I got a new book from Audible yesterday, the House Sitter by Richard Lovesey.
It's a detective novel and I am really enjoying it, listening to it on my mp3 player.
I am always surprised at how many books are on this very small mp3 player, I've had such pleasure from it. When I first joined Audible I was using another player, and unfortunately the Audible site didn't like it one bit and refused to put any books on to it. After a few months, I treated myself to a new player, first checking that Audible was compatible with the new one, a Creative Zen Stone. Since then it has been a breeze, Audible had improved their site and the book just zooms on to the player without any effort from myself, brilliant!
I get one book each month, about the fifth of the month, and have had very few disappointments.
Most of the readers are marvellous and really add to the enjoyment of the book, I find.
Also I use the talking books when I am doing some boring job around the house, sometimes I get so interested in the book, I finish the work without any effort.
I often can't get to sleep at night, especially if I am overtired, so I use the talking book to get myself off to sleep. I listen to a book that is not too exciting and one I have read and re-read several times.
I also rent a DVD about once a month, from LoveFilm.
This time I got "The March of the Penguins" in the Blu-ray format, to play on Bill's new flat screen TV. It was fantastic, the photography was marvellous and the quality of the picture was stunning, of course.
Bill and I had been to Antartica so we knew some of what went on, including the leopard seals and the skuas. They didn't have any skuas in this film, but an equally nasty bird was trying to eat the penguin chicks alive, as I watched through my fingers.
On this disc, there were three or four really interesting additional films, one by the camera men about their work, really wonderful.
I waited for them to tell me about the difficulties they had with the digital photography in low temperatures but they didn't go into that unfortunately.
This DVD is well worth watching, I remember when it came out at the cinema, and regret not seeing it there at that time.
Next week we are going to see the new Daniel Craig film, probably at the cinema in Edinburgh.
We enjoy going there to see a film and plan to go at least once a month this year.
We've been a bit disappointed in the TV over the festive period this year. I expected it to be much better, and planned to record several goodies, but so far nothing has grabbed our attention except for the Royal Institution Xmas Lectures.
This year the subject was Computers and we were amazed at the facts that were given out, things we had wondered about, but never thought anyone would explain to us.
These lectures are a must for us, along with the concert from Vienna on New Year's Day.
I recorded the concert and all five of the lectures, and we plan to watch the concert on the new TV at Bill's house. The conductor this year was Daniel Barenboim, who was quite amusing.
I was a bit surprised at his humour, he looks pretty serious these days.
I must say that, this year, the programme was different and very interesting and lively.
We will probably watch it during the year several times.
Our favourite morning programme is "the Wright stuff" with Matthew Wright, but he went off for Xmas and hasn't returned yet. We are so disappointed and hope that he will be back next Monday, we love that programme.