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  It’s bucket of coffee time before a 12 hour shift and I didn’t sleep well. It’s a while since a film has given me nightmares ( United 93 was the last) so I should not have been so surprised to find out that Hotel Mumbai had done the same. For those that don’t know Hotel Mumbai is a fictional depiction of the Islamic terrorist attack on the prestigious Raj Hotel in Mumbai in 2009. The hotel was effectively put into a siege by six heavily armed terrorists and for days those terrorists systematically killed as many guests and staff members as they could before being defeated by special forces flown in from the capital. This film isn’t an exhilarating Romp Die Hard style. It is a visceral, very real cat and mouse drama where the protagonists spend most of their time hiding under tables and in cupboards until their captors corner them.  In once scene an elderly house maid is shot sat on the lavatory in the bathroom where she is hiding whilst in another the hotel rec...

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  Needs must. Mary had a haircut this morning. She will also have a shampoo once the knots and clingons have been removed. Mrs Trellis spied her through the lane window and mouthed that she was going quite mad due to lockdown.  I’ve made spiced butternut soup ( before the clingon removal ) and this afternoon will watch the movie Hotel Mumbai  Tonight it’s the big gay quiz and I’m working all weekend  So that’s my itinerary  from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3oD42Ol

English people of my generation have always been fascinated by America and Americans. We grew up on American popular music, American films and TV shows and heard tales of American servicemen who fornicated constantly with our women when they were posted over here in the nineteen forties. They brought chewing gum, "Lucky Strike" cigarettes and nylon stockings - rather like missionaries in Africa with their gifts of beads and mirrors. In my last blogpost, I revealed my intimate understanding of Americans. This was achieved not just through the popular culture I absorbed in my youth but via several research trips to the USA. I was first over there in 1972 and my last visit was in 2014. I was half hoping to make a further research visit this past year but that coronavirus thing got in the way. This is what I wrote in my last post: "It is well-known over here in England that all Americans are stupendously rich. They drive around in massive cars and have massive refriger...