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2015 - The Year of Thespianage. No 2: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
This year of spy movies continues. I've already covered Kingsman- The Secret Service and I now find myself at the latest entry in the Tom Cruise-revamped Mission: Impossible series of films.After the...
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Friday 21/8/2015 - New House, One Last Assignment, & This Week's Wristwatches.
Last Saturday was sunny! Spring is on its way and I can't wait. I was still wearing the Seamaster 300; Monday Much to do. Serious household admin tasks to be dealt with. I had to get the...
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Friday 28/8/2015 - Studies Are Done!, Happy Birthday Mr Connery!, Waiting for...
Right, it's 2:55pm, Friday afternoon where I am. Might as well get started.Last weekend Went and saw The Man From U.N.C.L.E with my son on Saturday morning. I quite enjoyed it,...
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Friday 4/9/2015 - New Carpet, New SPECTRE Poster & This Week's Wristwatch.
Last weekend saw me put the mesh bracelet onto the WatchCo Omega Seamaster 300. It makes for a pretty comfortable fit (old photo);This week has been a bit of a blur as we transition out of our old...
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Friday 11/9/2015 - The Bondwagon Starts Rolling, Between Two Houses & This...
- Friday, 3:33pm AEST -Everywhere I look, there is stuff all over the place. We have three more days left at this address before the removal van arrives, hopefully with two guys ready to do some heavy...
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Friday 18/9/15 - This Week's Been a Blur, But I Think I Wore Wristwatches.
I'm going to be brief here because I'm super-tired and whatever energy I have left needs to be used for my daughter's birthday. She's thirteen today! One phase of her life ends and another begins.Last...
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Friday 25/9/2015 - This House Is a Mess, The Cat's Going Screwy & This Week's...
- Friday 7:49pm AEST - Boxes as far as the eye can see. Every room has them. I forget what's even in half of them. Meanwhile, I don't know where half of my clothing is. Probably still packed away in...
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2015 - The Year of Thespianage No.3 - The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
This year's other reboot of a TV spy show from the '60s is Guy Ritchie's The Man From U.N.C.L.E. By 1965, Bondmania had secured its place in Pop Culture, thanks to the phenomenal success of Goldfinger...
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Friday 2/10/2015 - Curtains Call, Catching Up With Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin...
- Friday 8:20pm AEST -This week has been another blurry one. Much has been done as we slowly settle in to our new house. There are still plastic tubs of stuff scattered throughout every room as we...
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Friday 9/10/2015 - Bathroom Shelves, Wedding Anniversaries, Welcome Back, Mr....
Plenty to be done around here. There are fewer boxes scattered around the house this week as we continue to sort through them. I can see that I'll be writing quite a few eBay listings soon. Last...
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Friday 23/10/2015 - This is a Short One, Folks. Quick Typecast with This...
Ah, what the hell. While I'm here. Wore the Submariner early in the week;Switched over briefly to the Sinn 103 St Sa;And put on the Omega SM300 earlier today;Have a good one!
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Friday 30/10/2015 - Typecast; Rolex Woes, Photo Stealin' Joes, Volunteer Goes...
- Friday Afternoon - Sitting here waiting for the plumber to arrive. Might as well get this week's post underway. Back to the Seamaster 300 on NATO strap, which I might wear when I go see SPECTRE in a...
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Friday 6/11/2015 - Lost In Translation, One Bookshelf Done & This Week's...
POSTSCRIPT; the correct grammar is "an historic", not "a historic". I meant to correct that with a pen before I scanned it.And here's the bookshelf. Once I get a backboard on it, plus a couple of...
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Friday 27/11/2015 - The Volunteering Begins, SPECTRE Viewings, Tendonitis...
EDIT: I'm gonna pull a leaf out of Joe Van Cleave's book here and add some extra to this post. Makes a lot of sense if you typecast something on one day and feel the need to add something more. I wrote...
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Friday 4/12/2015 - My Head Is Pounding & This Week's Wristwatches.
This one will be brief, gang. But it has a few nice pics!I got a headache this afternoon and it just refuses to go away. However, since I was taking pictures of my watches this week, I figure I...
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2015- The Year of Thespianage No. 4 - SPECTRE - Deja Vu, Mr Bond.
And here we are, heading towards the end of a year which saw a noticeable resurgence in spy thrillers on the big screen. I had planned to do a write-up on the Melissa McCarthy espionage comedy, Spy,...
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Friday 18/12/2015 - So Long, You Mad Men, You & This Week's Wristwatch.
I still had the AquaTerra on my wrist. Can't remember the last time I wore the same watch for more than a few days.And here's Don Draper's wristwatch. Or rather, one of them. Over the course of the TV...
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Christmas Eve 2015 - High on Paint Fumes, Low on Tonic & This Week's...
It's now almost 7:00pm on Christmas Eve and it's ho, ho, hot here in Melbourne!Here's the Merkur safety razor that I got. The handle measures 100mm, making it a little easier to hold than my other...
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Thursday 31/12/2015 - One Bookshelf's Up, New Job Next Week, Happy New Year &...
Less than twelve hours left in 2015 and I, for one, will be glad that this year is over. Hasn't been an overly disastrous year, but it did have its fair share of stresses and trials. Still, I managed...
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My Most-Worn Watches of 2015.
1- Rolex Submariner (Ref. 5513), 1982After wanting a Rolex Submariner 5513 ever since I was a kid in the mid '70s, I finally managed to...
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