Mennnooootalot Continued

Last Thursday I told you where I was and what the town was like... but what exactly did I do with my August? As the titles have suggested, not a great deal! I took a couple of wanders along the prom in the very fine weather, but mostly I spent time processing all the photos from the recent road tripping and setting up the posts you were reading throughout that month. I didn't even lift a crochet hook.

Mainly, I was spending time binge-watching and listening to catch up on stuff that falls behind when I am on the road. 

Telly series, such as The Gone [4 *], Darby and Joan [3.5 *], Recipes For Love And Murder [4.5 *], Outrageous [3.5 *], Shardlake [3 *], Annika [4 *], Fake or Fortune [5 *]... to name a few! 

I had all my usual podcasts, but there are some new ones added since the last time I shared them with you.

Grace Dent's Comfort Eating. Those things you like to scoff when no one's looking.

Luke Lamana's Redacted. Some of it you know - or think you do...

The Spy Who... true tales of derring-do.

The Crime Agents. A crime reporter and a retired, high-ranking police officer debate and narrate policing in modern UK.

There have been a couple of other limited series as well, but because I've dropped the links on completion, I don't have them to share. Naughty YAM. 

One that is absolutely fun and binge-worthy, though, is Sherlock and Co. I have been working my way through all the series, and am now going to join up on that Patreon link, because they are that good!

Using the premise of podcasting as the 'diary' of Dr John Watson, we are introduced to a beautifully voiced Sherlock Holmes (actually, both actors are not dissimilar in tone to Cumberbatch and Freeman, if you watched those tele-films). The 'Mrs Hudson' character has a twist... and there's a dog. It is doing for the sleuthing classic in podcast format what Elementary did for the televisual Holmes and Watson adventures. Brilliant mayhem. I cannot recommend this one highly enough. 

To end this interim post (between road trips, that is), a wee video. I mentioned last week the foul weather that hit the Cowal coast... Mostly, Dunoon is reached via ferry. However, for many locals, the road route is just as busy and there is only one route in and out. It has been a source of local disgruntlement forever...