Hey! Do you all remember me writing about the discovery of King Richard III's bones being discovered in a car park in Leicester, England? Phillipa Langley wrote a book about her experiences in bringing this discovery about and it was made into a film, "The Lost King". I have written about it on my blog; you may find one post just here. (If you look at that one, there is a link to the post where I mentioned it before that one.)
Now, I have been reading all week about Richard Taylor, an employee of Leicester University. who sued Steve Coogan, who was the writer and producer of the film "The Lost King". The court ruled in Richard Taylor's favor, and Steve Coogan and his company must pay "substantial damages". Mr. Taylor objected to his portrayal in the film. Phillipa Langley was unable to attend any court proceedings due to ill health. To me, this does not seem fair. You may read the court ruling just here.
Even though Richard Taylor won in court, he was still not satisfied and felt that Steve Coogan owed him an apology. If you don't click on any other link here, I hope you will read the piece that Steve Coogan wrote in The Guardian. He will not apologize! I hope you can read the article just here. It is so well written that I wanted to share that with you!
Oh, and in other news from England...as I was getting my thoughts together about this post, I see that Prince Andrew has been stripped of his titles and must move out of the royal residence and will henceforth be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
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Really do wish I could think properly to write this post today, but I am a bit under the weather. Normally, it is warm and sunny in October, but it has rained all week and the temps so cool, it has felt like wintertime. Gray skies all week with pouring rain, off and on. Why, I had to wear my gold sweatshirt to create my own sunshine! The sun peeped out for a few moments today and I could see the lovely yellow of the hickory tree in my yard! Never mind, we are promised sun tomorrow.
Look, the last of our summer veggies. If those green tomatoes don't ripen on the windowsill, they will become fried green tomatoes. You know I can make them.
These rain lilies bloom at the Monastery; these were just photographed last week or so. They come out after a rain. How I love flowers.
Take care, everyone. Hope this post makes some sort of sense!
Wow - I read the linked articles. Sounds not fair to me too.
ReplyDeleteSorry you aren't feeling great and hoping you are back on top of things soon.
I'm finishing the last of our tomatoes too. Sad to see them end.
Hi dear Kay, so sorry that 😢 you aren't feeling well. It rained 🌧 all day here in Montreal. Sending you warm hugs 🫂 🤗 ❤️
ReplyDeleteSame here with the cold weather. Finally had to put my heating on after it dipped down to 2c the last few days. November is usually a very cold month with the first snows falling or maybe it's just the shock after several months of above 20c summer weather. I've even got a furry hat on in bed tonight. Read a lot about the Steve Coogan film and the court ruling. P.A stripped of titles. Should have happened years ago and I bet there's many more rich and powerful people still not been named... and probably will never be named now.
ReplyDeleteSo is that true about Andrew? I guess you would know. Sorry you are feeling under the weather - so am I - a cold. Weather here a little dark too. Love green tomatoes.
ReplyDeleteI'm still battling vertigo. It's bummers to not be able to function properly.
ReplyDeleteOh yes. I've definitely heard about Andrew being stripped of all his titles including Prince and kicked out of his house too.
And yet... we still don't know about Trump. Hmmmm....
I did hear about the Lost King and now I'm really curious. I hope you feel 100% better soon, Kay.
ReplyDeleteA post with bits of news about many things is an excellent post. May you get sunshine aplenty over the weekend and feel much better soon.
ReplyDeleteSome time ago, I started watching the film about The Lost King but for some reason (I honestly can't remember why) never finished it; it still sits on my "continue to watch" list, so I will get back to it eventually.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear you're not very well. I hope with more sunshine you'll be soon back to normal! I do the same as you with your gold sweatshirt - I create a contrast to grey skies by wearing yellow or other bright colours :-)
I remember all that about Richard III and some of the arguments on where he should be buried but it did not seem right Steve Cogan making a film, he is a comedian one not one of my favourites so as far as I concerned he got what he deserved. As for Andrew he has always come out on the wrong side, true someone like him should have known better but we only have word it happened she could have made it up, face it she was old enough to know better as well. Him being thrown out of the lodge he won’t be homeless like others on this country.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry you're under the weather. I hope you feel much better very soon.
ReplyDeleteWeather can affect our mood and health.
ReplyDeleteHope you will be better soon...
Not very cold here but we will have a rainy weekend...
Anna