Sarah Eddie

Growing up in Saudi, the only English language programming I remember until we got Satellite telly in the early 90s was Full House, America's Funniest Home Videos and Sesame Street. Probably the only things that would pass the censors 🤣.

Atmospheric mist lingering over the Forth today

The way The Detectorists shows the passage of artefacts through time really gets under my skin

The heist task in Taskmaster this week has me wondering... did Alex Horne rob the Louvre?

I also saw mounted police heading down the road on the way home which is how I learned there's a football match on tonight.

Took my cat for her yearly health check so she's now finding it necessary to groom every inch of herself to remove the smell of vet. She got her tea as soon as we got home so I think I've been quickly forgiven.

It was a beautiful day on Friday and I had a day off so I went and walked round a loch

a cat is sitting in front of a laptop computer . ALT: a cat is sitting in front of a laptop computer .

My email just asked for two factor authentication for no reason at all

This is shaping up to be one of those weeks where absolutely everything is a complete bloody faff. I always feel bad if I don't use holiday days constructively but at the moment I honestly just feel like wrapping myself in a blanket tomorrow and playing Tomb Raider all day.

Communion (1989) ⭐ 5.5 | Biography, Drama, Horror 1h 47m | R

I watched this oddity last night and 24 hours later am still baffled by it:

www.imdb.com/title/tt0097...

Your daughter made me smile on a dank, dreary Wednesday. There's been quite a bit in the news about there being a reading crisis in the UK among children and adults so it's fantastic listening to book lovers, even when they're on the other side of the Ocean

I think hearing juvenile gulls constantly whinging might actually be more annoying than being dive bombed by their parents

I can't claim that one, my conductor pointed it out when we played the concerto a few years ago.

YouTube video by Benguitar90 Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back - Han Solo and the Princess (Love Theme)

Wasn't what I was thinking of but I can hear the similarity. It puts me more in mind of this (from about 15 seconds in): www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hg-...

What else?

Yes!!

YouTube video by Classical Vault 1 Joshua Bell - Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35

3. This one's tricky, play from 6 minutes 10 to around 7 minutes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbJZ...

YouTube video by Sony Classical Vienna Philharmonic – Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 ‘From the New World’, IV. Allegro con fuoco

2. Play the first 15 seconds (or the whole thing, it's a banger): www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGdt...

YouTube video by André Rieu André Rieu - O Fortuna (Carmina Burana - Carl Orff)

Finally, I have a wee quiz for you. Here's some classical pieces that may have been some influence on Williams. Guess the movie! 1 (play from the beginning): www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJC-...

Personally, I'm definitely more a fan of the more wacky Williams stuff, like the Catch Me If You Can title sequence and the Knight Bus music in Prisoner of Azkaban. I love the throne room track in A New Hope as well, because of the extra stuff the brass is doing under the main theme.

This has turned into a thread (apologies). I play in an amateur orcehstra, and whever we do a film concert there's always some John Williams in there and it always makes us nervous because it is difficult. Hedwig's theme in particular just about broke us all in the string section.

It's taken me this long to get onto the Dr Who Eurovision episode and I'm genuinely curious whether people who don't live the UK have any idea who Rylan is.

Apparently it's international cat day so here is my cat. No wonder I've always been cat daft, it falls the day after my birthday.

Today I've learned that Mrs Brown's Boys has done a crossover film with Tyler Perry's Madea character. I do not care overly much for either of these individually but this sounds wild enough that I might have to give it a go

Today I have crossed The Shining off in my list of films I really should have seen already

Watching the Live Aid anniversary on BBC and idly thinking about what I would have been watching a 40 retrospective of when I was a child. Just realised it would have been World War 2...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe A worldwide bestseller and the first part of Achebe's African Trilogy, Things Fall Apart is the c...

I can't believe this was written in the '50s, it feels so fresh. First time in ages I've read the first book in a series where I want to read on

app.thestorygraph.com/books/93aea1...

I guessed a lot of the twists, although still had some surprises and have notes on the geography but Department Q was excellent. Really engaging characters, I hope we get to spend more time with them.

Peter Capaldi joins Franz Ferdinand for 'Take Me Out' at Glastonbury 2025 Franz Ferdinand took over the Other Stage on day one of Glastonbury 2025 – here's everything the band played.

I'm delighted, but not surprised that Peter Capaldi's rocked up with Franz Ferdinand at Glansonbury.

www.nme.com/news/music/p...

@jamescdyer.bsky.social @boydhilton.bsky.social @kayrib23.bsky.social listening to today's Pilot+ and I have to say I'm less thrown by the bad background in the Department Q driving scene than by the fact there's no traffic on the Bridge. No matter the time, there is a jam from Edinburgh to Fife