A thoroughly nasty day weather-wise for the last day of March, raining pretty much all day.
Lois and I would like to stay in and just consort with each other, but it's no good, we realise we have got to go out, late morning - I need to get my repeat prescription for statins from the chemist, and we need to get some groceries we forgot to get last time. Luckily Lois spots some jam doughnuts in the Coop which will make tea-time taste all the sweeter, no doubt about that! Little things like this help to keep us going you see, haha!
16:00 We settle down on the couch and eat our jam doughnuts and do the puzzles in next week's Radio Times.
we settle down on the couch with our jam doughnuts and
our copy of next week's Radio Times - focussing on the puzzle page
we break out next week's Radio Times,
and turn to the puzzle pages as excitement mounts!
We finish up with "Only Connect" - this week the categories turn out to be (1) characters from the Friends sitcom, (2) words for a child, (3) writers of books about crime or related areas(?), and (4) misspelled English counties: corset, demon, dent and cornwell = Dorset, Devon, Kent and Cornwall.
See? Simples!!!
And then, to top it all, as the climax of our efforts and as this afternoon's finale, Lois finds a rude word in the "Trackword" puzzle, but let's face it, you can't reject words, just because they're "not nice", can you. Be fair !!!!
Rude or embarrassing words are a hazard of all word games - over the years there have been no end of embarrassing words popping up on the afternoon Countdown game-show on Channel 4. Each contestant is faced with a random 9-long mixture of vowels and consonants, and they have to make the highest-scoring, i.e. longest words that they can, so you have to be prepared for the occasional embarrassment, don't you.
Be fair (again) haha!
Channel 4's "Countdown" game-show, with assistant presenter Rachel Riley,
who, by now, is used to maintaining her cool
"Orgasmed" isn't exactly a rude word, of course, and Lois and I happened to see that particular episode - and we remember that presenter Rachel Riley was suitably "non-non-plussed" (or should that be just "plussed"? - I think we should be told!), and that she maintained her usual sang-froid and poker face. However there have been some much ruder words that Countdown contestants have found in their random 9 letters from time to time (not shown). Oh dear!
17:30 Lois disappears into the kitchen to take part in her great-niece Molly's chair yoga class, "live from Leeds", on zoom.
"Live at Leeds": Lois's great-niece Molly, who teaches chair yoga on zoom
18:30 Lois emerges from her zoom session and we have dinner before settling down on the couch. We decide to watch the third and final episode of the first series of "Cockfields", about a couple, Simon and his girlfriend Donna, who are spending a long weekend on the Isle of Wight visiting Simon's mother and step-father, and step-brother David. The purpose of the trip is to celebrate Simon's 40th birthday.
Lois and I saw this sitcom for the first time last week. It ran for 2 seasons a couple of years ago on the subscription Gold TV channel, and the BBC have decided to give it a wider airing now on BBC2.
We'll be interested to see how the series develops, because Lois and I at once spotted a major problem with the scenario. Simon and Donna are a fairly ordinary couple, nice, and engaging, but not particularly funny in themselves. All the humour comes from their interactions with Simon's awful relatives, the ones that Simon and Donna are spending a long weekend with.
What will happen to the show's humour when the couple go back home at the end of the weekend, leaving their awful relatives back on the Isle of Wight?
I think we should be told, and quickly!
(left to right) nice couple Donna and Simon, with the oversolicitous mum Sue,
the hypercritical step-dad Ray, and the annoyingly stupid and cheery step-brother David
Larry, Sue's ex-husband, who is Simon's real dad, arrives
in company with his boozy new partner Melissa
Well, glad you asked! You see, anybody who knows anything about the English class system, English posh and non-posh accents and cultures etc, will know that a man like Larry would never have been married to a woman like Sue.
Larry is played by Nigel Havers, an actor who we acknowledge is doing his best to modify and tone down his usual upper-class accent and manner for the sake of the plot, but he can only achieve limited success. Yes, he looks perfect with his boozy, snobby new girlfriend Melissa, but I can't believe he would ever have been married to Sue - it's just not possible !!!!
Melissa, played by Sarah Parish, is quite entertaining in herself, however. She arrives drunk and gets drunker [Is that a word? - Ed], as Simon's 40th birthday family party proceeds. And she has some unexpected confessions to make.
21:00 We wind down before bed with tonight's edition of Gogglebox, in which a set of Goggleboxer households are filmed en famille, watching, and commenting on, some of this week's TV programmes.
Tonight we're promised that the Goggleboxers will also be looking at David Attenborough's "Wild Isles" and the new "jazzed up" version of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations", both of which we saw.
As expected, the Goggleboxers are not too impressed with the part of "Wild Isles" which shows the male rabbits' habit of peeing on their females before they mate with them, a shock-horror fact revealed in my blog post for last Sunday, after Lois and I watched the original programme
Flashback to the review in my blog post:
flashback to the review in my blog post for Sunday 26th
And predictably, the Worthington family's teenage daughter Helena isn't too impressed with the male rabbit's habits of peeing on his female before they start mating.
the Worthington family: Alison and George Worthington (left)
with their teenage daughter Helena, watching rabbits preparing to mate on "Wild Isles"
Helena says that what the female's probably thinking is "Just shag me. Get it over with. Just stop spraying piss on me! Just do what you need to do and go!" To which her mother comments, "You've said that before", and Helena has to acknowledge that that's true.
My goodness what a crazy world we live in !!!!
22:00 What Lois and I are really waiting for, however, is the Goggleboxers' reactions to the new "jazzed up" version of Great Expectations. We're out of luck, however, because the Channel 4 catch-up app fails us at just the wrong moment, so we'll have to see that another time - damn!
We go to bed - zzzzzzzz!!!!!
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