gingerjon

Can really recommend GIMP to anyone who hasn't come across it before.

Given she was reading it out she might have just been avoiding any confusion with weighed and mishearing it as 'weigh no more'.

Star Trek Discovery is now in full on batsit mode. I mean, it's enjoyable and Michael Burnham still is ... watchable ... but we have now burnt all the bridges, danced on the ashes, built some new bridges out of firey mushrooms, burnt those and then performed an Irish jig whilst throwing new bridges made of sparklers into the air.

That's a full-on WHOA from me ...

... for now.

Not posting this because I think it's a work of towering artistic genius, although obviously it is. But just to pause and marvel that everything to do with this photo was handled *by my phone*. It was taken using the standard iPhone camera, then slightly tweaked (horizon and cropping) using the camera's own editor, then it was opened in BlackCam (paid for app at £2.99) where a standard template converted it to monochrome which I then edited using sliders. Photo was then saved to the phone (and backed up at the same time to OneDrive and iCloud) and, lastly, uploaded to Flickr. The whole process took less then five minutes.

I'm sure you will all be disappointed to learn I did not go to Westfield. Instead I saw Hastings beat Molesey 3-0.

I may go to see Westfield this afternoon. There are several teams called Westfield or Westfields but this is the one just outside Hastings. Their pitch is too small and any balls hit too high at one end cause problems on the A28, their ground burnt down so the clubhouse is a cargo container, and they can no longer be promoted as the rules in their league changed and they don't even meet the requirements at a basic level for the division above. They have plans and costings for a new ground over the road but council obstruction and usual nonsense means it's unlikely ever to be anything more than a nice drawing. But it is a great place to go. And here's a splendid photo essay about them from a year or so ago. (And that whole site is worth looking at.)

It's on CBS in the States isn't it? Hence why the episodes are weekly? Like I say, I am enjoying it but I can really see why others aren't, not least those who (rightly) wanted another Star Trek series.

I think we're several turns away from knowing who really is the baddest bad guy.

Leeds have reopened the consultation about the badge.

I’m really enjoying it. It is absolutely bonkers. It’s not really Star Trek though is it?

The End of the ***ing World, now on Netflix but previously on Channel 4/All4, is comfortably one of the best TV series I've ever seen.

Twelve Days of Christine is my personal favourite.

McDonalds does genuinely do the best basic coffee of any of the chains. Or at least in the UK it does. I imagine it varies country to country.

If you get your pleasure fiddling with your green beans I'll not judge you.

It isn't nice. The only time I have Starbucks these days is if I'm in need of a caffeine refuel at a motorway service station. I was given a coffee pod machine for Christmas. Having now rid myself of the awful Dolce Gusto own brand stuff I can now heartily recommend the ones you get via the Real Coffee Company. They appear to be recyclable too. A whole other rant is WHY AREN'T COFFEE PODS RECYCLABLE YOU MORONS.

That's closer to Frank than his actual name.

Americano is a black coffee. If you're asking for a white Americano then you are lucky that nobody has hit you over the head and sent you to a correctional facility. Mrs Ginger's boss is not called Frank or anything like Frank. They have a Starbucks just below their office. All the staff in there call him Frank because the first time he went in there the person decided he was called Frank despite him giving his Not Frank name. The second day a different person did the same thing. He has now given up. To the people in that Starbucks he is Frank.

Only 4 episodes. I'd assumed more. I shall manfully stick with it to the end then.

Someone on here recommended The Indian Detective? I'm 2.5 episodes in and if it wasn't the very attractiveness of the female co-star it would have been binned already. It's getting close. Any reason to stick with it?

I know it's oft-repeated but it is 100% true: you can judge a person by how they treat the people who 'serve' them whether that's in a restaurant, a bar or a shop.

Well, the Guardian managed to give away the twist to Season 1 of The Good Place in a single line recommendation to watch it (morons) but, despite that, that really was good fun. After a suitable pause of a few hours I shall move on to Season 2.

I certainly found the opening section very hard going.

There's a lot of dullness in the first forty minutes but once it hits its stride I think it's not bad at all. Nowhere near as good as Rogue One but then no other SW film is either. Little Ginger and Tiny Ginger both loved it. And, to be honest, it's clearly more for them than me.