A rather restless night -
up for the loo several times during the night. I blame yesterday's
over-indulgence. We finally got up at 10am, and after a light
breakfast we waved goodbye to those who'd stayed over for the night.
The original plan for the
day had us going out and doing something, but unfortunately for
reasons of economy that wasn't possible, so we stayed in.
So, after a flying visit
from Fudge and his entourage, we had a catch-up session with what
we'd missed seeing on the telly over the last few days: Sky-Plus is a
wonderful thing.
First of all we watched
"Charlie's Angels". An entertaining enough program
which really would benefit from the addition of a plot. Today's show
featured our heroines being locked up in a Cuban jail. And having
been locked up for quite some time, our heroines all still had
immaculate make-up.
Then we watched the
Christmas "Doctor Who", which started off as an
episode of "Things Exploding" and carried on in much
the same vein until about twenty minutes after I'd (quite frankly)
lost interest in the show. And just as the show started getting to be
worth watching, it turned silly again. If I'd been watching it on my
own, there's no denying I would have missed the best bits because I
would have turned it off after the first fifteen minutes.
Much as I've always liked
"Doctor Who", over the last few years the program
seems to be becoming far more comic and slapstick that ever it used
to be. The Doctor never used to be a comedian. In all honesty, these
days I find myself watching the program out of a sense of feeling I
ought to watch it rather than because I actually enjoy the show any
more.
Over a lunch of cold
meat, pickles and home-brewed stout we then watched the Christmas
episode of "Downton Abbey". In retrospect I could
have done with reading up on what had happened during the last season
as there was a lot of continuity from the last episodes that I
couldn't remember, but the program was well worth watching.
Even if the nobs did wind
up laughing and the servants wound up in the chokey. But such is
life.
A slice of "er
indoors TM"s' home-made Christmas cake,
and then we did some catching up with "Terra Nova":
somehow we'd managed to get three episodes behind. I do like that
series; and with believable characters you can forgive it the
occasional plot hole. (Like meteors going upwards).
We've now seen all of
season one of that show - I hope they make a second season - however
it
says on Wikipedia that no decision about a second season will be
made just yet.
And being Tuesday the
tribes gathered and we watched "A Christmas Carol":
the Disney version from two years ago. Normally I'm not a fan of
things Disney, but this film was quite enjoyable. For all that we
don't have a single blu-ray disk, the blu-ray player comes in useful
from time to time...
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