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I don't know what was up with LJ yesterday, but I couldn't get it to work at all.

We should be going to see The Eagle tonight, but I'm feeling knackered, and can't be bothered. There's a particularly large evil building that I've been avoiding for weeks - today I bit the bullet and started the assault. I found a plan, and lost count after 53 rooms. Today we managed to survey two of them. In addition to two more buildings, and a couple of portaloos which I was able to score off the list as modern and irrelevant.

It would have been an appropriate screening. A couple of weeks back, we bought the Hammer Film Collection for a very reasonable price. We've been wading through films, and enjoying them in a nostalgic, ironic way. Apart from The Nanny, which was brilliant, easily rivalling your average Hitchcock. But last night's film was truly dire. It was The Viking Queen, which seemed to be firmly set in Romano-British times, featuring what I assume was the Hammer interpretation of the Boudiccan revolt. Lots of chariots with scythed wheels, but not a horned helmet or blood-eagling session in sight!!

There were druids. They looked like they'd walked straight out of the Eisteddfod. They worshipped Zeus, and the King of the Iceni was called 'Priam'.

I was very confused indeed...

I've done a very naughty thing. I've ordered the complete Sibelius symphonies and tone poems on DVD. I haven't heard any Sibelius for years, and can't wait!! En Saga... Finlandia... The Karelia Suite... Oooohhh!!!

Not to mention the 2nd Symphony...