First, one can have too much of a good thing. Ian Richardson is very good as the icing on the cake, but I think I prefer him not to be the whole cake. So, to that extent, he was more successful in 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy', of which last we were further reminded by BH's making a (hedgerow) damson crumble, a slightly more elaborate affair than usual involving, I believe, almonds or perhaps cinnamon. Damson crumble involves a lot of small stones to be arranged on the rim of the bowl, provided, of course, that one has thought to use the right sort of bowl. Stones on the rim are then the subject of the well known rhyme, a rhyme which has been knocking about in one form or another since the seventeenth century and was certainly around when I was a child, when we consumed a fair amount of stone fruit, mainly plums and gages, mainly bottled but rarely crumbled.
Second, I became convinced that the attractive lobby correspondent in the 'House of Cards' was the same actress as the actress Barnaby daughter in the original 'Midsomer Murders' team. BH not convinced at all, so the following morning, that is to say yesterday morning, I was moved to check, producing the illustration included here. BH entirely right, they are two different people, although my pride was salved by our agreeing that they both have the same kind of face and presentation.
Interesting that BH's memory for faces was clearly better than mine. Interesting also that while the face of the correspondent (the lower face) does seem very familiar and comes with a long carriculum vitae, the carriculum does not seem to include anything much that we are familiar with. Perhaps, in my brain at least, the two have become conflated, this conflation being part of the ongoing drive to economise on my valuable brain slots. Further conflation may have been introduced by certain similarities between the lower face and that of a third person, quite unrelated.
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