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I have the second book and its excellent. Come to think of it, I recall winning it on here for one of the tipping comps but no idea who kindly put it up as a prize. But very grateful as it's a really interesting read.
 
moehat said:
Does racing feature much in episode one? I just got to the bit where he’s been to see the mad horse. I only found out about it because I was watching season two of my favourite comedy from the other year, The Change, and a trailer for it came on. I love Guy Pearce!
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Sorry - meant to answer this before 🤦🏼‍♀️ yes, quite a lot. They go to the races a lot first of all and then the last season ( I think it is - don’t quote me on that though!) it’s heavily racing orientated.
 
trudij said:
Sorry - meant to answer this before 🤦🏼‍♀️ yes, quite a lot. They go to the races a lot first of all and then the last season ( I think it is - don’t quote me on that though!) it’s heavily racing orientated.
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I ended up binge watching series one! Trying not to start on series two for a while ( not sure how long my resolve will last). I loved it. Not many programmes can have you jumping out of your skin, welling up and laughing out loud in just one episode.
 
Jayhawk said:
I've watched all three parts of a Star Sports Betting People Interview with author Chris Pitt on YouTube. He said that his book - A Long Time Gone ( on closed racecourses ) took around seven years to write. Another titled Go Down to the Beaten concentrates on the stories of the jockeys who didn't win the Grand National ending with AP McCoy's victory on Don't Push It. Its title comes from the John Masefield poem ' Right Royal', and the book was mentioned on grandnationalanorak.com/books-on-the-national as " the greatest book ever written about the Grand National".
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Chris ran our late lamented racing club ( oh how I miss it, especially at this time of year). One year he got every surviving National winning jockey together. I got as many as I could to sign my Grand National book.Another time he organised a special night for Michael Scudamore and Scu and Lucinda travelled down from Scotland for it. His knowledge of racing is encyclopaedic.
 
Just binge watched A Thousand Blows on Disney. Very good as one would expect from the team behind Peaky Blinders.
 
I will have a look for that. Currently just started Jack Irish as it was mentioned on here plus a guy I do some picture framing for is a C4 producer and he recommended it. Three episodes in and I do get the bit about needing subtitles! (since my eardrum rupture my hearing is rubbish) Quite enjoying it and there is a bit of racing in it.

I have also recently binged Black Snow both series - again Australian and I really, really enjoyed this. Although I really wanted to cut and wash the guy's hair - bit like Jack Irish! What is it with these Aussie actors? Don't mind a bit of rough and rugged but lanky and greasy is a bit off putting!
 
Not sure it would fit the story if he was pristine 😉

I’m rewatching NCIS Sydney - that’s good as well, though marginally off putting discovering I’ve definitely turned into my mother with all my “ oh that’s wotsit from neighbours / home and away / any other Australian show” 😆😆
 
jinnyj said:
I will have a look for that. Currently just started Jack Irish as it was mentioned on here plus a guy I do some picture framing for is a C4 producer and he recommended it. Three episodes in and I do get the bit about needing subtitles! (since my eardrum rupture my hearing is rubbish) Quite enjoying it and there is a bit of racing in it.

I have also recently binged Black Snow both series - again Australian and I really, really enjoyed this. Although I really wanted to cut and wash the guy's hair - bit like Jack Irish! What is it with these Aussie actors? Don't mind a bit of rough and rugged but lanky and greasy is a bit off putting!
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I’ve just been recommended Black Snow so it’s another one to add to the list. The good thing about A Thousand Blows, given that we’re watching it with the family, is that, unlike Peaky Blinders there are no steamy sex scenes! But do wish they’d show season two a bit sooner given that both series were made at the same time. I’m going to start on Jack English season two when the family go home next week. I rewatched The Last of the Mohicans when it was on tv the other night. One of the best films I’ve ever seen and never tire of watching it. Watched Paddington in Peru with the grandkids yesterday. Paddington Two such a hard act to follow but they pulled it off.
 
Last of the Mohicans one of my favs too - especially when he's running through the long grass to go and save her - that haunting music! Can't watch the bit with the sister though.

Watched Paddington in Peru a few weeks ago - it was OK I thought. A third film is always hard but I too think they pulled it off - Olivia Coleman as a villainous nun excellent casting!
 
I think it’s the most romantic film I’ve ever seen ( I’m not usually into romantic films) especially the bit with Alice. I hadn’t, till that point, realised that there was a love story developing between Alice and Uncas ( how beautiful is he).Although I always think about a time after the film has finished where they’re living in a cabin in the woods and Cora is nagging Hawkeye saying ‘you’re always off hunting and I’m stuck here with the kids’. I watched Snowpiercer last night so that’s another film ticked off my list of films I’ve been meaning to see. I’d forgotten that Netflix started off as a dvd home delivery company. It was the first film to be released in cinemas and on the internet at the same time, partly because of the Weinstein scandal.
 


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