It's true you know! Yes, as widely forecast, the BBC has finally decided to cancel its shiny-new "Putin!" sitcom, almost before it had started, turning Tuesday nights into a bit of a "desert" for dyed-in-the-wool TV-watchers like me and my medium-to-long-suffering wife Lois, with little else to do in our quiet house-for-two, here in rural, semi-leafy Liphook, Hampshire, to put it mildly !!!
[Good opener today, Colin, if I may so so! - Ed]
The shock news was all over this morning's Onion News - you must have seen it !!!!!
The BBC, however, according to media sources, reportedly "went through paroxysms of anguish" before finally signing the doomed show's death-warrant, and officially "giving it the chop", and Lois and I fully sympathise!
my medium-to-long-suffering wife Lois and me - a recent picture
Coincidentally, Lois and I are going through our own "paroxysms" in bed this afternoon, during our statutory "nap-time", would you believe!!! We're having a day to ourselves today, because our "Australian" visitors - our daughter Sarah and family - are otherwise engaged, meeting up with our son-in-law Francis's relatives at a nearby pub, The Mill, at Shottermill.
flashback to earlier today: our "Australian" visitors - our daughter Sarah,
husband Francis and twins Lily and Jessica - go off to spend the afternoon
with Francis's relatives at a local pub, leaving Lois and me to have some "us time" (!)
And the agonising issue that's "paroxysing" Lois and me in bed today - is that a word? [No! - Ed], is whether to cancel arrangements for Thursday's day-trip to London and start again. Lois is adamant that we should stick to the plan. And as always with these little "fights" of ours, it's Lois who gets the better of it, I have to say!
But see what you think, and send me your ideas, ideally before Thursday, they won't be much use after that !!! - oh, and postcards only!
The current plan is to travel by train from Liphook into London's Waterloo Railway Station on Thursday morning, ride the London Eye big wheel, get a bus to Tower Pier by the Tower of London, and then do a river cruise to Westminster Pier by Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament.
At that point, Lois and I will get the train back to Liphook and go to bed, but our young visitors will get on the "tube" and travel to South Kensington, so the twins can see the giant dinosaur skeleton and other exhibits at the Natural History Museum, with a possible side-trip to Buckingham Palace, so they can see where their king lives (!). Finally they'll take the tube back to Waterloo and train back to Liphook.
the planned trip to London on Thursday to give our "Australian" visitors a taste
of the capital, to see where their king lives (!), and other delights (!)
By the time they get back here to Liphook, Lois and I will be out of bed, and ready to serve them their "tea" and hear about their experiences at the museum and maybe the palace too, etc etc.
Sounds perfect, doesn't it. What could possibly go wrong !!!!
The truth is, Lois and I are both quite nervous about Thursday. We don't really know London as it is now, either of us, but we feel a responsibility to our visitors to plan an interesting but not too exhausting day for them there, without exhausting ourselves either, to put it mildly!!!!
flashback to 2008: my last visit to London, as a "youngster" of just 62 (!),
with my Hungarian penfriend Tünde,riding the London Eye and
posing with some of the waxworks at Madame Tussauds
Now, 17 years later, and at the grand old age of 79, Lois and I never thought we'd visit London again. Yikes!
And neither of us can speak MLE (Multicultural London English), although we've tried to study a few key phrases (!).
These are the phrases we've learned so far:
"Oh my days !!!!!"
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzz!!!!!!
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