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I shouldn't really be all chuffed about having walked over to SND's and down the alleyway to check the vent, with just my staff to hold onto, but I did and I am. I've known for a while that I really need to start walking outside without the walker, but it's always easier, not to mention less painful, with. Must also go back to massage because the pain is from lower back and hip flexors rather than knees. And shall do when this cruel war is over.

Otherwise have finished rereading Four Roads Cross and Full Fathom Five, and will start again on Ruin of Angels. I want that one in a trade paperback buf it doesn't come in trade paperback so must beaver through the bitsy-feeling print of the pocketbook size.

Reread also Good Omens, Pratchetty enough, though from the little I know, I think the TV series may have been better.

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I don't always like TV adaptations of novels I've enjoyed, but I did think that they did Good Omens well. It helped that it's been years since I read the book.

After seeing clips of the series, I was surprised how little interaction there was between Aziraphale and Crowley. I'd watch it if it wasn't amazon and certainly if I could get subtitles, because my ear can no longer parse English (and Scottish, is it?) accents.

I seem to remember that David Tenant was using his English accent. Michael Sheen definitely was. His natural accent is Welsh.

It was all triple-speed syllable-swallowing britspeak to my unattuned ear.

We're now at that age when the subtitles are always on (plus husband is hard of hearing and I have birds-screaming-inna-tree tinnitus). Boy, subtitles have sunk in quality the past few years.

I've run across the quality shrink myself on the occasional youtube video. Presumably the PTB don't think it worthwhile catering to either an aging or a foreign population.

Last time I visited the US, it took me quite a while to realise that some people had difficulty understanding my accent. Considering that I'm normally thought of as someone who speaks very clearly, this was a puzzle. I very much doubt that I'll ever visit the US again, but I had decided that if I did, I would learn to do an American accent. Just like I'd learn a bit of a foreign language before travelling to another country.

Of course we get so many US TV shows that British people are very familiar with a variety of American accents so we don't have the same problem in reverse.

I was at a fan convention in Los Angeles some 30 years ago when the TV series Due South was big, the one about the Mountie in Chicago. Mentioned it to someone there and her response was, basically, What? So I said it again: Due South. Blank. Considered, said Doo Sow-th. Then she got it.

British and Brit-inflected vowels like my own don't exist in most American dialects.

Good Omens the book was always a bit too Gaiman-heavy for me, even before the ugly revelations. We did enjoy the FIRST season of the show (not the second, I won't be watching the finale).

I sorta noticed the trademark Gaiman love of violence this time around. Odd that he was involved in the first, rather sweet, season. Or maybe that was selective clip-viewing on my part.

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