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So I can use Siri? Hadn’t realised that!

I’m a complete technophobe. I use my iPad all the time but only have a rather useless phone. My partner is even more of a technophobe than I am.

Given that my old Yaris is still going strong can I still get a satnav that would plug into the cigarette lighter? I tend not to go anywhere these days as the old sat nav stopped working years ago.

Tell her it will come much quicker if she gets to sleep for a few hours!

I came upon it whilst channel hopping and, as with most Storyville documentaries I couldn’t stop watching it. It reminded me of the Ric Burns documentary about the Donner Party whose wagon train got stuck in the Sierra Nevada in winter and had to resort to cannibalism. It worried me how...

Oh it was so close wasn’t it. Didn’t he suffer an injury at the end of the race? I’ve never been able to rewatch the race because of what happened to According to Pete, though. A dead heat would have been a good result.

I’ll always remember when he rode Neptune Collonges in the National. Mr Hales was so nervous about him running he said to Daryl, if he isn’t happy at any stage pull him up, even if it’s going down to the start. So he really trusted him. He deserved that win.

You don’t need a Sky Bet account. I think I accessed it via ITV Racing but it was a while ago.

Oh my life. I’m a wreck watching that! Brilliant.

It won’t be the new one, then. Just remember then that the train is really moving, the scenery from the train is real scenery, the snow in the scrobbling scene is real snow and the canal is a real canal with freezing cold water. But only two of the wolves are real ones, because there were only...

There’s an episode of The Riordans on utube that I’m going to watch.

Have you got the new dvd with the added interviews etc? I’ve just finished watching all the bonus stuff which I find fascinating. For some reason, watching ‘making of’ things don’t take away the magic of films or series to me but add to them and make me see them in a different way. Yes, the...

Why does this seem to happen so often to horses that have just won a big race for a smaller stable.

I’m still watching it. I don’t remember actually watching it when my kids were young although I do remember watching and loving The Children of Green Knowe ( that dvd is still magical).I think I’m only enjoying it because of being on a Facebook page devoted to it and listening to the Hypnogoria...

Just found Reflections on utube. Someone had found a copy that someone had recorded on VHS and put it on the internet!

Oh Gabriel Byrne. I first saw him in a film called Reflections. I must have had it on video because I watched it over and over. I’d love to see it again. One of those films in which not a lot happens but captivate me. It was the first time I remember seeing the excellent Harriet Walter in a...

So pleased for Jennie. We sometimes see them on the beach where Lady Buttons is having a wonderful retirement.

I don’t understand why I can like stuff by GOAT and Heilung (and, in a classical vein I can enjoy Stravinsky) which is pretty weird but can’t get any pleasure from listening to jazz. I was reading the other day that Rick Wright from Pink Floyd was basically a jazz musician, along with Charlie...

And it gives you a condition called wet lung. It’s awful that young people are vaping. Nicotine is the most addictive substance there is. The only thing that stopped me smoking was the birth of my first grandchild. There was no way that I was going to breathe poison over him. Until then, the...

Most opportune, this thread, given that I’ve just moved my cd collection to another part of the living room and have been listening to some old favourites, so I’ve dug this one out. Now I’m old I find listening to the music of my youth quite painful, although I think my 15 year old self actually...