Flat day, Four In A Bed and A Discovery Of Witches

It was a bit of a flat day today. Just felt a bit meh in general. I was channelling number one:

We took the Christmas tree and decorations down which was a bit sad as the living room looked lovely.

Watched a large umber of Four In A Bed episodes before we returned to A Discovery Of Witches.

Baking, working, Drag Race and Four In A Bed

The day kicked off with the weekly bake of gluten free keto rolls. These ones came out especially well even though I didn't really do anything different.

As it's migration time again I had to do a couple of hours of work today. Took a little longer than I had planned but got there in the end.

We caught up with the latest episode of RuPaul's Drag Race. I am really enjoying this season as the change in format has really given it a shot in the arm  as things were starting to get a bit tired. It has now become exciting to watch again and we can't wait for the next episode.

We then did a marathon of Four In A Bed episodes.

 

Good day, Star Wars: The High Republic and Light Of The Jedi

Today has been a good day. Everything ticking along nicely. The team took another resignation reasonably well, now I have the challenge of trying to fill two roles, don't hold your breath on that one!

Lucasfilm have just release a new trailer for their launch of Star Wars: The High Republic. 

In the all-new era of the glorious HIGH REPUBLIC, the noble and wise Jedi Knights must face a frightening threat to themselves, the galaxy, and to the Force itself...

The first book, Light Of The Jedi, has just arrived on my Kindle so I am really looking forward to starting that.

Finished the evening off with a nice bout of Four In A Bed.

Good back, baking, reading, Behemoth, Strongest Man, Sabrina, Four In A Bed, Dragon Tattoo (part 2)

Had a good sleep last night and woke with my back feeling much more flexible. Got up and set about making Toni's gluten free keto rolls.

I carried on my reading and finished the Lords Of Chaos book while listening to Behemoth.

Not sure why I find this compelling viewing but I did enjoy watching World's Strongest Man 2020 and the final was impressive. 

Although it has now been cancelled Netflix have released Part 4 (the final arc) of the Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina series so we started working our way through that,

It's pure bubblegum Satanism/pagan/witchraft pap but strangely enjoyable at the same time. By the end of the first episode we realised why they were cancelling it and that it wasn't actually that enjoyable after all LOL.

Slightly disillusioned with Sabrina we went back into car crash TV mode with Four In A Bed.

I made a roast beed dinner for us all (makes a change from my usual chicken eh LOL) and we watched the second part of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Sam has really enjoyed this as he hadn't seen it before and it's been so long since we watched it last that we've forgotten most of it too.

Intermittent back improvement, World's Strongest Man, Four In A Bed and Botched By Nature

The back improvement is intermittent. Sometimes it feels like it is all on the mend and then suddenly it isn't. On top of that loads of other bit of me are starting to ache on and off. It's most annoying, I just want to get up and know that it has all gone away and I can go about my business as normal.

Not a lot was done today, watched a lot of Four In A Bed and Botched By Nature and consumed some lovely turkey soup made from the remnants of Christmas.

...and relax! TLC, Tattoo Fixers, Four In A Bed and Scrooged

Woke up this morning and was not disturbed by work escalations. Bliss! My morning was my own! Watch WWE Table Ladders and Chairs PPV which had an interesting main match but the rest of it was pretty meh. I think maybe I have fallen out of love with wrestling which is a bit of a surprise. Let's see how I feel when they can get back to doing proper shows with audiences once again as it might be a combination of the product and the lack of live crowd noise...... or maybe it's just the product LOL Still, there was fire!

I moved on to some Louis Theroux and nis Scientology movie. It was a fascinating insight into this very closed, secretive group. 

A bit if housework, YUK, was then followed by some Tattoo Fixers.

I dug out some old crack in the afternoon and indulged in some Four In A Bed as it's been a while!

We started out Christmas movie viewing tonight with the Bill Murray classic, Scrooged.

Not an early start, baking, working and Interview With The Vampire

Today was not an early start which was a welcome change. I didn't get up until gone nine. As is customary it was baking day and another lovely batch of rolls was created. 

As part of the migrations it was back to the work grindstone for a short while to do some tasks and then it was back to relaxing again.

We caught up with Hell's Kitchen and then embarked on some Four In A Bed as we fancied a bit of trash.

Dinner came courtesy of Nando's (via Deliveroo) and we revisited Interview With The Vampire for a bit of Tom Cruise vampire fun. I shall repeat this again just for the benefit of my family..... yes I do now enjoy this film even if it did take me many years/watches to get there!

Stressful day, sage and Four In A Bed

Well that was a day and a half! Migration days can often be stressful but this one was far from smooth!

On the plus side there was a massive sage burning session in the house today so despite the work stuff I was massively calm and relaxed which was fantastic!

Round two of Sam's schnitzel with Toni's added mushroom jaeger style sauce helped me to relax and Four In A Bed kept us laughing.

Early start, baking, working, Four In A Bed and The Blacklist

It was an early start today. Toni got up really early as she couldn't sleep so it was early morning coffee for us which was nice change. After the coffee it was baking time again with another fabulous batch of gluten free keto rolls.

I did some work for our weekend migration and then it was time for breakfast and a catch up with two episodes of Hell's Kitchen.

After this I sadly had to go and do more work to complete a task that one of my team had not done yesterday but needed to be completed before Monday. That was definitely a grumpy moment!

A chilled afternoon and a return to Four In A Bed was most welcome. It was my cooking night so my weekly roast chicken was on offer again! Nom nom nom!

Had a bit of a tV catch up with the latest episode of Young Sheldon and then the first two episodes of the final series of The Blacklist.

The day was rounded off with a nice cuppa and more Botched.

Baking, rats, Quavers, Four In A Bed and The Terminator

It was baking day again today. More gluten free keto rolls for Toni that have once again come out feeling nice and soft like 'real' bread. I must have been bang on the ingredient level today as I ended up with a little tiddler whereas usually I get seven full size ones. Back to being slightly more generous next week.

A sausage based breakfast was accompanied by Hell's Kitchen and Young Sheldon. 

Once the food fest had gone down it was time to clean out the rats as Zoe is still over at Jade and Aaron's on the wrong side of lockdown. We took the opportunity for a good clean all over and reorganised things to make it easier looking after them going forward.

Sam had ordered some supplies from Morrisons (via Amazon) and it turned out that when a certain type of crisps was out of stock they would user Quavers as the replacement. He did order ONE bag of Quavers so it is just as well we like them!

The afternoon saw us return to our Four In A Bed TV crack as a change to our recent tattoo fix LOL.

Getting back in to franchise movie nights for November we kicked the next batch off with the 1984 classic The Terminator. We'll be travelling with Arnie for the next few nights!

Morning exercise, Louis Theroux, Spitting Image and The Curse Of The Black Pearl

I haven't been particularly active of late so decided to start doing more in the garage gym. I started out this morning with a 5km cycle. I managed that but was feeling quite tired afterwards. This was not good as normally I would do a session on the bike, some weights and then another session on the bike. It's amazing how quickly muscle atrophy can set in so it looks like I have some work to do over the next few days/weeks to get bit fitter!

As nobody else was up I chilled out with a Louis Theroux documentary which saw him return to Westboro Baptist church after the death of Fred 'Gramps' Phelps. It was good to see that some of the family members have now managed to get out but sad to see that some are still tied in with these toxic religious nuts.

When everybody was awake we made breakfast and checked out the new Spitting Image series. Have to admit it was a bit hit and miss. There were some good gags int here but it did seem to suffer from some very lazy writings. Two episodes in and we remained to be convinced, we'll probably watch a couple more to see if it does improve at all. We dug out the DVD of the original Spitting Image series to remind ourselves how good it used to be.

Now that the Halloween countdown is over we have constructed playlists for November, December and January! Talk about planning! LOL

After I had put the dinner on we watched a bit of Four In A Bed for shits and giggles!

The November countdown started tonight with Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl. We are doing franchises in November (with one exception that will be revealed on the day) so we are kicking off in Pirates mode!

Day off, Miggi's, The Mandalorian, Sixth Sense and Four In A Bed

Really enjoyed my day off today. Didn't get up until after ten and ignored anything related to work 99.9% of the day. It actually felt like I had a day off. Toni and I went out for a nice breakfast at Miggi's. I then spent a lot of the day reading more Star Wars novels.

The first episode of Season 2 of The Mandalorian dropped today so needless to say we watched that. So glad this is back again! It kicked off really well! So may nice homages to the past. No spoilers here though :)

Halloween countdown day thirty came in the form of Sixth Sense or as I like to call it, Titanic? Huh? you say? Icy dead people I reply. Groan...... you're welcome, no apologies!

The chilled out feeling continued with some car crash TV as we returned to Four In A Bed.

Quiet morning, half day, Turkish lunch, Little Shop Of Horrors and Four In A Bed

Nice quiet morning today which led into me being off for the afternoon which was lovely. Day off tomorrow as well so even more YAY!

Once work was done Toni and I went out for lunch with Ed. We went to a very nice Turkish restaurant and had some lovely food and a good catch up.

Halloween is almost upon us and on day twenty nine of the countdown we watched Little Shop Of Horrors.This little gem certainly stands up as a musical classic! There might have been a bit of singing along!

We finished the day off with some Four In A Bed since it has been a little while since we watched it.

Early shopping, Miggi's, Hell's Kitchen, steak and Coco

To avoid any silly queues Toni and I headed out early this morning to go to Sainsburys to get in some food supplies for dinner tonight and tomorrow. There were very few people about which was lovely. Before heading home we popped in to Miggi's for a cuppa and a lovely breakfast.

We brought home some food for Sam and then watched the first episode of Season 19 of Hell's Kitchen. We've been waiting ages for this to air again so were delighted to find it has now started.

I then had two take brief time out to some work which thankfully didn't take too long.

Cups of tea, billtong and Four In A Bed helped the afternoon pass in a relaxing manner.

Sam make steak and chips for dinner and we watched Coco on day twenty four of our Halloween Countdown. 

Baking, Doro, Warlock, reading, Scorpions and Four In A Bed

Up at 8am this morning and straight to the kitchen to whip up this weeks batch of gluten free keto rolls for Toni with Doro and Warlock blasting in my AirPods. I seem to have got my new recipe down to a fine art so let's see how these ones turn out. If these are also a success I might look at sharing the new recipe and steps for making them.

After making a nice cup of coffee I then settled down to reading more of the Star Wars novel A Crash Of Fate while listening to more Doro and Warlock. I really don't make enough time for reading and this is something I should try and rectify.

Simple breakfast of fried egg rolls set us up for a round of Four In A Bed.

Rock video continued following yesterday and today it was Scorpions Moment Of Glory.

It was then back to more Four In A Bed just because!

Early work, Miggi's, nap, Doro, Ghostbusters and Four In A Bed

No rest for the wicked and it was up early this morning to do some work (following on from also having to work last night as well). Thankfully it didn't take me too long to complete things. 

After the work Toni and I jumped in the car and headed out to Miggi's for a lovely breakfast (Sam stayed at home as he was 'cream crackered' after gaming all night LO). It was quite nice to experience the outside world for a short time as I don't get out much these days. That's me done for another couple of weeks now LMFAO.

We returned with a take out breakfast for Sam and then settled down and watch some cat and dog silliness on Youtube. I then proceeded to start falling asleep so went upstairs for nap. I woke up a couple of hours later feeling very refreshed but also slightly confused and out of place. It was all good though.

Spent the afternoon watching Doro - Strong And Proud (30 Years Of Rock And Metal). I first saw Doro Pesch when she was in Warlock at the Wardour Street Marquee Club on the 25th September 1985! I've seen her many times since then and she still puts on an amazing show.

Day seventeen of the Halloween countdown was brought to you by the 1984 classic Ghostbusters. Doesn't really any introduction now does it? LOL

A cup of tea and Four In A Bed rounded things off quite nicely.

Better day, Swedish Hockey League, Young Frankenstein and Four In A Bed

I am pleased to report that today was much better than yesterday. It was very positive and good things were achieved. Things were learned and improvements were made. This I can handle. Music today was provided by The Struts, Engelsstaun and The Dogs D'Amour. I also checked out the new album from Motley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee titled Andro. This was NOT what i had expected. This was not a rock album but a great pop/rap outing. I actually quite enjoyed it.

Exploring the wonders of our new Virgin Media TV box we watched a recording of a Swedish Hockey League game from last night between Linkoping and Djugarden. It's not the NHL but great to be able to watch more ice hockey.

Halloween countdown day sixteen came courtesy of Young Frankenstein, a Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks classic.

There wolf. There castle...... Marty Feldman!

In what is becoming an end of night ritual we were back to Four In A Bed.

What a day! Dark Shadows and Four In A Bed

What a day! Can't really express how I feel about it without breaking into hundreds of expletives!  I am just glad that it is now over so I can relax for a bit. The positive spin on the day was Schwarzer Engel and Blutengel for musical accompaniment,

Day fifteen of Halloween countdown was still in Johnny Depp territory with the criminally underrated Dark Shadows. 

Four In A Bed completed the chill out with a nice cup of tea. Here's hoping tomorrow is a more calm day.

Stressful day, Frankenweenie and Four In A Bed

Today was somewhat stressful. It just seemed to be one thing after another, escalations, problems and so on. I hate days like this as it just means I am just doing management stuff and  don't get to do any real work!

There was some more gothic musical accompaniment today but that was mostly interrupted by a lot of calls and meetings.

On a positive note we had our annual gas inspection today and everything was good so that was a relief.

Day fourteen of the Halloween countdown was back in Tim Burton animation territory, this time in the form of Frankenweenie.

The chill out zone was reached through the power of Four In A Bed! Huzzaf for car crash TV!

Good day, gothic rock, The Corpse Bride and Four In A Bed

It was a good day today. No major disasters following four client migrations and a major upgrade to a key system. The dry ice was in full effect today as I worked to a gothic rock playlist. Too many artists to mention but all the big names were there (Sisters, Mission, Fields etc) plus some more obscure acts.

Day twelve of the Halloween countdown came in the form of The Corpse Bride.  Another Tim Burton masterpiece.

We finished the day off with some Four In A Bed,