Family Affair

I think that I heard my wife come home last evening after I had gone to bed and before I got to sleep, but I may be wrong.

My cellphone was set for 3 a.m., but upon using the toilet somewhere in the neighbourhood of 2:30 a.m., I decided that I was just not up to dealing with everything that was involved when I take my bad right leg out for a six-block walk, so I unset the alarm and did my best to sleep in.

I did later rise around 5:30 a.m. and could have gone out to just 'romp' around the cul-de-sac we live in, but I chose not to. Then after spending the next couple of hours here at my bedside computer, I had burned out enough that I needed some bed rest. Even though it was not yet 8 a.m., I could hear my younger brother stirring, so I correctly surmised that he was going to come forth for morning coffee and T.V.

I probably killed time relaxing in bed until around 8:30 a.m. before rising to officially begin my morning, although as usual I waited until a bit after 9 a.m. before going downstairs for my first coffee and to join my brother for a little T.V.

Upon getting his invitation to put our Android TV Box into action, I led us off with a 19-minute (19:13) video uploaded yesterday to YouTube's AnitaK channel: Who funds Ipsos and Nanos Polls? A look at CTV & Global’s Polling Partnerships.

We may have gotten 10 minutes into the next video I tuned in, but my brother had scant interest in any more of it, so I instead tuned in a 1¾-hour (1:47:09) video published April 11 to Rumble's The HighWire with Del Bigtree channel: PETER MARKS EXPOSED.

ICAN Lead Counsel, Aaron Siri, Esq., and React19 co-chair, Brianne Dressen share damning zoom calls with former director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Peter Marks, M.D., secretly recorded by Brianne while pleading for help from the government after her COVID vaccine injury. Watch and see how this official, who was charged with ensuring the safety of vaccines in America, dismissed and gaslit severely vaccine-injured people all while telling the public the vaccine was safe.

This was rather a powerful video ─ Peter Marks at the very least needs to spend the rest of his life in solitary confinement with Anthony Fauci as his only cellmate; one or the other is bound to drive his cellmate insane.

My brother bowed out well before the video's conclusion, heading on back to his bedroom for further rest around 11:20 - 11:25 a.m.

It was another full workday for my wife, who emerged from her bedroom just before 9:30 a.m. to shower and otherwise ready for her long day; and around 10:05 a.m., she left us this quite sunny day on her fairly long drive.

Sunny weather, but once more I will not have set foot into it.

I find myself with more confidence in ascending stairs by alternating my feet independently to each step instead of needing to plant both feet on the same step before moving on to the next one in similar fashion. However, I do not attempt this if I am carrying anything like a load of laundry, or a dish of a meal, or a drink.

As yet, I dare not attempt going down the stairs by alternating any steps ─ my bad leg would surely collapse and throw me forth, suffering severest injury.

If only Bev was not seated in the living room all the day long watching T.V. after she gets up. I have no desire to exercise my leg on the stairs as I should be doing throughout the day ─ not when she has full view of me. This is something of the utmost privacy to me. I am no one's spectacle.

But time for some therapy now in my wife's bedroom, since mine is too small and clogged with things. I will continue with the post in the evening, for right now it is only 3:58 p.m.

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I wish to record some information that finally resolved a mystery for me about a youth's T.V. series that I could barely remember from the 1960s. All I could recall of it was the opening sequence of a young possible teen lass mounting her bicycle and setting off on a ride to a fairly large old house where she would drop her bicycle to the ground (I think) and hustle on up some possible stairs into the house.

All that while, the theme music was Dave Brubeck's "Take Five". As for the young teen girl, I am unsure if ever her face was directly to the camera.

She would go into the house, and I think she would sit cross-legged on the floor amongst a few books and begin to read. It was at that point that the show would then morph into a possible adventure story involving young people, but I can't recall if it was the same cast in each story or not.

For the past couple or more years, I have tried to uncover what that series involving the cycling girl was called, because the image or her cycling along to that music always stuck with me in a very positive fashion. I would love to find a video of that opening sequence.

I never had any luck discovering the series name until today when I came upon the name of the young lady: Michele Finney. The series was Time Out for Adventure, and later the title was truncated to Time for Adventure.

But I am having some difficulty determining Michele's hostess involvement, for she was later replaced by a man named Bob Willson. Note the following which I took from this undated .pdf document's page 3:

Why does it say that Michele was "later co-host of that series"? Did she not serve as hostess from its start?

The following is from here:

The span of the series matches the previous description, but this article does not imply that Michele had a co-host nor that she was not the original host(ess).

But this seems to clear up any confusion whatsoever ─ the following is from this July 6-12, 1963, .pdf document, and the write-up describes specifically a show debuting on Sunday, July 7:

Children's Films For Sunday Viewing

TIME OUT for Adventure, a new series of weekly hour-long children's programs, begins Sunday, July 7 on the CBC-TV network. The series will consist of action and adventure films from Britain, specifically designed to attract younger viewers. Each week's program will be introduced by Michele Finney, the 13-year-old hostess of CBC-TV's afternoon program for children, Razzie Dazzle, during the past two fall-winter seasons.

The films to be shown on Time Out for Adventure have been provided by the Children's Film Foundation of Great Britain, and were originally produced for showing on children's matinee programs in British movie theatres. Shot on location in many different parts of the world, they include the fields of comedy, fantasy, drama, suspense and documentary films.

The first offering, to be shown July 7, is entitled The Salvage Gang, and details the hilarious adventures of a group of London youngsters as they try to find ways of earning money. After a disastrous attempt to paint a canal boat and failure in the car-washing and dog-washing businesses (the car falls to pieces), they turn to salvage collecting, only to find that they aren't very good at that, either, and they end up having to push an old brass bed right across London through crowded city streets.

As hostess of the new series, Michele Finney should be right at home. On CBC-TV's very popular Razzle Dazzle series during the past two years she has become a fully fledged professional in the field of television. Often hailed as Canada's youngest regularly appearing TV star, she has been seen on television for more than five years, paying principal roles in TV drama productions when she was only eight, and has worked in films and as a photographic model for even longer. Michele has combined her professional career with regular school attendance, plus special tutoring and acting lessons and seems to thrive on rigorous activity. With no schoolwork to worry about through the summer, Michele's one TV appearance per week will probably make her feel like she's on a holiday.

I know nothing of Razzle Dazzle ─ I cannot remember ever seeing an episode. If I did, it clearly meant nothing to me.

So cutie Michele Finney was 13 when she began filming in July of 1963. So was I. I wonder which of us is the slight elder?

Anyway, my brother returned around 7:10 p.m. from his daily bus commute to go forth and engage his essential social drinking somewhere.

Around 8:50 p.m. I started watching a show here on my bedside computer ─ FBI. Specifically, it was episode 10 ("Family Affair") of season six. It was definitely dramatic and with enough action to be most interesting, but it never affected me emotionally. Still, if interested, my source was this GOOJARA.to link ─ a website which I keep expecting to find has been shut down.

Oh, heck ─ I was getting set to call it a night at 9:39 p.m., but my brother has finally asked me to come downstairs to watch shows with him. Bev is shut up in their bedroom.

So I guess that's what I'll do, then.