Tried to do some shopping, but had extraordinary difficult in finding a nice, simple, non-fitted underblanket. It seems that such things no longer exist. I really don't want a fitted one as I know from bitter experience that they don't stay that way - a bit of turning in the night and it gets pulled into a rumpled and uncomfortable mess in the middle. I ended up finding something that encloses the entire mattress, albeit with little more than a thick sheet. An old double blanket put on the wrong way could at least be tucked in fairly well at the sides, although not at all at the ends. To finish off, an over-sized flat sheet which I can tuck over a foot of on all four sides. Hopefully this will be a little more resistant to my nocturnal movements.
I was hoping to get a bit of general tidying up done in preparation of
hermorrine's visit next weekend, but unfortunately my current book reached the critical point where I could no longer stop reading, so there went the rest of the afternoon. *sigh* I'll just need to get busy the next few evenings.Oh and today's brief review: Buffy 5x22 - The Gift
The finalé of Buffy's fifth season has Joss Whedon once again pulling out all the stops to take us on an emotional rollercoaster. All the characters - and indeed actors - get their chance to shine as humour, drama and tragedy are effortlessly blended together. It's a shining example of what you can do when you have a well established and interesting universe and characters - and are not afraid to shake things up. The closing minutes are as good an example of how to rend the hearts of your audience as you can ask for, and once again prove the incredible power of a simple monologue.
And then, having reduced us to blubbering, in the final moment Joss manages to get us to laugh through our tears. Genius.
