The Man in the High Castle — Series 4 Episodes 10: Episode 10 Fire from the Gods — A Review

14th December, 2019.

Yes: it’s officially Saturday night.

With little in the way of cash.

Which, unfortunately?   Is the perils of unemployment.

You have plenty of time to do whatever you want … 

But no actual cash to do it with.

Frankly?

That means a cheap night in, watching TV.

Yes: you’re right: I watched the last episode of The Man in the High Castle.

Hmmm … 

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The Man in the High Castle — Series 4 Episodes 9: Episode 9 For Want of a Nail — A Review

8th December, 2019.

Yes: it’s officially official: I am back at the course, tomorrow.

I’m job hunting, at the moment: and, if you’ve been following me for a while?

You’ll know I’m on a short course designed to improve my employment prospects.

I’m back there, tomorrow: and looking forward to it: as it gets me out of the house.

The real killer?

We have laptops … and our tutor’s decided to get mice for them.

Little things mean a lot.

~≈Î≈~

At any rate … ?

It’s the Sunday night before I go back.

And frankly?

I want to go to bed early … but want to tell you about a TV show.

Yep: you’re right … I’ve seen the ninth episode of The Man in the High Castle’s fourth season.

~≈Î≈~

The Man in the High Castle — Series 4 Episodes 8: Hitler Has Only Got One Ball — A Review

7th December, 2019.

Yep: it’s Saturday evening!

And, if you read today’s Daily Teaser?

You’ll realise I had a few things planned.

Which I managed to get done.

Including sending the first batch of this year’s Christmas cards.

What it didn’t include … ?   Was the old fashioned green double decker that I managed to get on, to get to town.

A double decker bus complete with a driver, and a conductor: with one of those old fashioned ticket machines.

With the buttons and the handle?   Lord knows what they’re called … !

Either way?

It was nice to see.

~≈¥≈~

Either way … ?

Either way, I have to make a confession … ?

With nothing else to do, I made sure I watched a TV show.

Yes: you guessed it … The eighth episode of The Man in the High Castle fourth season … 

~≈¥≈~

The Man in the High Castle — Series 4 Episodes 7: No Masters But Ourselves — A Review

4th December, 2019.

*Spoilers*

Yes: it’s official.

My left shoulder aches!

And I think I know why.

I’m jobhunting at the moment: and doing a course that’s supposed to help us with interview technique, CV writing, what have you.

I’m left handed, so you know … and haven’t done this much handwriting in ages.

Which is what I think’s causing the issue … 

Writing in European scripts isn’t exactly what you call painless, if you’re a southpaw … 

At any rate … ?

It’s a Wednesday: one that, for various reasons, I’ve had off.

And I wanted to watch TV … 

To be more specific?

The next episode of series four of The Man in the High Castle … 

~≈Î≈~

The Man in the High Castle — Series 4 Episodes 6: All Serious Daring — A Review

1st December, 2019.

Right … 

I’ve a confession to make: I’ve finally cleaned my armchair.

It was getting a bit mucky.   To the point of serious comment …

Still … 

The cover’s been put through the wash: and looking better than it was.

But Lord … it took some time to wrestle that cover back on.

I’m grateful I did, though.

It meant I had something to sit on, watching more of The Man in the High Castle, season four … 

~≈¥≈~

The Man in the High Castle — Series 4 Episodes 5: Mauvaise Foi* — A Review

30th November, 2019.

I’m assuming — assuming, mind — that you’ve been following the news in the UK.

If you haven’t?

You’re possibly not aware of the attack that took place on London Bridge, yesterday.

A young man — and convicted terrorist — called Usman Khan murdered two people, and injured three others.

His actions?   And motives?   Have been discussed, since yesterday.

And radical Jihadi terrorism has been blamed.

I had the news on, earlier.

According to Khan’s lawyer?   He asked for help being de-radicalised, whilst in prison.

And was refused.

Refused help that could have prevented two people’s deaths.

Granted?   The man got out, and committed two murders whilst wearing the (fake) bomb vest that got him shot.

But … ?

A decision maker in the prison service made the wrong decision: and shares  some of the responsibility for those deaths.

~≈Ü≈~

At any rate?

It’s a quiet Saturday night.

And, with little else to do … ?

I watched TV … 

And, yes: you’re right: it’s another episode from The Man in the High Castle’s fourth season … 

~≈Ü≈~

The Man in the High Castle — Series 4 Episodes 4: Happy Trails — A Review

28th November, 2019.

*Spoilers*

Right then … 

I’m officially … on the a course … 

I’m jobhunting, at the moment.   Just in case you didn’t know.

As such?   I have to do so many hours jobhunting, each day.

And, if required to?   Have to do whatever else the Job Centre thinks will be helpful for me to do.

Which reminds me: looking up an ECDL course, a European Computer Drivers License, could come in handy.

At ANY rate … ?

I’ve been places on a course that Covers a lot of different territory: including Customer Services, and Some basic IT, and presentational, skills.

Three weeks worth of course.

Here’s hoping it helps.

~≈†≈~

At any rate … ?

At any rate, I’ve had my 8 year old nephew, over, today.

Who’s now headed home: have had his weekly dose of Slogoman and Jelly!

They’re YouTubers, before you ask!

That means I know have my TV back: and can settle down to something I’d like to see.

Yep: episode 4 of The Man in the High Castle’s fourth season.

Ahem … !

~≈†≈~

The Man in the High Castle — Series 4 Episodes 3: The Box — A Review

23rd November, 2019.

OK … 

It’s true: I’ve caught some TV, tonight.

In possibly more ways than one.

Firstly?

The officially official trailer for Dr Who’s twelfth series is now out.

And it looks rather good.

Especially if you saw that Cyberman, too!

~≈†≈~

I also have to admit … I’ve signed up for Apple’s Apple Arcade: its game streaming service.

It seems cheap enough: and there’s a lot of games on there that seem the sort of thing I’d go for.

I have to say, thought: there’s one game on there: called Marble It Up: Mayhem!

You have to roll a marble around a 3d obstacle course.

It’s fantastic looking: and very enjoyable to play.

But?

The controls for the desktop — Mac — version are like this.

For a START?

Whoever ported the game across to the Apple Arcade, obviously didn’t know about the Mac’s one button mouse.

And W, S, A and D are fine keys for up, down, left and right.

If you’re right handed: and using the mouse in your right hand.

Guess which left hander tried it on the Mac, first … ?

Yep: Juggins, here … 

At least the version on the Apple TV … benefits from the game controller.

~≈†≈~

Talking to TV … ?

Talking of TV, I managed to catch some, tonight.

Yes: I’ve managed to catch episode 3, of The Man in the High Castle’s fourth season.

This is looking good.

~≈†≈~

The Man in the High Castle — Series 4 Episodes 2: Every Door Out… — A Review

21st November, 2019

Hmmm … 

I have to admit, I’m … 

Well, thinking all sorts of things.

I notice — for example — that Jeremy Corbyn’s announced that — should Labour get into government — they will scrap the Universal Credit benefit I’m on.

I’m thinking I couldn’t vote for them, giving that.

Partly?   Because they haven’t said what they’ll replace it with.

And partly because the change from Universal Credit to its replacement will come with the same sort of delays that happened with the change from Job Seeker’s Allowance to Universal Credit.

And from the old Unemployment Benefit to Jobseekers Allowance.

All of which saw delayed payments: at least to me.

And, I’m assuming, to others.

I’m ALSO very aware the Greens are planning what they call a Universal Basic Income of some £89 a week.

One that seemingly doesn’t include housing costs.

As someone planning to vote Green in this election … ?

That’s a concern … and also why I contacted the local Green candidate.

I’ll hear back from them, another time: but I’m … 

Well … 

Concerned … 

~≈¥≈~

At any rate … ?

It’s a Thursday … 

A Thursday where, frankly?

I felt I could go another episode of the fourth season of The Man in the High Castle.

I’m on the second episode … 

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