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[raven]

They were little angels. I'm serious. They were asleep when I got there, and they were asleep when I left, with nothing in between. Not a word/cough/sniffle out of either of them. And I like kids when they're asleep. Parents were all panicky, got home by ten fifteen, frightened something had happened, but nothing did. And they paid me £10 when I would have worked for free, and besides, I didn't work. I did absolutely nothing.

No, not nothing. I read the newspaper, made some notes for those New Deal questions, even started learning it. I texted chanandlerbong, who is going to Cardiff tomorrow, and then I flicked on the television, heard the opening notes of Danse Macabre, and suddenly started feeling very happy. I'm sure that wasn't the effect Saint-Saens was going for with that piece, not with Death and his violin and all, but no, it meant I got to watch Jonathan Creek tonight. I love the show. There's alwaysa grisly murder, and a surreal subplot. The subplot tonight involved an old lady, choked by a crustacean on a date with Adam Klaus, followed by a streaker at the magic show, who is so successful they sign him so he'll do it every night, and then Jonathan gets pissed off and throws him out, so he streaks at the old lady's funeral. Oddly, there were no conviently placed chairs/lampshades/planks when the guy was streaking. Ewww. And the main mystery was good too.

And now I'm home. Productive night, all told.

Comments

[purplerainbow.livejournal.com]

I watched Jonathan Creek too. Well, some of it.
I love Danse Macabre, it stays in my head for ages.
Now, however, I have the theme from The Great Escape in my head, because it was played at the end of an Only Fools and Horses episode that we watched straight after Jonathan Creek.
Ah, I love classic British TV.

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[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Ah, me too!
Haven't seen Only Fools and Horses for ages, but I've seen every episode, I'm that pathetic.
Wonder if you can download Danse Macabre? I may just try that...

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[purplerainbow.livejournal.com]

Yes, I love it, especially the older ones. I doubt I've seen every episode, though...
I was actually considering downloading it too!
I wonder...

[cucharita.livejournal.com]

I like Jonathan Creek. Not seen it in an age. I like trying to work out how they happened.
Two episodes stick out in my head. One where some guy jumps off a balcony onto concrete whilst drunk at a party. They then find out he faked his death. But the reason I remember that is because there's a bit in the graveyard that reminds me of the concrete he landed on. There's a square of concrete ish and you can look down on it if you go up the hill//ramp bit.

And the other one where I actually got scared by it. Where they find the guy locked up in some celler room and the door is blocked by a big chest and when they remove the chest they find his fingers under the door even though that would have meant that he climbed up a load of stairs when he was dead.

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[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I remember the faked death one vaguely. Was that the one with the skeleton costume?

And oh, god, the cellar one - that scared the hell out of me. Specially as his corpse was all yellow...

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[cucharita.livejournal.com]

I don't remember. I think it involved someone being stubbed with a cigarette during sex and then being made to think he had been shot and survived the bullet going through him. But I'm not sure. That could have been a different episode.