Last night I watched 'Final Destination 3' , which I bought yesterday for £2 in woolworths : Superbly ingeniously suspenseful , and every bit as good as the first one .
That must be about 4 years old I think and a fine  picture quality on the disc , not so on the 2007 'final cut' of Blade Runner which I tried to sit through  the other day ;
When dvd's were new I definitely noticed a deterioration in the picture quality of some films being released on videotape , as if that was a deliberate ploy by the film studio's  to nudge us towards upgrading to dvd's , and I just wonder if some of them are now reducing the picture quality on standard dvd's to prod us into upgrading to hd-blu-ray players and discs - particularly since inside that 2007 blade runner edition dvd case was a leaflet about the wonders of HD discs .
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Re. yesterday's 'petrol set to hit £5 a gallon' headlines , I'm old enough to remember the shock-horror about petrol reaching 50p a gallon !
Throughout the 70's my Mum and Dad and I lived in Kings Langley , hertfordshire , and I still dream of being back there .
And of my leaving loads of stuff behind at various places , as I had to when I moved from my flat in Norwich to here .
I fairly regularly become plagued by depression , exasperation , hopelessness etc . , though usually soon enough settle back into a limited contentedness , and , we're all on a journey with only one ending so we may as well try to count our blessings and make the most of our lives so far as we're able to , although I do fear being alone if I've still not found another girlfriend , partner or wife by the time that my Mum's no longer alive ( she is well ) , assuming I'm still around then .
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Whilst looking up something else in the dictionairy I stumbled across :
' only pretty Fanny's way ' , meaning 'only what must be expected and accepted of the person' , attributed to T  Parnell , presumably the Parnell who there's a statue of in Dublin ?