At the start of lockdown number one, which seems like a very long time ago, Nicky made the wise decision of signing us up for a year's subscription to Disney+. I was sceptical about the whole thing, but have most definitely been proved wrong, and will be very happy to pay the renewal when it comes around next month.
It turns out that we are not alone. According to Disney's latest quarterly earnings announcement, which was out a couple of weeks ago, we are one of over 90 million subscribers to the service, providing a bright light in what is otherwise a tough time for a company that relies rather heavily on people being able to gather together (to go to the movies, to go to a theme park, to go to a sports game, or even to put on/make most of these entertainments). And yes, we keep an eye on these things these days because, as of a few weeks back, we are officially Disney shareholders. Well, Nicky is a shareholder - to the princely sum of 16 of them to be exact! And what's more we are up almost 10% since buying them - would be more but for the strength of sterling!
Anyway, we got Disney+ mainly for Disney reasons with a fair amount of Pixar thrown in. But our favourite show in recent weeks has been WandaVision, which is all about Marvel characters. To my even greater surprise, it has turned Nicky into a fan of Marvel superhero films, and under Jake's guidance, we watched the first two Avengers films over the weekend - one each on Saturday and Sunday evenings, and there's every chance we'll be watching some more next weekend (once we've watched the next instalment of WandaVision, just as soon as it 'drops' later this week)!