TV night last week didn't get written up coz we were away - and it was a triple bill (as we weren't up very early on the Thursday morning). So hopefully I can remember something about what we watched! This is probably going to be a bit briefer than usual ( Read more... )

No on-going series to watch this week, having finished A History of Christianity last week & also no more Pop Britannia recorded (disappointingly, coz we had another episode on disc but it turned out to be a repeat of one of the two we'd just seen). As we seem to have lined up half of the current BBC4 & BBCHD output to record (they're doing a ( Read more... )

J took the day off yesterday, so that we could go visit a museum :) We decided on the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, and actually managed to get ourselves up & out the house briskly enough to be in Cam before lunchtime! Before having our lunch we had a bit of a wander round the market (looking for a record stall J remembered from years ago, ( Read more... )

We had a very enjoyable yet busy weekend - my parents were visiting, so we had many meals out & visits to places. Even tho the weather didn't quite co-operate, we still managed to avoid the actual rain while we were out ( Read more... )

Having run out of Bettany Hughes programmes, we started the evening with the last episode of David Dimbleby's Seven Ages of Britain. The "Age of Ambition" which could, unfortunately, be better titled the "Age of Art Margaret Doesn't Like" ;) That's not entirely fair to the programme - the first half was interesting, and I liked some of the cuts ( Read more... )

Saturday was Pauline's birthday party, so we skipped Furry on Friday in the interests of being awake for Sat evening ;) We headed into London at about lunchtime, and were pleased to see that the trains were running properly & that the tube closures didn't actually affect anywhere we were going. We'd been thinking about going to the video games ( Read more... )