5pm, but it was nowhere near close to that time and there was nowhere near enough to do in little Leuven to occupy us until then, so we returned to Brussels, and looked around the St. Catherine Christmas market. Little Canada was still there. Flickums was still feeling guilty about buying me inadequate glühwein, and bought me another hot beverage - Canadian style. Which I accepted warmly. I bought some beer. One of them had a bar wench on the label, and I was strrongly encouraged to buy that. Flickums wanted to go to "Choco Nads" because she has a muture sophisticated sense of humour like that, and they sell nice chocolates. I wanted to go to the Delrium village for a beer. Delirium Christmas was nice and warming.

We went for dinner at the Cheescake Cafe, because it's a cafe that does cheesecake. More of a large restaurant than a cafe, to be fair. I had beer and steak, followed by a hot fudge sundae. Flickums had omelette and "pop" of some sort, and cheeesecake. Were knackered by this point so returned to the hotel for essential snuggles.

Sunday

Had breakfast because we could.

I was planning to do the Brussels market today but we'd done that yesterday. Still, we went back for remaining purchases. Flickums was still feeling guilty about the glühwein, so bought me another. This one was actually really good. Had an edgy flavour, and genuine bits of lemon. Also tasted spicier as I got to the bottom. Very good. Flickums bought a goth Alice picture, and a Cinderella picture. We shared a fondue roll type thing. Then it was a matter of killing time until it was time to get the train. Stopped in various geeky shops. Belgium does have its comic tradition... Went back to Delerium cafe for more beer. Wish I knew what it was. Decided to walk up to the park and palace. Then checked tickets before we got there, and realised that I'd got mixed up over time, so it was probably a good idea to return to the station.

They've rearranged the Eurostar terminal! Apparently they're refurbishing, which is fine, but it does mean there are annoying queues and I had sore feet. Still, we got there with plenty of time to spare. Sat on the train and zipped home.

It was a shame we only had a day and a half to spend this year. We did do everything we wanted (I drank beer, fickums bought chocolates and had cheesecake) so it's not terrible, but I'd have liked to have been able to watch the parade. Maybe next year.

It was my last

flickums weekend until December :(

But it was a fun weekend!

Started off well. Got to the station with plenty of time to catch my train. Manchester has many stations. This was the wrong one. And the next available train looked packed and uncomfortable. I decided I could afford to splash out the extra on a first class upgrade, and get the train that arrived 2 minutes later. Arrived at Chez Flickums, and collapsed in front of the 80's-tastic "The Worst Witch" - which has those wonderful 1980's kids TV production values (i.e. it looked cheap as well and used Chroma-key a lot). Also watched Sky Captain. Sort of. Flickums was plying me with wine and had some alcohol herself. Stuff happened. Angelina Jolie showed up and the plane turned into a submarine. Yeah. Wasn't really paying attention.

Saturday did a quick bit of car shopping. I wanted to see if the convertible mini appealed to me and to flickums, but I think it's a little too small and impractical. Bought ingredients and spent the rest of the day watching Police Squad. Until it was firework time!

Sheffield had its big After Dark display! We got there nice and early and had the opportunity to wander around and eat toffee apples and candyfloss and then we got a space right by the fence so we could see the bonfire being lit! Sadly, no guy. On the plus side, no crimes against geek (Leicester burned Darth Vader last year)! Really wish I'd brought gloves and a hat though. Flickums offered to buy me a tea to warm me up. I negotiated this to a hot chocolate. I suggested we go for the queue that appeared to be a place that specialised in drinks rather than the burger van that also did drinks.

I chose poorly.

Or well.

I'm not sure. We were stuck in the queue for the best part of an hour, listening to the overly perky radio people say a few things that were incomprehensible because there was an echo. On the other hand, they had additional flavour syrups and the gingerbread squirt was absolutely delicious.

Fireworks were fun and funky! Fireworks are always nice to watch.

Getting home was an adventure in itself. Logistics of this sort of thing are tricky. Everyone wants to leave at once but there are very few trams. But we got home eventually.

Sunday was a day of relaxation and pumpkin cooking. I feel pumpkins should not just be used as lanterns! So I roasted some and made pumpkin pie out of some more, while flick played Final Fantasy X. Not sure about the roast. pumpkin. I think it was a bit bland and flavourless. It seems more there as a means to soak up flavours.

Pie was a great success though. Pumpkin pie has nutmeg and cinnamon and allspice and sugar and eggs and cream, so tastes of nutmeg and cinnamon and allspice and sugar and eggs and cream. I don't think the pumpkin really contributes to the flavour but the final result is very nice!

Also watched WestWorld. One of the better serious 70's SciFi films. 70's sci fi has a tendency to take itself too seriously, be rather slow paced and talky, and end rather abruptly. Westword does end rather abruptly, but on the more positive side, it does allow for a few funny moments. It's a little slow paced but not as slow as something like the Andromeda Strain, and there's some good solid tension in the relentless pursuit which is emphasised by the absense of music and just the quiet.

Then it was time to go home. This made me sad. And while there was an attempted coup by the tram, to prevent me from leaving by not turning up, I did get to the train on time thanks to Flickums being highly organised and having a Taxi summoning device.

Another month to Flickums. *sigh* :(

Friday:

flickums came. We went to the pub and played cineplexity. Once again Flickums whuppedmy arse completely by knowing about films. Ordered nice beer, and tasty food. It's a bit of a hipster pub so the food is well presented but not as good as the solid hearty fare of the Metropolitan. Also trendy pubs have this weird thing where the pile the food up. We returned home and went for a spooky halowe'en weekend thing of watching Ghostwatch. Kind of an odd bit of TV history in that it seemed a little undecided about whether it was a hoax or a drama. It was quite clever in a lot of ways and while the acting was somewhat mixed, I can understand why some people were taking in. And as flickums pointed out it does predate things like Blair Witch.Much hilarity was had by repeated mention of a "Glory Hole".

Saturday:

Finally resolverd the Ikea Wardrobe saga. I will probably go into more details in a later post. However, managed to hire a van for 2 hours from Hertz 247. Marginally cheaper than a full day from Easirent, and they do cover fuel costs.Since I have no car this did involve the epic trip from one end of the tram network to the other, which takes a while. On the positive side, this did mean I could return the wrong wardrobe, and there was no quibble at all about a refund. Celebrated by eating meatballs, then took the epic tram journey home. Hertz Ikea Van rental is pretty good when it works but Hertz seems to have a slightly odd issue with believing I am who I say I am (They sorted it over the phone so no real issue). Everything beign automated does make things fairly efficient. Type in the code, check the damage report is correct, and then you're free to go. Wish they had reversing sensors though. Fortunately a chap with a flat cap saw us out.

Went up to Huddersfield to see Cat and Frodo. Train was a little packed but we got seats. And were really pleased to get out at Huddersfield since this is where all the football supporters got on. Was an offer to get a taxi back woth Frodo but that was a miscommunication somewhere along the lines about finishing times. Still, we had directions by taxi. Although the house was hard to find due to some rather odd numbering scheme. Still, we found the place. Cat and Frodo's daughter seemed to take a shine to me. Ordered Pizza, but they forgot Flickums's. Frodo ran an RPG for us. RPG was based on Fallout. We all died horribly! It was a lot of fun though. Involved much running around and avoiding being killed by gribbly monsters.

Sunday:

After a busy Saturday we just wanted to spend lots of time sleeping. That was fun. Eventually dragged ourselves out of bed an into Didsbury village where we acquired cheese fro baking, and then went to see Dr. Strange. Kind of enjoyed it. It's decent Marvel fare. Bongledooch is good, as ever, and there's plenty of action. So we saw that, went to the arcade and played lots of games invloving shooting. Apparently pirates had machine guns. Who'd have thought?

Returned home and watched Bram Stoker's Dracula. A film that I had a certain level of trepidation about; mainly because of Keanu Reeves playing Jonathan Harker. Actually it's not so terrible. Even though Keanu constantly looks like Ted "Theodore" Logan, and while - bless him - he tries to do a British accent it isn't exactly great, at least Jonathan Harker isn't actually all that significant a character after the Castle Dracula part. And it is a fairly faithful adaptation of the book (apart from the slightly odd reincarnation thing). Plus gorgeous costume (oscar winning) and set design (oscar nominated).

Sadly, as ever, I needed to send Flickums home at this point. But I get to see her again next weekend :)

So, feeling borderline angry, near to the raging dragon stage, I decided we should go out. Dragged

flickums to Didsbury Village while I fumed. First of all we went to the cheese shop. She bought me a cheese! And a chocolate lollypop! Anger meter went from almost angry to peeved. Then onto charity shops! Flickums ogled lots of books. There were some sort of tempting things. And flickums seemed to be busily being happy, That makes me happy. Anger meter went from peeved to merely miffed fairly quickly. By the time we got to the cancer research shop, I was just feeling a little sad. This was neutralised when we got the the Cancer research shop and I bought a wine making kit. Bargain. Must have been an unwanted gift or something.

Wandered back up the other side of the road. Almost bought a copy of a Beautiful Mind. Managed to resist buying the Barbie version of A Christmas Carol... Went to ~~the hipster pub~~ one of many hipseter pubs in Didsbury, where they had Kwak, and other Belgian beers, as well as Cineplexity, which I was planning to taunt Flickums with but it turned out is actually kid of a fun game. Pick up two cards. They describe scenes, actors, settings and stuff. Try to think of a film that matches. Unfortunately I got trounced by flickums since she does know her stuff when it comes to movies.

I also wanted to check out The Art Of Tea. A teashop. Turns out it has a bookshop in the back. Flickums liked it, but all feels a bit expensive compared with the bargains available in the charity shops. Very untidy. Put me in mind of Aziraphale's shop in Good Omens. So we had a look in the bookshop. Flickums bought me a Morrocan mint tea. And a coffee cake. It was very nice. I was a little surprised that it had nuts in and flickums beat herself up about it because she didn't realise but it was fine.

Went home. I was feeling much happier. I made pie. Flickums made the pastry. We watched Short Circuit. It was fun, although once agan the army is inept. They need to put the dogs in charge again.

Fickums is an awesome girlfriend. Everyone should have one. She really does know how to cheer me up when I'm upset.

Another weekend of fun and frolics with

flickums.

Had spent the night at the parents'. So drove home at a snail's pace through traffic on the M25 and M1. Still, at least the Dartford crossing is less insane than it was. Arrived before flickums so couldp pick her up from the station, and we had the chance to eat pizza and watch X-Men: Days of Future Past.

We went to the fair on Saturday. Decided not to try the hang from a bar for 2 minutes challenge. Watched some other people do it. 2 minutes is a very long time! Had a go at a shooting range. I suspect corks are too light to knock a ring off a bottle. Went to a different shooting range and shot sweets off a shelf instead. Much more successful. Tried "The claaaw" to win a cuddly toy but it dropped the prize. Flick won me a prize though. It was a prize every time, and she won me a dragon.

We went on the dodgems. We went on the scary caterpillar roller coaster. One or the other of us may have been too wussy to go on the spinny thing.

We saw X-Men Apolcalypse. That was fun.

Sunday I ran my Spirit of The Century game. I really need to come up with more of a plot next time I run a game. And understand how the mechanics work. It was all a bit chaotic. Still, people had fun.

Flick had found Sky High in a charity shop so we watched that. It's a funny film. Not a must-see by any means but funny and doesn't take itself remotely seriously. Well worth the 99p.

Monday we went to Warhammer World. Flick seemed excited I wasn't quite sure what to expect. I was also a little uncertain if I was in the right place when we seemed to be heading through an industrial estate. It seems to be lots of Warhammer gaming tables and shops selling warhammer stuff. Also a nice restautrant/bar called Bugman's Bar. I had a lot of fun reading the descriptions in the menu. "A feast worthy of the Dwarf Kings of Old!". Was given a taster game with a staff member reffing for us. Fun although the set-up did seem highly luck based.

And then flickums had to go home. Which is something I really hate about this.

We need to live closer together :(

Left quite late.

flickums is apparently still under the delusion that I'm some sort of neat freak and wanted time to clean up. Then her train was cancelled. Then the train was loitering outside Sheffield forever. Ended up diverting to the station to pick her up, where I found the station at exactly the same time as flickums found me.

Saturday involved books. Part 1 was a trip to Sheffield Space Centre. I picked up yet another RPG book for a game that I'll never get round to running. It does involve skyships and swashbuckling though, and flickums hard sold me into buying it. Flick picked up the War Of The Worlds rulebook she was musing over for the past month or so. Then there was a book swap. This meant ditching some of my surplus books and acquiring a similar number of other books. There was a very large pile of books left afterwards. Also there was cake.

Finished the evening by going to see Captain America: Civil War. Started off as aprt of Team Cap. Felt that Tony was actually being the more measured, reasonable one this time. Disappointed by the lack of Peggy Carters.

Sunday we played Lego Indy then went to the pub for Sunday lunch.Then it was time for another Bad Movie Night. Flickums keeps vetoing my suggestions on the grounds that they're terrible. I still can't understand her logic. So, we saw The A-Team and Team America (thus combining into the ultimate jingoistic film, "The A-Team America"). The A-Team is a ridiculous film. Diverges from the original in that people actually get shot!

Monday was Bank Holiday, and involved playing board games. Finally unboxed Concept. Had a go at Wizard Of Oz Munchkin. Sadly there were three of us. It's a 4 player game. It ends too quickly with 3 players and never ends with 5 or more. Followed up with "Hey! That's my fish", which is a nice simple strategy game; then a game of Eight Minute Empire: Legends, which was enjoyable although not really the sort of game I really go for.

Finished up with Roast beef and Bride of Chaotica - one of the best Voyager episodes, or at least something that should appeal to a fan of classic Black and White sci-fi serials. Kate Mulgrew really seemed to be loving this one.

As ever, the weekend came to an end. Why must that always happen!?

Visited

flickums for the long long weekend. Holly the evil satnav tried her best to get me stuck in traffic but I arrived there eventually. We spent most of the weekend watching movies. Many of them bad, most deliberatley chosen for that reason.

Thursday:

The Fifth Element: I love this film! So quotable. So gorgeous. So funny. Soi much action! Mila Jovovich with orange hair, kicking ass!

Friday:

Zootropolis. Disney's latest. So we have a rabbit voiced by Snow White from OUAT, who is the first rabbit ever to graduate from Police Academy. Despite finishing top of her class she gets put on traffic duty. She insists on being put on the missing animals case, and gets given 48 hours to solve it. She finds a con artist fox that she previously encountered ight have information and sets off to solve the case. This was really good. The jokes were perhaps a little predictable, and the plot was not that original - 48 hours combined with a couple of other buddy cop movies - but the main character was adorable. ("Ooh, ah, you probably didn't know, but a bunny can call another bunny 'cute', but when other animals do it, that's a little..."), but the animal society was really nicely thought out and the voice acting talent was great.

Star Trek Tribbles: Double tribbles. Trouble With Tribbles is still funny but it's a little heavy handed with the humour. Fortunately Kirk is po-faced enough that he does make a good straight man. DS9's followup "Trials and Tribbleations" is a lot more subtle with the humour, and throws in a lot of fan service, taking advantage of Dax having been around back then. We finally learn who it was throwning the tribbles at kirk.

Saturday:

Supernatural. Two episodes. Both silly ones. One about a lucky rabbit's foot, the other about a wishing well. Poor Ted Raimi. His characters can never catch a break. I felt sorry of the teddy bear with existential angst.

Bad Movie Marathon

Started with Flash Gordon. It's daft and campy and almost too self-aware to quite qualify as a bad movie. The special effects may be crappy but the actual creativity in the design is fantastic!

Followed up with The Three Musketeers. Pretty certain Dumas didn't have fleets of airships in the original story. Although several of the plot elements are, surprisingly, fairly accurate to the source material. Still convinced that Miulady De Winter should be a cat, though.

Finally, Masters Of The Universe! A terrible film, amusingly starring Tom Paris and Monica from Friends. I seem to have offended a few people by saying how bad it is. But it has nothing to do with the series! No Prince Adam, no Orko, the characters do not look similar to their cartoon counterparts. Change the character and place names, and nobody would realise it was based on the toy range.

Sunday:

Did role playing in the afternoon. Then followed up with an episode of MST3K. We went for "Time Chasers". A 1994 movie, made in 1990, that looks like it was made in 1982. It's about the world's most unattractive leading man, who builds a time machine in his plane, using a commodore 64 (which seems to be PC compatible). He tricks a blonde reporter and a representative of the evil company to come along so he can show off his technology and get funding (because self funding time travel is, apparently, difficult). He takes them to the future, then the reporter falls for him so they go back in time, to check out the 1950's, then go into the future again where it's turned into a dystopia. MST3K clearly cut a chunk out of this section because it's not all that well explained (and to be fair to the film the plot is at least mostly coherent). So they try to convince the head of Evil Company™. to not destroy the future. Evil Boss refuses and tries to have them arrested. Ugly Time Travel geek runs heroically escapes from cosmically inept security.

Ugly computer nerd and blonde reporter go back in time to try to convince himself not to give the demonstration in the first place. Evil Boss armed with a copy of the software, takes off after Ugly computer nerd, and shoots him down. And to be honest this part of the film isn't so bad. Anyway, after some running around the recent past, they escape back to the American revolution where they have a final showdown.

Forbidden Planet: An impressive film for its day. A lot of it still stands up pretty well. Special effects look a little dated, but not all that bad. The animated monster (animated by Disney Animator Joshua Medeor) still looks fantastic. Everyone loves Robbie The Robot. And, like Flash Gordon, you really get a feel that this is an alien world. Something that Star Wars never quite managed.

Monday:

Batman V Superman. Meh. I don't hate it. I can see that there was a definite effort here to make something worthy and thoughtful. The problem is I found it dull. I couldn't really work out what the film was really about except for a bunch of vague excuses to have Batman and Superman in conflict. The film is too grim even for my tastes. There's no levity and not a lot of character development. Lots of plot threads that don't really get a good payoff, and a feel that Snyder wants to turn Superman into the X-Men.

Still had a few more hours on the Salzburg card, so we had a look at the Toy museum. It's pretty good, even if it is aimed more at kids than big kids. At first it seemed a bit disappointing since there were three rooms, but then there were another 2 floors that we almost missed. It's very interactive. There's a marble run and a room for constriuction toys. Upstairs are a bunch of more static exhibits, including the He-Man exhibit, which was there to mock us for being old enough to remember. Apparently the slot car racing runs from 3pm to 4pm, but we didn't wait around for that. The top floor has a lot of model railway stuff. Press button to make train go. Quite a nice layout.

After that we went to the science and natural history museum. Lots of hands on stuff. These things are fun, but I do wonder if kids actually learn anything from them. Flickums braved the reptile house, fearing they may have sneaked some spiders in there but it was mostly snakes and actual reptiles.

Finished the day by heading to the palce that does vintage photos. I was the King of Austria, and

flickums was my lady. I was possibly a bit too smiley for a serious royal, but I'm a naturally smiley person.( Olde worlde photoe undere ye cut )
So, time up, we strolled back to the hotel, got a taxi to the airport, and took turns being stressed out an anxious. Me because Salzburg airport was small and crowded; flickums because of scare-o-planes. Still, we found a nice place to sit and at least we had spare space on the plane.

Plane took off. Plane landed. Am only slightly bruised by flick grabbing me.

Finished the day going to the Augustiner braüstübl. A brewery and collection of beer halls.

Was a little bemused at first because the entrance looked like the entrance to an apartment building, but heading down the stairs we heard the bustle of people.

We found a tale and I tried to figure out how to buy beer. It's a bit of an odd setup. Collect mug. Pay for beer. Acquire receipt. Exchange receipts for beer. There were two beers listed but I only worked out how to buy one of them.

Food was a little simpler. A series of stalls in one of the rooms. There didn't seem to be a lot of option for a complete meal though.

Decided to buy some souvenir mugs. And some souvenir beer. The mug purchasing system was similar to the beer purchasing system, but the bottled beer purchasing system was the simple prices of exchange money for crate of 6 beers.

Happy with my purchase, we returned home.

...And I'm going to climb it with strength not of my own.

Instead I'll use the cable car.

The Untersberg cable car costs almost as much as the 24 hour Salzburg card, and the salzburg card gives 24 hours free public transport, plus a morning of visiting other places for free. So buying the card seemed a good choice. So we caught the bus to the mountain. I was worried that I wouldn't know which stop it was but it turned out it was the last one, so that made it easier. We got into the cable car. Quite a journey. Not been on such a long cable car ride before.

At the upper cable car station there are signs on the wall describing the place. Apparently Emperor Frederick Barbossa is asleep in the mountain. The mountain is also notable for being used at the start and end of the sound of music. It's no surprise Maria was late back though since they filmed from the German side. Also - the mountain is nowhere near Switzerland so not a good escape route.

Trudged up the slippery slope and there's a nice little cafe where I ordered a gluhwien and soup, and flickums ordered ham and bread. We then swapped food halfway through because I already had a hot warming gluwein, and flick didn't seem to like her nibbles all that much (possibly because of the horsradish). I like horseradish so was happy to trade.

We then walked a little further up. There's a cross right t the top of a mounain and some fantastic views, so I made it all the way top thetop of the mountain! I played with the panoramic mode of my camera app. Flick threw snowballs at me. I threw some at her. They weren't good snowballs but it was fun. We strolled down and just missed the cable car. Fortunately there was one more. It ocurred to me that I hadn't paid attention to when the last car was.

Stopped on the way back to get photos of the correct Von Trapp house (the one used in the movie, not the real one, which is miles away). Took more photos. Now we need to find somewhere to eat.

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