Really Hard Work

Just spent three hours watching Hamlet on BBC2 - and I'm absolutely shattered.  It was really hard going and I had to concentrate very hard.  I nearly gave up about 15 minutes in, but stuck with it.  Well, after my first glimpse of the lovely David Tennant I was pretty much hooked. Mind you, it's not altered my view of Shakespeare - I still find his work as difficult as ever.

Had a busy day yesterday - we were supposed to be going to my Mother in Law's for Christmas dinner, but she rang at 12 noon to say that her oven wasn't working so she couldn't cook the turkey - so could she send it across for us to cook!!  So my brother in law drove it over (15 mins drive) and we put it in the oven for 2 hours.  Mind you the time was well spent because he had a look at our unbelievably slow PC and managed to diagnose what was wrong with it.  It turns out that it was really under specd when we bought it and there wasn't enough memory to run things properly.  So if we buy some new memory it will improve things a great deal.  That's saved us having to buy a new PC.  

Anyway, the turkey got cooked, we drove it to MiL's house and had lunch - a little later than planned.  Pete and I had a bit of a time pressure because we'd got two other places to visit later in the day and an hour's drive to get there.  Still it all came together in the end and we managed to visit Pete's sister and spend some time with my parents and my sister and her partner, which was nice.