According to my desk calendar, today was traditionally Cuckoo Day in Britain:
In Marsden, West Yorkshire, residents still honor the “Welsh ambassador,” as the cuckoo was known, since its migratory route begins in Wales.
No word on what the celebrations entail. Me, I spent the day mostly just hanging around the house.
I did some much needed cleaning and listened to several of John Cleese’s commentaries on the Fawlty Towers DVDs.
I mailed a few more issues of Kaleidotrope, and learned that a story from issue #6 had been nominated for an award.
I quite liked this week’s episode of Doctor Who, even if it was mostly just a mash-up of two of Steven Moffat’s earlier episodes (“Blink” and “Silence in the Library”/”Forest of the Dead”) with some clever bits added on here and there. I can hardly blame him for revisiting the Weeping Angels, which remain genuinely scary, and I’m quite looking forward to the continuation next week.
And then this evening, I watched The Limey, which I think I enjoyed more as a series of expertly composed shots than as an engaging story.
And that was my Cuckoo Day.