Marv’s Midlife Meanderings

  The journey home on Tuesday morning was interesting. Me and the lady on the train talked a fair bit, with me not having my book to read.  She is having trouble with very noisy neighbours, and so do we at times. The young guy from the previous week, who was reading the script for Sweet Charity had done the run of performances, and it went really well. He was now preparing for a show in London, but I can’t remember which theatre it was going to be at, or what the show was.  We watched a fair number of episode of Not Going Out - season 8 episodes 6 (Marriage Guidance, 7 (Enough), and 8 (The True Meaning of Christmas), season 9 episodes 1 (Home Improvements), 2 (Escape Room), 3 (Stolen), 4 (Pets), 5 (Pants On Fire), 6 (Lollipop Man),  7 (Bust Up), and 8 (Ding Dong Merrily On Live), and season 10 episode 1 (Parachute).  We watched the latest episode of Gogglebox.  Recorded a fun episode of Pods Like Us, where I got to chat with Kev and Randy from Seaside Pod R...

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