been bad this weekend

with hayfever, possib;y cold on top of that and i think a touch of food poisining too, still I haven't let it prevent me too much from doing my housework, just slow me down, as I'm still on doing the washing, I'll do the ironing tonight. I've done a bit of dusting and hoovering too but not that much. I hate being ill and try to act normally because the housework still needs doing whether I am ill or not.

'Allo 'Allo Marathon Part 9

I really need to get a life as I watched 13 episodes yesterday to complete the super-long season 5! The Reluctant Millionaires, A Duck for Launch, The Exploding Bedpan, Going Like a Bomb, Money to Burn, Puddings Can Go Off, Land Mines for London, Flight to Geneva, Train of Events, An Enigma Variation, Wedding Bloss, Down the Drain & All in Disgeese. The main plots involve the stolen Gestapo money which turns out to be forged. A new plan to get the Airmen away back to Blighty, plastic explosive disguised as christmas puddings, four stolen bars of gold and a stolen Enigma machine. There's 3 air raids in this season, the first real sign there's a war on apart from the occassional set to with the Resistance and the German soldiers. For only the second time in the show the series ends on what could be considered a proper ending if the show was not cancelled.

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'Allo 'Allo Marathon Part 8

Listen very carefully I shall type this only once...I watched a few more episodes this morning to finish off volume 1 of season 5: René - Under an Assumed Nose, The Confusion of the Generals, Who's for the Vatican, Ribbing the Bonk. The plans to invade england advance then retreat as the german generals are mistaken for escaping british airmen. Von Strom is blamed for this and so he plans to sell the painting to pay the vatican to hide him, so Rene must go back to the Communist Resistance to retrieve them, but everyone is captured and General von Klinkerhoffen won't pay the randsom! So the DeGaulle resistance plan to get the real painting, give the fakes to the german officers and kill off the germans and the communists in one go but cannot because the communists have Mimi and the real paintings so they resort to break into a bank and steal the money to pay the randsom themselves to get Mimi and the paintings back. It's all very complicated but not too much.

'Allo 'Allo Marathon Part 7

it's getting more like a soap opera now with plots lasting over several episodesinstead of being self contained, so I'm just going to do one quick review for the eps I watched yesterday... Dinner with the General, The Dreaded Circular Saw, Otherwise Engaged, A Marriage of Inconvenience, No Hiding Place, The Arrival of the Homing Duck & Watch the Birdie. The town is preparing for a high level meeting between top German generals to plan the invasion of Britain, however the Gestapo believes they are meeting to plan the assassination of Hitler! The Resistance plan to infiltrate the meeting and obtain photographs of the plans. Meanwhile Rene is captured by the communist resistance and it is revealed he once had a love affair with their leader when they were younger. Rene is forced to marry Denise but Edith substitutes herself for her, but Yvette and Mimi substitute the real priest for Crabtree so the wedding is not legal. This earns them the wrath of the communists and the swear revenge. The airmen meanwhile try to give themselves up but the Germans believe they are french peasants being cheeky! It's all rather slow going but steady as the plot advances slowly and with much complication.