Week Notes

Week notes for May 19 – 25, 2025

Things last week

It’s scary to stop and think about it but, we’re already in the last week of May, that’s five months of the year almost up. I can’t believe it’s June next Sunday.

Stuff

This Wednesday our new mobile AC unit finally arrived right in the middle of yet another week of almost solid rain. I mean, how much rain can you get and still stay afloat? We’ve had that much rain that a huge sinkhole opened up in a small place called Sainte Monique, up north from us. And I mean, HUGE. It was 300 plus feet across and swallowed a house and shed, whole.

Lucky for all concerned, no one was injured, or worse, killed. Somehow I don’t think anyone’s going to be filling in the hole any time soon.

Travel

Everything is now finalised for our July trip to Montreal. The OH finished booking all the side attractions we hope to be seeing, while there. I’m just hoping the weather is going to be kind to us but, in case of any eventuality, I’ll be packing for rainy weather.

Health

Somehow, even after not even trying as I haven’t managed to get nearly as many walks in, this month, as I did last month, I’ve still managed to loose weight. Again. I’m hoping it’s just my recent activity and not something nefarious or some underlying problem, I have enough of those already. Annoying thing is, I no longer have a family doctor and, probably won’t have one for the foreseeable future at the rate the province is going, never mind here, in Quebec City, with a lack of doctors.

Entertainment

We’ve been on a nonstop binge watch of The Crown racing through episodes like our lives depended on it. While I enjoyed the young Queen in the first two seasons, most of those episodes were stuff I already knew. And it all became a blur by the end. So that it was a relief to see a change of guard, as it were, with new faces kicking off seasons 3 through 4.

I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed these two seasons and that’s all down to the writing and, more importantly, the acting of four of the principals. The four actresses playing the Queen Mother, Queen, Margaret and, of course, the wonderfully sarcastic Anne. I savoured all the scenes showing any combination of these four as their wit and humour were the best parts of the entire show.

I can’t say I enjoyed much of season 5, which couldn’t end fast enough for me. Season 6, however, hit me the hardest. Those episodes difficult on an emotional level, especially when I read that the Queen passed away while they were filming the episode of Margaret’s death. I was bawling my eyes out by the end of the series. And loved the way we see the Queen leave the picture, as it were, in the final frames of the last episode. Very poignant and moving and a fitting end to the whole series.

Andor is up next, which means, subscribing to Disney.

And you, what have you been up to this last week?

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