Mundane Moments

Decided to upgrade my 25.10 release of Budgie to the beta release of 26.04. On completion of the update, the GUI wouldn't run, So I ran sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop , resulting in a system that boots as Budgie but is just vanilla Ubuntu.

I've had worse upgrade experiences, especially to beta.

Farage walked past me (with his security team) at Heathrow T2 yesterday. He looked as much of a cunt in the flesh.

Where was your milkshake?

God, Talkbackers are so lame nowadays....

Chicago: Always ready.

On his way to Clacton, presumably...

I saw a new Ford Capri the other day. It left me wondering how Body and Doyle would have looked having the windscreen of a nondescript SUV crossover shot out whilst chasing a heavily armed nutter. Why do Ford take classic cars and turn them into modern monsters? Fords Puma and Capri have entered middle age and have put on a little weight; definitely looking past their best.

I still enjoy catching the odd episode of The Professionals. Partly because several of the early episodes were filmed around Crouch End and partly because I did a couple of shows with Martin Shaw and he was a jolly nice man.

I’m sure you’ve probably mentioned it before but who do you consider the best/worst to have worked with in the ‘biz’?

They're not really evolutions of the same car though are they? Not in the same way a Vauxhall Astra is, staying in constant production over 45 odd years.

The new Capri and Puma before it are just new cars with an old name put to them after ceasing to be decades ago.

Just a marketing ploy to extract money out of old, white brexiteers.

As I was invariably in the lighting box or substage in the office I didn't tend to meet cast members unless I had to go to their dressing room to fix something. Also there wasn't much of a post-show social scene at The Haymarket and by the time I was at the Pinter I had met Mrs Rave so would go home after the show.
However, if I had a 'lovely list' it would include Martin Shaw, Mark Rylance, Anna Chancellor, Claudie Blakley, Richard Dreyfuss, Peter Bowles, David Suchet, Louise Lombard, Kris Marshall, Martin Jarvis, Alyson Hannigan, Roy Hudd, Lynn Redgrave, Dillie Keane and Adele Anderson from Fascinating Aida and Windsor Davies.
Actually I'll stick Danny Dyer on the list. He was very friendly and surprisingly humble.
Mrs Rave would add Keira Knightley, Rag N Bone Man and Grace Chatto from Clean Bandit to the list.

The 'hmmm' list includes
John Barrowman (bit of a cock - and would get his cock out on stage during A Few Good Men when he had his back to the audience)
Jason Donovan (introduced himself to me as John before correcting himself and blaming jet lag. I think he was stoned quite a lot).
Bill Bailey (he's...odd).
Kevin Eldon (he was in the same show as Bill. Also...odd. And at the curtain call when the cast would point up to the LX box he would put his hand to his forehead as if he was trying to peer through the lights and then slide his hand below his nose, turn his other hand and basically do a sieg heil. Never found out why).
Sally Phillips (same show as Bill and Kevin. She just scowled all the time).
Vanessa Redgrave (incredibly demanding and nothing was ever right).
Molly Ringwald (seemed permanently unhappy).

The only complete shit who springs to mind is Billy Zane. He was in the show I met Mrs Rave on. She was Company Manager and had to deal with him. He was - at the time - really rather unpleasant. He was in a 2 hander with Clare Bloom and reduced her to tears in the interval several times by constantly criticising her. Craig Revel Horwood was choreographer and would despair at having to deal with him. He was with Kelly Brook at the time. She always looked pretty miserable. He seemed to resent that she got more attention than him. When I started at The Pinter it was the last 2 weeks of Fat Pig that she was in. She was with Danny Cipriani by then and frankly looked like a different person.
Also at the end of the run Mrs Rave had to go to the flat the production had rented for him. It looked like a bomb had gone off. There was also a smashed chair underneath a mark on the wall. Clearly said chair had been hurled at said wall.

His IMDB credits post-Titanic, although numerous, seem to bear that out a bit.

Mrs Rave once worked with someone who is good friends with Martin Jarvis and his wife, who were both in Titanic. Apparently they used to hide from Billy during breaks in filming.

I've never seen Titanic.

Bill Bailey and Kevin Eldon being weird seems exactly what I would've thought.

And your nice list seems entirely in keeping with the impression I have of most of those folks having never met any of them.

Bit surprised about Sally Phillips. Always thought she'd be lovely.

Maybe she was just going through a rough time.
Mrs Rave - who was also Company Manager on that show - has just pointed out that Sally's Downs Syndrome son was about 1 year old at the time. I guess life was a bit of a struggle for her back then.

Given you seem to go to the cinema regularly that's a bit weird. You should watch it. Spoiler, the ship sinks.