For this week's bit of Twitter timewasting, I have mainly not been allowing the fact that I didn't actually watch more than about 3 minutes of the Royal Wedding to stop me from commenting wisely on it ( Read more... )

Well I did say my Twitter feed ( @nick730) would largely consist of me grumbling about the cold I had last week, but I think I managed to keep it to a minimum ( Read more... )

I should get time for a quick blog post later in the day but in the meantime Happy Christmas and here's the promised lowculture front pager, a quick look at some of today's TV - which seems to feature a lot of alternative versions of A Christmas Carol this year: Bah humbug.

Last night I had a neighbour banging on my door complaining that my laugh's too loud and she couldn't sleep. I guess I shouldn't watch tonight's Miranda (which I'll have had to record 'cause I'll be theatreing) until tomorrow morning then because if it's anything like last series I'll be making loud snorting noises again. All the time not being ( Read more... )

Second of this week's lowculture articles and unusually I'm flagging up a rerun. But when Miranda was first shown last year it didn't look that promising, yet ended up being a surprise favourite for a lot of people on the forums, including me, so a lot of people will have missed the early episodes. Not so much retro as about 30 years out of date, ( Read more... )