It

Last night I went out and saw It, based on the Stephen King novel.  I saw the two part miniseries adaptation from 1990 when I was about 15, and it was really my introduction to Stephen King, and I saw it several times.  I also read the book when I was 15, and I was on this massive King kick and buying pretty much everything I could find from him.  It is still one of my favorite Stephen King works.  The movie is good, and sticks fairly close to the book, although the setting is updated to 1989.  It's set in a small town in Maine (where else?), which is being terrorised by a string of mysterious disappearances of children.  Seven outcast kids band together to find out what is going on.  They soon learn that the culprit is a weird clown called Pennywise, which is just one manifestation of a hugely powerful, evil, shape-shifting entity, that the kids just call "It".

I saw the show with my friends Alan and Jackie, and we went out afterwards to Five Guys for some food.  I had a bacon cheeseburger and fries.  Then we had some drinks before heading home.

I went along to my parent's house today for lunch, which was fun.  When I got home I got the book I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist delivered.  I had pre-ordered it a few weeks ago.  Lindqvist is a Swedish horror writer, who is probably best known for Let the Right One In which was turned into a hugely successful Swedish movie, and was re-made in the US as Let Me In. 

I also got some writing done.

Drawing and Magazine

I went out to a shopping mall with my Dad. We started off at Starbucks, and I had a mocha and a chocolate swirl. I got a drawing pad, a notebook and a copy of Neo magazine (a magazine that specialises in reviews and features about manga, anime and related subjects).

We went along to my parent's house. The weather was so good today that we were able to go and sit outside for most of the afternoon.

Monty Python

Last night I watched a documentary called Monty Python - (Almost) the Truth: The BBC Lawyers Cut. It was about the history of the "Monty Python" comedy troupe, set up to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Monty Python's Flying Circus TV series. A lot of people go on about the six members really hating each other, when from what I've heard and read, they really got on pretty well. There were arguements about what sketches were or were not included in the series, Terry Jones apparently used to get frustrated about the technical limitations of the TV show, and John Cleese left at the end of the third season to do other things, but it just seemed to be what you would expect from a group of talented witers and performers who all had their own ideas. It was funny though. I'm quite a big Monty Python fan so I knew most of it already. I remember I was eleven when I first saw the show and I really didn't find it funny at all. I didn't get the humour and the animation sequences just completely freaked me out, but when I saw it again four years later I thought it was hilarious. I used to have the video game for the Amstrad as well. That was the funniest video game I have ever played. You had to go through this "Name the Cheese" mini-game to get to the main one, and then you played this character going around this world styled around the TV animation scenes searching for the four pieces of your brain, which had run off and split up. Along the way you had to eat cheese and defeat killer Keep Left signs and attacking dead parrots by shooting fish at them. Also when you least expected it, the Spanish Inquisition would show up to torture you with comfy chairs and soft cushions.

I watched the end of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy which was very good and surprisingly faithful to a very difficult book for a TV adaptation. It's the kind of show that probably wouldn't be made these days, because it is so sedately paced, so you need to give it time and patience to work.My parents had returned from holiday on Friday and so this morning my Dad came round and we went along to the Ocean Terminal shopping mall, where we had a muffin and coffee at Starbucks before going back to my parent's house. My Dad had to go away early because he had some Golf coaching to do. The latest issue of Sight and Sound magazine had arrived. There was a really interesting article in it about the recent wave of vampire movies. It actually gave me afew ideas for this year's NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). There was also an interesting article in one of the Sunday newspapers about Stanley Kubrick's unmade film about the life of Napolean, which he had managed to fill 88 boxes with thousands of pages of script, notes, designs and photographs for the film. Kubrick himself joked it was "the greatest film he never made." For lunch we had some sushi to start and then chicken and mashed potatoes in white wine sauce, followed by marshmallows in chocolate fondue.

After lunch, my Mum and I went out to town to look through the shops. I got some new posters and a graphic novel called The Sandman - Volume Seven: Brief Lives written by Neil Gaiman. Which means that I now have seven of the twelve main volumes in The Sandman graphic novel series.

I got home at around quarter past five and spent about an hour and a half putting up the new posters.

Special Features

Last night I was watching a movie of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, directed by Andrew Adamson and based on the novel by C.S. Lewis. It's the second film in the Narnia series, following The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The story revolves around the four kids from the first film in 1940s London, a year after their return from Narnia, who suddenly find themselves transported back there only to find that in Narnia one thousand years have passed and the country has been conquered by the brutal Telmarines. The kids join the Narnians as they try to restore the noble Prince Caspian (played by Ban Barnes) to the Telmarine throne. It was an entertaining enough film, with some pretty good special effects and action sequences.

Later on I was watching a Doctor Who story from 1973 called "The Time Warrior" on DVD. It was a pretty entertaining story that I had on video once.

This morning I was watching some special features on the DVD of 2001: A Space Odyssey. In particular a documentary on the making of the film and an interesting feature in which various scientists discuss what life on other planets may be like. It's an a mazing film that really stands up well today, even forty years later. The special effects are still really impressive.

I went along to my parents house for lunch today, as usual for a Sunday, so that was really good.

A Game of You

Last night I was reading the graphic novel of The Sandman: A Game of You written by Neil Gaiman. The story concerned a woman who used to dream about an elaborate Narnia-style fantasy world, however she has not dreamed about it for several years, until her dreamworld starts to invade her real life. It was another really good story, very well written with some really impressive artwork.

This morning I went along to my parent's house as usual for a Sunday. The latest issue of Sight and Sound magazine had arrived. This month's feature article was called "The Wild Bunch" which features profiles of fifty movie directors who "make films that are uncategorisable, in which cinematic language, taste and even reality itself are bent to their will". There was also a competition to win fifty movies on DVD from twenty-six of the directors profiled in the feature (that would be £800 worth of DVDs).

After lunch we all went along to Princes Street Gardens to listen to the free outdoor jazz concert that they have every year. It was pretty good.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Last night I was watching the first of a two part documentary called The Scandalous Adventures of Lord Byron hosted by actor Rupert Everett, in which he followed the footsteps of the legendary poet through Europe. It was pretty interesting and entertaining. Later on I watched an episode of The Wire.

I got to work early this morning, and managed to leave pretty early. I went along to the Cineworld cinema to meet up with my Mum. We were there to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, directed by David Yates. It's the sixth in the series of films adapted from the popular novels by JK Rowling about a teenage wizard studying magic and fighting evil forces. The film is pretty faithful to the book, and hugely entertaining.

After the movie I went along to my parent's house for something to eat, before heading back home.

Jekyll and Hyde

Last night was very quiet. I ended up falling asleep on my couch, and woke up at about half past four in the morning, when I got to bed.

I went along to my parent's house today instead of my usual Sunday visit. We got my groceries on the way, along with some sushi for lunch. After lunch I listened to a radio play version of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. The story is set in 19th Century London and involves a lawyer investigating the connection between his good friend, the quiet, respectable Dr Henry Jekyll and the violent, psychotic criminal Edward Hyde. It's pretty faithful to the book. Interestingly enough, the original pronounciation of Jekyll was "Jeek-el", instead of "Jeck-le" which is more commonly used. The idea was the title was supposed to be a pun on the game "Hide and Seek".

When I got home, as I was taking a box of nachos out of the bag, the bottom fell out sending cheese, salsa and sour cream all over my kitchen floor.

It's kind of fun when I go to my parent's house on the Saturday, because it means that I have the whole of the Sunday to do whatever I want, really.

The Corner

Last night I was listening to the second part of the radio adaptation of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, based on the novel by John le Carre. It was pretty good, and very faithful to the original book. I also finished reading The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighbourhood by David Simon and Ed Burns. It's a non-fiction book detailing a year that the authors spent following the lives of the residents of a tough inner-city area in Baltimore, in particular around a street corner which is one of may that are used as pretty much twenty four hour, open air drug markets. A large part of the book deals with a broken family of two drug-addicted adults and their fifteen year old son. The book also discusses the nature of drug addiction and the history and effects of the American drug trade and the resulting legislation in an inner-city area. It is a very good book, and very powerful. It was adapted into a six part miniseries for HBO, and Burns and Simon subsequently went on to create the TV series The Wire, which also deals with drugs in Baltimore.

Today I went along to my parent's house for lunch. The latest issue of Fortean Times had arrived, this month's main story was about an alleged UFO crash in Wales in 1974. Our lunch today was salmon, with peas and boiled potatoes followed with some more of my Mum's homemade raspberry ice-cream. Later on I listened to the third and final part of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.

The cold is a lot better now, which is good! I just really hope that this coming week is better than the last week has been.

The Russia House

Last night I finished reading The Russia House by John le Carre. The book was first published in 1989 and tells the story of Scott "Barley" Blair, an obscure British publisher, who is sent a couple of notebooks smuggled out of Moscow, which contain vital secrets about Soviet defence capabilities. The British Secret Service, who intercept the notebooks, need to find out whether the information is genuine and whether the author is genuine, a plant or a madman. The dishevelled, womanising, wise-cracking, jazz-loving, alcoholic Blair is far from the ideal spy but the Secret Service, reluctantly, decide to use him to travel to Moscow and contact the woman, Katya, who smuggled the notebooks. However, the spymasters don't plan on the pair falling in love. John le Carre, who was a British spy himself for many years, has made a career writing espionage thrillers which concnetrate far more on character than on action. The Russia House is certainly well-written with interesting and well-developed characters, and also a strong vein of humour. It is very much a product of it's time, the closing years of the Cold War. It was turned into a film in 1990 with Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer.

This morning Dad came to collect me and we went along to the Ocean Terminal shopping centre. We had a cheese scone and mocha coffee for breakfast. Then we split up. I bought the book Public Enemies by Bryan Burrough. It's a non-fiction book about the American gangsters and bank-robbers of the 1930s and the rise of the FBI. The recent film Public Enemies was based on the book. I know I should be saving, but I've been doing pretty well actually. Aside from this weekend, I've not bought any books or DVDs or video games for well over a month, and the books I bought this weekend were all on sale.

When we got to my parents house we had some chicken salad and boiled potatoes, followed by a strawberry tart and some home-made raspberry ice-cream, which was really nice. After discussing matters with my parents I have come up with a date to move to Canada. I plan to go over there on 10 March 2010. My Mum advised me to go along during the Spring because it would be easier to acclimatise to the weather before it got too cold. Also it provides time to get thing sorted out and arranged. I thought March would be the best time. The actual date was just one that I came up with. It makes it easier when I can think of an actual date set. It seems like a long time away, but it's really only eight months, and there is an awful lot to do. Then again you can't rush these things, and the time will soon pass.

Strange Dream

Last night I was watching a double-bill of Peep Show epsidoes on TV, and then I put on the DVD of a 1984 Doctor Who story called "Resurrection of the Daleks", but I fell asleep on my sofa about half way through.

I had a really weird dream last night where I was at work and the singer Sarah McLachlan was giving a concert in the office, but I was the only one that was paying any attention. It was a really strange dream, and I don't know what, if anything it actually means.

I went along to my parent's house for lunch today, it took about an hour to get there, because of the traffic. For lunch we had salmon, rice, chopped up spring onions and red peppers, with some strawberries and cream to finish. After lunch, my parents went out to look at flats - they're not thinking of moving anywhere, they just like to have a look, while I watched the episode of The Wire that I recorded during the week.

Season of Mists

Yesterday I read the graphic novel The Sandman: Season of Mists written by Neil Gaiman. The story revolved around Morpheus, Lord of Dreams, who thousands of years ago condemned a woman to Hell after she rejected him. Convinced by the rest of his immortal family, The Endless, that this was wrong, Morpheus travels to Hell to rescue her. However, Lucifer has not forgotten how Morpheus humiliated him in the past and is preparing his revenge. It was a really good story.

Last night I was watching The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan, in which Batman (played by Christian Bale) has to fight against master criminal The Joker (Heath Ledger). It is a really good and complex superhero movie, with plenty of spectacular action, and brilliant performances, especially from Ledger. I remember watching it at the cinema when it was out last year.After the movie I went on to the computer and was up until about half past four in the morning writing. I've pretty much finished the story, but I want to rewrite the last part because, after I've thought about it, I'm not really happy about it.

Today was another really bright and sunny day. I went along to my parent's house as usual for a Sunday and we had a barbecue. Which was hamburgers, sausages, chicken legs and salad followed by strawberries dipped in melted chocolate and beer. It was really nice. We always like having barbecues but the weather is very rarely nice enough to allow us to have them. We didn't have any at all last year. It was also nice enough to just sit out in the garden.

When I got back I listened to the final episode of Voices From the Grave, which this week told the story of a parson who takes over a new parish in a small English village and promptly bans a violent annual fighting game, much to the horror of the villagers. The decision also enrages evil ancient forces which demand a blood sacrifice. It was a pretty good one. That has been a good series actually.

Synecdoche, New York

Yesterday evening I was listening to the final episode of the radio series of The Twilight Zone. This week's story was called "Five Characters in Search of an Exit", and was about five unconnected people who find themselves trapped together in a metal room with no way out and no memory of how they got there. It was a pretty good story, with a surprising twist at the end, although it was slightly marred by one of the worst attempts at a Scottish accent I have ever heard.

Later on I was watching a show called Bring Back... Star Trek, in which Justin Lee-Collins, a British comedian and TV presenter, was trying to reunite the cast of the original Star Trek TV series to talk to them about their time on the show and try and get them to return for a one-off reunion. He had a good response from most of them, with the only one who he couldn't at least get to talk to being William Shatner. I used to love Star Trek and I thought it was a really funny and enetertaining show.

This morning I went along with my Mum to the Cameo Cinema to see a preview of the film Synecdoche, New York, written and directed by Charlie Kaufman. The film is about an aging theatre director (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman), whose wife (Catherine Keener) leaves him to go to Berlin to work on her painitng, taking their young daughter with her. Deeply troubled by his failing health and complex relationships with the women in his life, the director decides to create an epic experimental theatre piece, which he plans to be a "brutally and painfully honest" recreation of his own life on a giant life-size New York set built in a massive hanger. However before long life and art become increasingly confused. The film is well-made and well-acted, with some memorably quirky elements, but in many respects it is just too weird.

After the movie we went along to my parent's house for lunch. Which today was beef stew with mashed potato and peas. The afternoon was pretty quiet and I spent most of the time reading the various supplements from the Sunday papers.

Time Enough At Last

Yesterday evening I was listenign to an episode of the radio version of The Twilight Zone. This week's story was an adaptation of the famous episode about a bank clerk who's main love in life is reading, but never has enough time to do it. Until that is, a neutron bomb explodes wiping out all the people except for the clerk, who had locked himself in the bank's vault to get some reading done on his lunch hour. Emerging into the empty city he discovers he has all the time in the world to do as much reading as he wants. However, fate has a nasty shock in store for him. It is a really good episode with one of the best of the Twilight Zone twist endings. The rest of the evening was pretty uneventful. I did some more work on my story. I read the second volume of The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman, which was really good. I am definitely going to get some of the others in the series when I get the chance. I've only read the first two collected volumes (there are eleven in total) but it is shaping up so far to be one of the best, if not the best, comic book series I have ever read. Later on I switched on a horror film called Shrooms but I fell asleep about half an hour into it. I'll watch it again and see if I can stay awake through the whole thing.

I went to my parent's house for lunch as usual for a Sunday. The latest issue of Sight and Sound magazine had arrived for me during the week. It was a pretty good edition of the magazine this month, with the main feature being a preview of this year's Cannes Film Festival. Our lunch was tacos, minced beef, salad, mushrooms, salsa sauce and mayonnaise. I always like our Sunday lunches because it's really the only time I usually get some good food!

Twilight Zone

It was a pretty quiet evening last night. I listened to the latest episode of The Twilight Zone radio series. This one was called "The Ring-a-Ding Girl" and was adapted from a 1963 episode of the TV series. It told the story of a world famous movie star who is given a ring by her fan-club from her hometown. However the ring gives her disturbing visions of the future. It was a good story, with a genuinely surprising twist in the tail.

I went along to my parent's house for lunch as usual on a Sunday. Lunch was really nice, being chopped up salmon with rice, spring onions and red peppers. The latest issue of Fortean Times ("The Journal of Strange Phenomena") had arrived as well.

Unexpected Night Out

Yesterday I was listening to the latest episode of The Twilight Zone radio series. This one was called "Patterns of Doomsday", and was one which was written for the orignial series but never filmed for some reason. The story revolved around an asteroid that is about to destroy Earth, and a small group are rounded up by the US Government of which eight will be chosed to go on a spaceship to build a new life on an alien planet. However the decision is who goes on the ship and have a chance of survival and who stays behind to face certain death.

Yesterday evening I got a call from my friend Joe, asking if I wanted to go out for a quick drink. We met up at Tiles bar and had a drink there and then we went to some of the bars in the Omni Centre and had a few drink in a couple of the bars there, and we were going to go to another bar but it was only people over 21 and I couldn't get in because they didn't believe I was old enough and I didn't have any ID to prove I was 30!

This morning I was up really early to head off with my Dad to the Gyle Shopping Centre. I had a cheese scone and a cup of mocha coffee in the food area and then looked around the centre for about an hour. I bought the DVD set of season four of Red Dwarf. Then I went back to my parent's house for lunch. The weather was really good today which was amajor plus, and it was nice enough to sit outside for a bit.

Waiting for Godot

Last night I was watching the film 11:14 on DVD. It was a pretty fun dark comedy thriller in which a series of interlocking stories all culminate at 11:14PM in a small American town. It was funny and enjoyable, and pretty engaging. Also Rachael Leigh Cook looked spectacular, so that was the important thing as far as I was concerned!

I was back to work today and it was a pretty average day. It was really quiet though due to the Easter Bank Holiday, there hadn't been much work coming through. However I left early and went to my parent's house, where I had some spaghetti bolognese. After that my Mum and I went along to the Kings Theatre to see a performance of Waiting for Godot, written by Samuel Beckett and starring Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan, Simon Callow and Ronald Pickup. The play revolves around two tramps who spend a couple of evenings hanging out by a road, waiting for someone named Godot. Along the way they encounter the flamboyant Pozzo and his servant Lucky. Mostly they joke around, bicker, philosophise, sing, dance, try on each other's hats and reflect on the meaning of life. The play was brilliant and surprisingly amusing. All the actors were superb. The play is completely sold out for the entire run and my Mum had to book the tickets before Christmas, so it wa s areally great evening.

Young Frankenstein

Last night I was listening to an episode of The Twilight Zone on the radio called "Long Live Walter Jamieson". It was about a history professor who turns out to have gained his advanced knowledge of the past from the fact that he has not aged for thousands of years. It wasn't one of the best stories, but not too bad.

I was playing a lot of Dead Space last night. It's a fun game where you have to explore a spaceship and fight alien monsters. Later on I was watching the 1974 movie Young Frankenstein, directed by Mel Brooks. It stars Gene Wilder as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (although he insists on pronouncing it "Frahnkensteen"), the grandson of the famous mad scientist Victor Frankenstein. However, when he becomes the reluctant heir to his grandfather's estate in Transylvania, Frederick meets his grandfather's wisecracking servant Igor (played by Marty Feldman) and discovers the laboratory intact. before long Frederick becomes pre-occupied with trying to give life to his own creature (Peter Boyle). The film is an affectionate spoof of the 1930s horror movies, in particular the Frankenstein films. It is really funny and very stylish.

Today I went along to my parent's house as usual for a Sunday afternoon, so that was good. My mum seemed happy with her Mother's Day gifts so I was happy about that!

Graphic Novels

Last night was pretty quiet. I watched an episode of Hammer House of Horror which dealt with a woman who kills an attacker and later on believes that his ghost is haunting her. It was a pretty good one.

My Mum is on holiday to Egypt at the moment and so my Dad picked me up fairly sharply this morning and took me along to the St. James Centre shopping mall here we had some coffee and a scone. After that we split up to look around. I bought a selection of graphic novels by Alan Moore in a three for two offer: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen volumes one and two and From Hell. After that I went back to my parent's house for a while. After awhile we went over to Pizza Express for some food. I had a Capriciosa pizza (which had tomato, cheese, anchovies, capers, ham, peppers, olives and a boiled egg) it was really nice, that was followed by a Chocolate Glory ice cream, which was vanilla ice cream with chocolate fudge cake and chocolate sauce poured over it. It was a really nice meal.

Today is the last day of the holiday. I have to go back to work tomorrow, which I am really not looking forward to. It feels like I have been away for a lot longer than just two weeks.

This evening I signed up for this year's "Script Frenzy". You might remember last November I did the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) where the aim was to write 50,000 words of a novel during the month of November. Script Frenzy is a similar thing, in fact it's run by the same people, but the idea with it is to write 100 pages of a script (a movie screenplay, TV show script, play or comic-book script) during the month of April. I did manage to complete the NaNoWriMo challenge, so this one should be pretty good.

Be Kind Rewind

Last night I was listening to an episode of The Twilight Zone on the radio. The episode was called "The Hitch-Hiker" and it was about a young woman who is driving cross-country but finds herself haunted by the figure of a mysterious hitch-hiker who appears to be waiting for her everywhere she goes. It was a pretty creepy episode with a good twist at the end.

Later on I was watching the 2008 film Be Kind Rewind, directed by Michel Gondry, on TV last night. The film tells the story of an employee at a run-down neighbourhood video store (Mos Def), who is left in charge of the store when the owner (Danny Glover) goes away for a few days. However, the employee's best friend (Jack Black) accidentally becomes magnetized and inadvertantly erases all the video tapes in the store. In a desperate attempt to save the store, the duo decide to replace the tapes by re-making the films themselves, with home-made special effects. However, the home-made tapes end up becoming extremely popular in their own right. The film is very funny in places, especially with their home-made versions of films such as Ghostbusters, RoboCop, Rush Hour 2 and Driving Miss Daisy. It's a really fun and likeable film.

After that I was watching a Japanese film called Death Note, directed by Shusuke Kaneko. The film concerns a university student (Tatsuya Fujiwara) who finds a supernatural notebook which if you write someone's name in it, while picturing the face of that person, they will die. The student uses it to kill criminals all over the world and the mysterious serial killer, dubbed "Kira" by the public, becomes a hero to some while being condemned by others. Meanwhile a mysterious police detective, known only as "L" (Ken'ichi Matsuyama), is determined to track him down.

I went along to my parent's house for lunch today, as usual. We had chicken, small, cubed roast potatoes in garlic butter, peas and stuffing. It was really nice. The new issue of Fortean Times arrived during the week, and so did the DVD of F for Fake which was my free gift for renewing my subscription to Sight and Sound magazine.

That Mitchell and Webb Sound

Last night I was watching a Doctor Who story from the early 1970s called "Doctor Who and the Silurians". The story involved the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) investigating the mysterious power losses at an underground experimental power station, alongside the strange attacks on members of the stations' staff. It turns out that the culprits are a race of intelligent reptilian creatures who used to rule the Earth during the dinosaur period but were forced to move underground into suspended animation, until they were reanimated by the power from the station. It was a really dark and quite ambiguous story. The humans and the creatures were presented as being pretty much as bad as each other, with some of the creatures being quite sympathetic characters.

Later on I was listening to a radio adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel called Elephants Can Remember, which was pretty good.

Today I went over to my parent's house for lunch, as usual. The CD of the second season of That Mitchell and Webb Sound that I ordered had arrived. Here's what it says on the back of the CD:

"Starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, from Channel 4's Peep Show, That Mitchell and Webb Sound is a hilarious mix of satirical sketches and surreal characters that provides a fantastically skewed perspective on everyday life.
Meet soporific late-night DJ Adrian Locket; Peter and Ted, commentators who reeal the murky underside of the snooker world; crime fighter Angel Summoner and his redundant sidekick BMX Bandit; and the obnoxious incredibly posh person who is still unaccountably a waiter.
In addition there's Numberwang!, the maths quiz that makes very little sense, plus thrilling coverage of people you don't know buying houses and then living in them, and thinking where to go on holiday and then booking it.
Zany and original, this consistently funny and imaginative series highlights the absurdity of reality TV, politics, chat shows - and milk helplines."

I got back home at around half past five.