" a pocket full of horses "
ITEM! rest in peace clive hornby aka jack sudgen of emmerdale farm fame ( - i just heard on the radio that he died ) - he was the second jack sugden but i don't think the first one was in it for very long ( - he left the farm to become to become a novelist in the mid 1970s ) ( - i doubt if that's much of a soap "aspiration" these days ) - i used to watch it fairly regularly but not since the days of amos & mr wilks etc
ITEM! warning, celebrity masterchef spoilers follow: it might be from watching too much tennis but i think they should have some sort of "seeding" system in celeb masterchef - to stop some of the best cooks meeting ( & getting knocked out ) in the first round
three of the best cooks met in the very first programme, so we lost two of 'em when the mighty andi peters triumphed on the back of his banana & rum muffin - & then in the next gouple of glashes there were ppl who were unfamiliar with the goncept of knife, fork & spoon ( - i'm thinking of you, spencer moon ) - poor clare grogan in particular must've been gutted when she saw the low standard of subsequent cook offs
thus tonights quarter final has got two very goob cooks in it & two "with potential"
btw, "new mum" claire from steps = very fancy gompared to how she looked when she was a pop "star" ( - fern britton take note ) - i spose she does less dancing these days, which is much to her credit
ITEM! a gouple of dr who "fun facts" ( but no spoilers ) to get us in the mood for tomorrow's finale:
1. "the subwave network" funded or developed by the mister copper foundation - it bugged me for ages - i knew i'd heard the name mr copper somewhere before but couldn't recall where - my pal john put me out of my misery: mr copper was the tour guide that the dr saved in "voyage of the damned"
glad to see him making goob use of that gredit gard - & its nice that hyacinth's poor put upon richard from keeping up appearances is firmly ensconsed in the dr who mythos ( - as well as in alfred hitchcocks frenzy - tho he is married to billie whitelaw in that 'un, not patricia routledge )
2. the ( evil? ) fortune telling lady who put the time sucking beetle thingy on donna's back was the same actress who played the luvly & funny "chan tho" ( the professor's gompanion ) towards the end of season 3 - google tells me that her name = chipo chung & she also been in holby city and dalziel & pascoe - & that she was the "computer voice" in last year's dodgy sci fi flick sunshine
ITEM! it did make me laugh that "tiger" tim henman injured his throat gommentating on wambledon - so he didn't make it to the end of the second week after all - maybe next year, eh tim...? - of course, my tip for the top jelena jankovic got knocked out, so i've switched allegiances to serena w in the ladies - & play up rafa nadal...! ( - let's have a spanish tennis & football double )
ITEM! big brother: i'm not sure if i like ANY of 'em at the moment but it's still gompelling viewing - jennifer will obviously go tonite - all the reasons she gave for for nominating rachel ( being false, talking abt ppl being their backs etc ) actually apply to HER - but let's get rid of boring mo & rex soonish, please - otherwise it cld get very dull - unfortunately, mario seems to have positioned himself as essential to the group ( - a sort of muscley northern yoda, necessary to deal with all their health & safety goncerns & management issues ) - i still sort of like becky but she is being v.stupid & must be the most annoying person in the world to live with - luke = a proper little machiavelli, which i quite "admire" ( in a way ) - & sadly, kat & rachel's pained faces & weeping jags are getting annoying - so, horrible tory LUKE TO WIN ( - or maybe darnell )
( the above = subject to change, obv ) ( - esp when some new ppl go in & stir things up )
ITEM! if anyone else is going to today's mozfest & fancies meeting up, send me a text - otherwise HAVE A GOOB WEEKEND EVERYBODY...!