Tag: Television

  • Go the Wobblies

    I don’t normally blog about sport. But I love rugby and no matter how many times they’ve had defeat snatched from the jaws of victory, I still barrack for them, cos they’s so lovable, thems Wallabies. And tonight, they beat, no, make that beat and kept a clean slate, of the Principality of Wales, 31…

  • The Sea-Monkey Diaries, Part Five

    It’s a case of Monkey See, Monkey Do. Or Sea-Monkey See, Monkey Do, if you want to be more specific. Or Sea-Monkey Sea-Monkey Do… But anyway, Paul Chan’s started his own colony. For the benefit of his kids, of course. Of course! And I’ve been told that they’ve run out of Sea-Monkey kits at the…

  • The Sea-Monkey Diaries, Part Three

    No, we’re not bored with our new pets yet! No, they’re not glorified dried larvae. They’re alive and they’re feeding on the tiny spoonful of gunk we scraped out of sachet 3. Just as well we got to watch them feed and defecate (yup, they shit), because it was a depressing American Idol day, when…

  • If I can dream

    Last night, I watched (several times because on Star World, they repeat programs all day long – negating the need for a smart tv set top box but that’s another story altogether) one of the most breathtaking things I’ve watched on television: the duet on American Idol between Elvis Presley and Celine Dion, the clip…

  • Telling behaviour

    Today, while waiting in the waiting room of a medical imaging place, a lady walked in with who I think is her elderly mother, and they spoke to the radiologist/medical imaging dude guy, and then they made their way out. I sez to them, ‘hang on, lemme get the door for you’, to which the…