Munzy

I’ve got a couple of Steinharts in the watch box, they’ve very nicely made. I had the Ocean One when it first came out but sold it as it was too much like a Submariner and I loved it so much I found a great deal on a second hand one! I still have the Ocean One Vintage which is also nice on an old brown leather strap and the Ocean One Vintage Chrono which is inspired by the Paul Newman Daytona. You won’t be disappointed with the quality with a Steinhart.

How has The Godfather not been mentioned. I genuinely think every single shot is a masterpiece! For anyone that enjoyed it, check out The Offer. It is a recent dramatised series based on the making of the movie through all of the challenges the producers faced (run-ins with the Mob, issues with the studio, fights with the cast etc). A brilliant watch with loads of little nods to the movie and hidden gems for nerds like me!

£48 is a good shout based on my knowledge of BMW ownership over the years, however, Toyota… are parts cheaper? Probably… £28

Took the top off mine yesterday (Wiltshire)

Thought I’d ask just in case. Refreshing to hear a level-headed response from someone who has experienced it first hand 👍🏼 Have a great trip, I’ve travelled all over Spain but Andalucía for me is the most exciting region.

Any interest in bullfighting? I know a guy who works on a bull ranch just outside Sevilla, he can do a personal tour of the finca, see the bulls up close and have a tour of the farmhouse which doubles as a museum.

20 years ago. Every now and again I go back to a Windows machine for car diagnostics or some other reason and I cannot believe how slow and clunky it feels. I’ve never used virus protection on the two MacBooks I’ve had (one Pro and one Air) and never had an issue. Apple has nailed the backup and recovery thing too. My MacBook Air (10 years old) had a complete failure of the internal hard drive on Thursday. Ordered a new drive on Amazon (£45) which came the next day. Took the back off and removed the dead drive and slotted the new one in, formatted it, reinstalled the operating system and then it found my most recent backup of my old drive from our NAS and when I woke up this morning it was done. All my files back just as they were on Thursday as if nothing had happened. Would never go back to Windows.

Sounds great. Where are you staying? Let me know if you want any tips for restaurants or things to do. I spent a very happy few years in the quiet north east of the island. My son went to school there and my daughter was born there.

A bit of an adventure with the kids to Singapore, Bali and Lombok, and then a little later in the year a week in the Dordogne.

You misunderstood me; I meant what opportunities exist for us now we are outside the EU? It is a big world with lots of business to be done, you’re absolutely right… so where are all these new exciting trade deals bringing in the big bucks? They haven’t materialised because the EU is a far more valuable customer around the world than the UK would be on its own. And as for what’s so bad now… I employ a large team of tradespeople of all sorts. Labour prices are through the roof along with material costs. Additional tariffs, import costs and a lack of foreign labour has driven prices up. I agree with both of those opportunities in theory… so why hasn’t it happened? Because those in Government continue to line their pockets and look after their friends instead. The EU also placed a cap on bankers’ bonuses… that can be lifted too now… hooray for the working man! Trickle down economics is another thing I believe works in theory but doesn’t in practice.

What specific opportunities do you think are out there? What I never properly considered is that nobody is going to want to jeopardise a lucrative trade deal with their biggest customer (the EU) by signing a deal with the UK. If you were running a business you wouldn’t upset your biggest customer by supplying their rival unless their rival was worth more. Did anyone hear about the trade agreement signed with Florida last week? It’s not worth the paper it’s written on. It says, “This is not an agreement to transact and neither party is committed to buying anything!”. The fact that this tosh is being promoted by Kemi Badenoch just shows what little Brexit benefits there are to shout about. So again… what opportunities actually exist for us out of the EU? *I voted Leave and wish I hadn’t. @Lloyd90 is right, Brexit has been a shambles. What I’m confused by is the couple of mentions about the lies from the Remain camp… the Leave campaign was far more misleading. Where are the trade deals? Where is the £350m each week we have saved?

I’ve seen it Scully. It was worth a watch, quite thought provoking and something a bit different. I laughed out loud at Barbie’s final line!

The Excorcist is really unnerving, it terrified me as a kid when I saw it and still gives me the creeps now. The pea soup vomit and spinning heads are silly these days but it’s the less obvious bits that still get me. The weird start in the Middle East with the disorientating music, Arabic call to prayer and the flashes of dogs fighting in the desert. The split-second flashes of the devil with no context throughout the movie leaving you wondering if you had imagined it. The young priest’s mother in the asylum. The ice-cold bedroom and vulnerable little girl. And of course Tubular Bells - that and the Jaws theme are so powerful they get an instant reaction as soon as I hear them. Another I’ve just remembered which blew me away at the time was The Blair Witch Project. The internet had just become popular and they released this film with loads of fake “local news” websites which told the backstory of the Blair Witch legend. It was early days for search engines and so researching the Blair Witch inevitably landed you on a blog or community site which was completely fake but told of the rumours of witchcraft and the disappearance of some young people. The marketing was so innovative I remember going into the cinema thinking it actually was a true story. The way the movie was produced was again so different and visceral it felt like I was watching a snuff movie showing the actual final moments of the people in it. I remember being very scared watching it despite being in the middle of a packed cinema.

Don’t Look Now Rosemary’s Baby The Exorcist Straw Dogs (the original, not supernatural but very unnerving) The Wicker Man Kill List (brilliant!) Scream Seven (also not supernatural but great!)

Really enjoying it. That builder with the beard looks like he’ll be there until the end.