What is/was/will be on TV?

 I was looking to see where on TV I can watch the French Open Tennis which starts next week and discovered that Jack Draper is out through injury and so is Carlos Alcaraz. So no big Sinner/Alcaraz final then. 

It's on  TNT Sports and £30.99 for the month again. Last year I decided to afford it by not going to the big Suffolk Show or the 1940s weekend at the Middy Railway. I'm undecided this year - £30.99 for a month goes against the grain..............but I do love tennis.

 Although no Suffolk Show for me this year either - it's just too big, exhausting and expensive (£33 pre paid for concessions or £40 on the day - £48 for other adults - Good Grief!! ). Much as I enjoyed going and watching the show jumping and everything else  a few years ago.

But I think I will go to the Middy Heritage Railway 1940s thing over late May Bank Hol weekend as I want to see the new extra quarter mile of track which takes the railway to within one field of where I used to live.

After watching several sessions of the 17 days of the World Snooker Championships on TV which finished on the early May Bank Holiday Monday I discovered the Seniors Snooker Championship was on from last Wednesday to last Sunday. Good to see 24 of  the 'oldies' - actually they only need be over 40 - so still young. Then they were plugging a snooker tournament called the 900 which started on Pluto TV on Tuesday. It has a very different format to proper snooker, had to google it to see how it works- not a fan.

In between all the sport I've been watching episodes of Bull. This has just appeared on the 5 catch-up channel arriving from the US and starring Michael Weatherly who was in NCIS when I watched that back in 2022. This is the precis if you haven't seen it..........

 Dr Jason Bull, a psychologist and a trial science expert, heads a consulting firm that helps its clients choose the right jurors and aids them in deciding the best argument that can win the case.

Makes a change from police/special agent things. Looks as if it had six series from 2017 to 2022, so it's taken a while to get to watch for free here. What I like about US dramas is that they make so many in a series - here we're lucky to have six! 

Then of course there is the World Cup Football which starts on the 11th June and finishes 19th July - I'm not much of an international football fan so when it overlaps with Wimbledon (29th June to 12th July) The tennis will come first. 

We seem to have crept around to the Eurovison Song Contest this year (tomorrow night) and I'd not even heard what the UK entry was. So I looked on line..............Oh Good Grief! What a weird one.

 Lots of Countries are boycotting the Eurovison this year after Isreal were allowed to enter. 

So much for trying not to let politics into what was meant to be a song contest .........now it's just a weird music/fancy dress show!

I shall probably half  watch.

Maybe I watch too much TV, but it's good company in a very quiet home alone.

Going back a couple of days - thank you to everyone for comments on the post about SS Nevasa. It was good to hear from other people who'd heard of these Educational Cruises. Not common knowledge!

Roots

 It took a while but the basil cuttings finally produced some roots.

I've put them into compost in pots in the greenhouse now - 7 had roots good enough - hopefully they'll get going to make decent plants. Fingers crossed.

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The Strange Things Found ............

...........at Car Boot Sales.

A group of us from Stowmarket Grammar School  went on an Educational School Cruise on board the SS Nevasa in October 1969  but I  have nothing left to remind me of it - and very few memories .

So spotting this among the house clearance stuff at last Saturdays car-boot sale was a Huge surprise. 

It's a  scrapbook by Sally-Ann Rogers, a Bury St Edmunds Silver Jubilee pupil (a girls Secondary Modern school that amalgameted with the boys school in 1971 and no longer exists) who went on an educational cruise on the SS Nevasa in 1966.

She had kept a lot of the brochures they must have been given - I don't think we had any of these.

I kept my log book - like Sally's below for many years but don't have it now.

Her cruise was two weeks and they went to different places to our cruise (except for Gibralter). She even received letters from her mother and a friend sent to the ship and they did lessons everyday too. I don't think we did and certainly no one sent letters to the ship. From what I can see there were also other adult independent passengers on the cruise apart from the various school groups and their teachers, that's something I don't think happened on our cruise.

I'd not thought about my 1969 cruise for ages - I have no photos. My dad was into slides for photography and so any photos I took were made into slides and I don't remember seeing them. I do remember my camera going wrong somewhere so maybe I didn't get any photos at all.

I googled SS Nevasa to see what I could find online  and discovered a facebook group HERE just in case you are curious!  By the time of our cruise there were just two ships doing Educational Cruises - The Nevassa and the SS Uganda.

I spent £2 on the scrapbook and it's been interesting looking at all the pages and finding things online about the ships and the cruises.

You just never know what's lurking in boxes at boot sales!