The end of Skyfall?

Another glorious day saw us lazing around the house for the morning. The clocks went forward last night so the old body clock was a bit out at first. Still, it will now be lighter at night…or so it will seem.

After lunch we took the girls up to Hankley to see what progress has been made on the Skyfall set. The last day of filming is supposed to be this week so, hopefully, these will be the last Bond shots.

Actually, there’s not a lot to show. They seemed to have been having a bit of a play with matches as the back of the ‘monastery’ is a bit scorched. There’s a fire engine standing around so I’m guessing it was intentional, in preparation for the big conflagration to come.

Waiting for the end

If I zoom that in a bit, you can clearly see the scorch marks.

Someone left the cooker on

The only new things (apart from the fire engines and other increase in motor vehicles) were these things. They appear to be banks of lights with filters on the front.

Lights, lights, lights

There was still quite a few people around but nowhere near as many as last week with the helicopter action going on. We’re hoping that by next Sunday, everyone will have gone home. Mirinda thinks there may be souvenir hunters but, given the whole thing is made of wood and fibreglass, I’m not sure what value there’d be in keeping a souvenir. Still, people do collect some weird stuff. The one true cross, springs to mind.

I should just mention that the gravestones appear to be finished and they look remarkably real.

Grave stones galore

Mirinda mentioned, on the way home, that we’ll have to see this film when it comes out even though both of us are not James Bond fans (we’ve each of us seen only one), simply because we’ll recognise the terrain. I guess that makes sense because I want to see Snow White and the Huntsman because it was filmed at Frensham!

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Moving along to great moments in food invention…we accidentally saw a cooking show last week (accidentally because we don’t normally like them). The chef is Rachel Koo and she lives in Paris. Her kitchen is very small (smaller than ours) and she uses it to create some amazing food. She also has a restaurant in her flat. It seats two. Very exclusive eating.

Anyway, in her programme she showed her take on the French favourite, a croque madame. This is, basically, a fried egg, cheese and ham on toast with a bit of Béchamel sauce. Rachel, however, wasn’t happy with the more traditional method and has gone for a muffin-like version. Watching her make and eat one last week was terrifyingly mouthwatering so I threatened to try them this morning. My threat was carried out.

They were pretty special although they may need a few more attempts before I get them absolutely perfect.

Croque madame muffins

Thank you, Rachel. Genius idea.