Richard Dormer and Michael Gambon in Fortitude
Last Monday we hopped on the
straight and narrow bus determined to shed some blubber before the 2017 race
season starts. The plan Steve and I find is easiest to stick to is the go very
lightly and healthily five days every week. Monday to Friday we don’t eat
during the day but we do drink regularly. In the early evening we take a
healthy dinner of lightly cooked fish or chicken with a big bowl of salad.
Steve does the cooking and all I do is lay the table, put a glass of mineral
water out for each of us and when I get the shout, I dress and toss the salad.
I make the salad dressing myself so that I know exactly what it contains. We
only have the one course and I do not have a glass of wine, which had during
the dark months got to the point that it was a big glass of wine every evening;
I am struggling to see the light now.
Actually having completed
the first week of being sensible again I have to say that I have not had any
problem with giving up my glass of wine. The other advantage of being on the
weight watch is that you say goodbye to indigestion completely. We only suffer
when we have eaten either something too rich, too much of anything and in my
case I will pay for eating most desserts although ice cream seems to slide down
nice and peacefully. For the diet days,
it is no dessert at all, not even fruit. We take a coffee or tea at will, I
drink more coffee than tea and Steve the reverse, we don’t take milk or sugar
in tea but then in both cases we drink fancy tea that milk would spoil.
At the weekend, we can have
some of the things we have been craving but still within reason. Steve does not
drink alcohol at all and never has, and I am a bit of a lightweight, two
glasses of wine is tops for me. Saturday we do have a bagel for late breakfast
after our turbo session and bath.
We did 120 minutes this
morning but just spinning and listening to the radio; sounds of the sixties is
a favourite. Next week we will get back into a proper turbo session using a DVD
of either one of the Sufferfest sessions, Spinavals or one of our old Cycle-robics sets
from the stone-age or maybe later to be fair because they must have invented
the wheel.
While we were turning
circles on the bikes this morning, we were talking about the TV series we are
just catching up on, I don’t know how it slipped our attention for so long. We
are really enjoying season 1 of Fortitude. For those we have never heard of it
follows the trend for some Nordic Noir. It is set in a small Arctic town, where
before this story gets going they claim they had no crime whatsoever. That
changed pretty quickly as the action started and it is not just the polar bears
leaving a trail of blood.
It has a most excellent cast
with Richard Dormer as head of the Politi. I understand that he is already well
known to Game of Thrones fans but we don’t know anything about that having not
watched a single episode. He does have the most wonderful voice which is the gift
that I count as most important for an actor as well as a good face.
The lovely Verónica Echegui as the seductive Elena
Stanley Tucci on the other
hand we have seen in loads of films and TV productions, Murder 1 being the most
memorable for me. He is always brilliant who ever he is playing. Michael Gambon
is of course equally well known perhaps more so, since he has been in films and
TV forever. The credits list Christopher Eccleston as one of the stars of the
cast but for most of his scenes he is either the hacked to death body on the
floor, or the slab or in a drawer in the morgue.
As to the female cast Sophie
Gråbøl is a Danish actress, who starred in The Killing, another ‘Nordic Noir’
masterpiece that we loved. She is great in this in the role of the Governor
with a serious hotel building agenda, the sight of which is sliding dangerously
into the ice in Fortitude. The other notable female is the stunning Verónica
Fernández Echegaray, known professionally as Verónica Echegui, she is a Spanish
actress already nominated for awards and does a great job in this series.
Beautiful woman.
It was amazing that Steve
and I managed to get up to turbo this morning since we got so engrossed last
night that we had to watch and extra episode of this very different thriller
series. Gripping stuff, and I can’t wait for the next surprising twist.
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