Day 814

Aka Wednesday 24^th April 2019

Feeling more settled in work and it’s all becoming everyday and normal…

…when I popped out for lunch, I also picked up a copy of ‘Valkyrie’, because it’s practically the only film written by Christopher McQuarrie that I haven’t seen. And it’s a great film, a superb cast (Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Terence Stamp, Tom Wilkinson, Carice van Houten, Kevin McNally, Eddie Izzard, Halina Reijn and Tom Hollander and more!) that looks beautiful, from the direction, costumes to sets/scenery. Gives a real sense of how some/many Germans viewed Hitler and how close they came too toppling him. If it wasn’t for a bit of bad luck and lack of nerve among some of the conspirators, they could have taken out Hitler and really changed how WWII ended (and the subsequent course of European history). If they had succeeded would Germany have been divided up, would there have been a Berlin Wall, an European Union, how would the Cold War have gone? 8/10.

…when I got home the postie and been and delivered these New Comic Book Day gems (from last week):

…and I did the G2 Crossword:

…which reversed things and was a flyer, as I only had to cheat on one of the 23 clues, if I’d gone for ‘dull-witted’ instead of ‘bull-headed’ it would have been a clean sweep. The little grey cells must have had enough of a rest and be back to almost full strength (or this was an easier crossword!).