Trawling
the net for something else this evening, my daughter today came
across a 2010 report that Penguin Australia had printed a cook book
with the mother of all misprints in it - “salt and freshly ground
black people.”. The company got a big white mark for that.
Tonight
I saw the last hour of the 1970 epic, “Waterloo”, starring Rod
Steiger and Christopher Plummer, inter alia. It flopped at the box
office but I was rather impressed with the filming of the battle. I
assumed all the cavalry men belonged to the Polish army but they
turned out to be Russians. The ImdB web page has this to say this
about them:- Soldiers of the Red Army were
used as extras to portray the British army. They panicked repeatedly
and scattered during the filming of some of the cavalry charges.
Attempts to reassure them by marking the closest approach of the
horses with white tape similarly failed, and the scene was cut.
Finally
. . . There's one thing I'll miss about life here in the UK when I
return to Spanish roads on Thursday – drivers who make signals at
roundabouts and then do exactly what they've indicated they will. On
the other hand, life will be less predictable. Exciting, even.
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