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[personal profile] sovay  alerted me to the existence of a tv adaptation of one of H. C. Bailey’s Reggie Fortune stories, with Denholm Elliott in the lead.

Five minutes in and he’s definitely got down Fortune’s perpetual annoyance at getting dragged into crime investigations when he’d much rather be having breakfast and doing normal things.

ETA— he looks so doleful. C’mon, Inspector Bell, let him have some breakfast!

Further ETA—the intense longing with which he looks at that piece of cake.
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Went to a yard sale on Saturday-- actually a parking-lot sale, held by an apartment in my neighbourhood. Going by some of the garments and knickknacks on offer, there are at least two goth households in that tower. That’s entirely apart from the old lady with a British accent and a noticeable dent in her forehead who sold me a peasant-y shift dress in a coarse white linen fabric. The whole thing looked as though it had last been worn at a pagan ritual in 1977. When I got it home and washed it I found the tag inside that read Zara, so it’s probably not haunted or anything.

I had Monday booked as a vacation day, so Sunday evening I, uh, got high and watched the 1968 tv adaptation of Dracula. Which [personal profile] thisbluespirit posted about a year or so back because of James Maxwell being in the cast as Dr. Seward.

Anyway, here’s my record of the watch, as reconstituted from my Tumblr posts:

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