NWR Silly little things that delight you

A nice review of Titanic:
In James Cameron’s “Titanic”—spoiler alert—a freewheeling scruff named Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) rescues a despairing Rose (Kate Winslet) as she stands at the stern, red silk shoes on the railing, and prepares to jump. “He hauls her back, they fall in love, he draws her nude, they make out in the cargo hold, and then the ship, in a touching display of erotic sympathy, rears up on end and goes down,” Anthony Lane wrote, in 1997.
 
The Rôstigraben. That fact that it exists and that we walked over it at the weekend. Literally Rösti ditch, it’s the cultural divide between French-speaking and Swiss-German speaking Switzerland.

We were staying in Rougemont and walked over to Saanen and on to Gstaad, moving from the Route de La Saussa to Grischbachstrasse along the way.

Beautiful walking and I came across the book below which might be of interest to some.

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I also had a Beatles epiphany in 1964. At the age of six the buggers kept me awake night after night with She loves you yeah, yeah, yeah played loudly and repeatedly at the fair in the market square next to the house. I took agin them then and haven't changed my mind. And if as I suspect when the time comes the care home has moved to them from Vera Lynn, I'll be DM-ing Keef and asking for his nembutal supplier.
 
'Delight' would be an overstatement, but I like the fact that at two hotels I have stayed at recently, one in the North of England and one in Brussels, the default arrangement is that they do not come into your room every day and change your used-once towels and make your bed and tidy all your stuff.
I think it would be good if this became the norm.
 
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