Notes - close to the heart /

         Almost noon. You spent most of the morning resting and napping in the bedroom chair. Again it was difficult swallowing your large pills. After delivering the paper at seven you went back to bed and did not have breakfast until almost ten.

         With a quick fit of energy (tired of sitting) you swept the kitchen, dining room, living room, hall, office and TV room then came upstairs and did forty minutes of exercise. Now you are tired once again – Amorella

         1347 hours. Taking a pain pill didn’t help this morning in that it makes me sleepy. I did get my forty minutes in though I don’t think it did anything for my throat and general malaise. It is a beautiful day out. We ought to do something to get out of the house.

         2058 hours. We both took naps instead and had very little supper. Carol has been upstairs in bed most of the time and I napped on the living room floor. We both have sinus headaches and raw throats with deep guttural coughing/gagging – not a pleasant sound. Carol thinks it is the flu; could be, neither of us has had the flu for years. We did have our flu shots last fall though. I watched two episodes of “Fawlty Towers” tonight and laughed aloud (sometime it hurt) most of the time. That show has been one of my favorites over the years. John Cleese is a master. No other show has had the consistency of making me laugh so free and heartily while viewing each episode.

Fawlty Towers cast

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Fawlty Towers is a BBC television sitcom that was first broadcast on BBC@ in 1975 and 1979. Twelve episodes were made (two series, each of six episodes). The show was written by John Cleese and his then-wife Connie Booth, both of whom also starred in the show.

The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a fictional hotel in the seaside town of Torquay, on the “English Riviera”. The plots centre on tense, rude and put-upon owner Basil Fawlty (Cleese), his bossy wife Sybil (Prunella Scales), comparatively normal chambermaid Polly (Booth), and hapless Spanish waiter Manuel (Andrew Sachs), showing their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding and eccentric guests.

In a list drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, voted by industry professionals, Fawlty Towers was named the best British television series of all time.

Selected and edited from Wikipedia – Fawlty Towers

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         This is a show so very close to your heart that at times it touches your soul, boy – such is its humor. Post. – Amorella

         2150 hours. Your closing line leaves me close to speechless because I understand the darkness in its cleverness.