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kids are spraying
each other with water from the garden hose and The Light and I have eased into a glass of Rose - and I've slipped in a quick visit to the Blog...
Just been out
for supplies the street drinkers at the end of high street raised a tin as I passed, the people in greengrocer smiled and chatted, in distance the chimes of ice cream van ran out, people were soaking up the sun in the little park outside the flat and indoors it's long drinks (with home grown mint) thick books and soft music you could get use to this sort of thing.
Snakes and ladders
Good news: listening to Together Alone by Crowded House
Bad News: still haven't finished sanding the floor upstairs. In fact the combination of a cold, acute allergies and the sanding seems to have created the 'perfect storm', and I have been laid low for a few days. And yesterday, my 3 year old daughter was bitten by a water snake. Other than that, all is well with the world.
Delightful
Watching Twang Jr leaping in and out of newly filled paddling pool whilst sipping a cuppa and easing my way through The Observer. Obviously this scene was only enhanced by my neighbour suddenly putting on some loud techno.
PS Astonished at the coverage of what is apparently called BGT in the paper - surely no one actually watched this crap did they?
the world is divided into three
people who watch BGT
People who watch BGT ironically
People who don't watch BGT sadly the latter are in minority although clearly we win because we don't watch BGT.
by world I mean B (sorry Britain)
clearly the world is divided into 5
those who don't watch BGT but watch USGT
those who spend their time scratching at the earth trying to grow enough to eat or picking over garbage dumps to earm a living...
According to BBC news
biggest TV audience for 5 years at 18.7m...but, as they said sniffingly, not as high as the 30m that watch Eastenders when Dirty Den did the dirty to Ange with the divorce papers. I was enjoying a chinese buffet last night so missed the lot.
18.7M watched BGT!!!
... us WORD readers are just pissing against the wind.
As for the lovely day... yes, but that just means our neighbours playing their moronic "soft-rock" loudly in their back garden.
Made me have to go inside and shut all the doors.
I watched
Admittedly I had no choice and we watched the acts and fast forwarded through the sanctimonious tosh (just watching the tosh really). It's alright - better than Seaside Special used to be and at least the winner has the good grace to not be number one for 7 weeks.
Piers Morgan and Amanda Holden are dreadful though. Really dreadful.
I enjoyed it, so there!
Having previously decided it's rubbish, I never bothered before, but circumstances, aka everybody else at Path Towers being glued, I have been a little drawn in this week. And I thought at least half the performances were very good, if not necessarily my cup of tempranillo. The dance acts were little short of stunning, making me wonder how the public ever put up with the dancers on such piffle as the above mentioned Seaside Special etc. (Who remembers that ghastly sketch and songs show with Leslie Crowther on a saturday night, a particular fave of my parents? I think my dad fancied Sheila Burnette...) The Lichfield lad can sing a fair bit, easily up to many current hitmakers, and SuBo is at least captivating. Cowell made reasonable remarks even if his cohorts didn't/couldn't/can't. I can see him making a few bob from most of them: wait for the list of new acts on the Syco label, and most will sell. Not to me or to many of us, but they will sell, even that anodyne Kenny G aspirant, even Granpa and his girl. It was good telly.
Please... no mentions of Leslie Crowther...
"Are you related to Leslie Crowther?"... "Is Leslie Crowther your dad?"
Uuuurrrggghhh.
Me too
I thought it was brilliant TV, no irony involved. The dancers were incredible, but what impressed me most was the choreography of the whole show - it's put together like a Spielberg movie, with everything designed to squeeze the last possible ounce of emotion out of each and every moment. It's beautifully manipulative, and it makes for truly great drama - I just wish they'd drop the "and the winner is... [fifteen second pause]... DIVERSITY!" approach. It's become a cliche, it's clunky, and it doesn't add to the tension.
I did say who was watching ironically
I just said some people were.
it says a lot
about the English (I am assuming English) weather that a thread can be prompted by the remarkable event of a sunny day.
With a 10 year drought here in Melbourne I think I might start one should it actually rain.
maybe we live
in the moment and have broken free from the material and have learnt to experience each moment as it enfolds.
Oh and it's lovely day again.