16th June, 2019.
I have to confess two things.
Firstly?
I’ve got Spotify’s Ambient rain playlist on, at the moment.
It’s …
Well, with a window open, it’s relaxing.
And not quite as distracting as having Radio Four on.
Strange, I know.
But true.
~≈†≈~
The other confession?
A week or two ago, I had to go into Basildon Hospital: to pick up a gadget I had to wear, overnight, to monitor my blood oxygen levels.
Apparently?
The tests were inconclusive: and I have to do it all over again.
Yep: once more to sunny Basildon, twice in a row.
Ho …
Hum … !
The annoying thing is that I’ve had no letter confirming the appointment.
I’m going to be on the phone, tomorrow.
~≈†≈~
The one consolation, in all this … ?
Is that with videos prepped, jobhunting done, and no laundry needing doing?
It was time to catch some TV.
I’ve been missing Alonso and the gang … !
~≈†≈~
Episode 12 — Contratiempos/Setbacks — opens in 1976.
With the key committee that’s selecting the candidates for the post of Spain’s first post-Franco Prime Minister.
The man who should be transitional PM, who will eventually be democratically confirmed as such, is Adolfo Suárez …
The problem, there … ?
Is that someone rigs the selection process: leaving Angustias (Francesca Piñón) to break the bad news to Salvador (Jaime Blanch.)
There’s only one problem.
Alonso … gets shot by Pacino.
The mission … is looking tough …
~≈†≈~
Now …
Shooting Alonso halfway through the sodding episode … ?
Granted, that only lasted until the end of the episode: but certainly caught my attention.
El Ministerio del Tiempo certainly likes upping its dramatic stakes.
It’s gives us a pivotal scene from history — Suárez’s becoming PM*† — and builds one heck of a story around it: and throws in an entertaining story … and one hell of a drama.
Roll on episode 13 … !
* It mildly confused me, when I first came across the word: but, apparently, the Spanish term for prime minister is presidente. Apparently, it’s a contraction of the full Spanish term, Presidente del Gobierno de España: President of the goverment. To me, it sounds like Chair could be a more appropriate term. But what do I know?
† Knowing, as I did, that Franco died in late ’75? I realised almost immediately that Suárez was a key figure in the transition from the Franco regime’s control of Spain.
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