friday nights 10 October 2008
There is no doubt in my mind that Friday night tv is largely SHITE. And I am usually in to see it, which probably makes me a saddo – yet, I will say that anyone I text about a programme is also watching it so perhaps it’s a generational thing (not an idea that fills me with joy). I must admit straight off that we only have a handful of terrestrial stations in the house so that limits the choice even further. There is also a strange and unwelcome ticking noise coming from the ancient set at the moment. I kinda fancy there’s a bad electrical ‘thing’ happening because it seemed to flicker with each tick for a while after it was turned on this evening. Knowing us, it’ll have to actually die/explode before we turn it on and off a few times, decide it’s beyond repair and replace it. And then we are going to have to go digital too. It all seems way too technical for a luddite like me. So, I found myself sitting in front of an ailing tv watching nothing much and praying for 9 o’clock to come around so that I could start thinking about going to bed. That’s how much of a washout this day has been.
It was a vague disaster from start to finish – from finding the beautiful wool scarf that had been boiled in the wash and RUINED, to the news that the building work is getting even more steadily behind and would we mind if the heating and water were turned off from now until Christmas? (very much so, being the answer to that). And it LASHED rain all day. I couldn’t get an ounce of motivation together to read the books that must be done for the Costa Award judging (and which are wonderful) or the tax return that the accountant is now baying for. If there had been drink in the house I’d‘ve been well tempted to lash into it and hang the consequences. Instead, I somehow muddled through and a few minor things got done and a dinner made and off to bed early. I give up on this day and hope that tomorrow is a better one.
Oh, and I still don;t know why Friday tv is so bad – do the stations not expect people to be watching or what?
