Thursday, 4th April 2013
Tuesday and Wednesday were fairly awful days at work - busy, hectic, deeply panicked - but today wasn't nearly as bad. That was quite nice.
Also: Conor loaned me the entire collected box set of 'Yes Minister' and 'Yes Prime Minister' (the good original one, not the new rubbish one) and I have been mainlining them like they're going out of fashion. They are utterly superb - the dialogue is sharp, witty, incisive and hilarious. Apparently, in the 80s the show used to be really popular with people in politics because it so accurately reflected the truth of government, and that suddenly puts a lot of the 80's (and today's) politics into amusing perspective.
Was tickles me is that, thirty years on, the topics in politics are all the same now as they were when this was being filmed: Trident, nuclear war with unstable world governments, oil in the Middle East, popularity competitions in internal politics, etc etc etc.
When I've finished this, then I'll start on the complete collected disc set of Cabin Pressure. (I know I'm coming late to this party, but hey, gotta start somewhere.)
To make me feel better about life, I spent today watching adorable videos on YouTube.
SMOOSHY DOGS LOOK AT THEM SCHWUFFLING
If baby wombat wants tummy scritches, baby wombat gets tummy scritches.
Also: Conor loaned me the entire collected box set of 'Yes Minister' and 'Yes Prime Minister' (the good original one, not the new rubbish one) and I have been mainlining them like they're going out of fashion. They are utterly superb - the dialogue is sharp, witty, incisive and hilarious. Apparently, in the 80s the show used to be really popular with people in politics because it so accurately reflected the truth of government, and that suddenly puts a lot of the 80's (and today's) politics into amusing perspective.
Was tickles me is that, thirty years on, the topics in politics are all the same now as they were when this was being filmed: Trident, nuclear war with unstable world governments, oil in the Middle East, popularity competitions in internal politics, etc etc etc.
When I've finished this, then I'll start on the complete collected disc set of Cabin Pressure. (I know I'm coming late to this party, but hey, gotta start somewhere.)
To make me feel better about life, I spent today watching adorable videos on YouTube.
Click to viewSMOOSHY DOGS LOOK AT THEM SCHWUFFLING
If baby wombat wants tummy scritches, baby wombat gets tummy scritches.