After some truly filthy weather earlier in the week when I was visiting my parents, finally today managed to bring a couple of hours in which warmth, sunshine, and the absence of rain coincided. I would say, "Long may it continue!", but it is forecast to rain tomorrow. On the plus side there continues to be no need to mow the lawn ( Read more... )

Lucy Mangan, doing an excellent job of making me think I made the right decision in not getting round to watching the latest series of The X-Files. I shall attempt to quote a non-spoilery bit.

The Smoking Man is real, you see. Alive again, he plans to rid the world of the scourge of humanity because - oh, I don’t know. Because he’s evil? Knackered ( Read more... )

Just seen a trailer for a new Danish series on BBC4 this weekend, in English titles Below the Surface, and about people taken hostage on an underground train. With the trial of Peter Madsen* for the murder of Kim Wall on his submarine starting off tomorrow, I winced a bit. I can't help feeling that they might have done better to stick to the ( Read more... )

Meet the rusty spotted cat, native to Sri Lanka and India. They are not actually tiny, being 35 - 48cm long, but they are the world's smallest wild cat, and a rusty spotted cat kitten amidst some large leaves looks very tiny indeed.

Here it is:

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The BBC's Big Cats is a bit of a portmanteau programme, but well worth a watch, particularly when ( Read more... )

There are certain sentences that can really put one off what sounds like an otherwise potentially interesting, if not particularly new,* television programme, and this was certainly one of them:

Helping the professor enthuse about the “non-trivial values” that made Athens great is Boris Johnson.*I must write and suggest that maybe it is time for a ( Read more... )

(1) It's amazing how much worse you can make Harriet's revelation to Emma in Chapter 47 by changing a single word...

Emma, the crackfic version "I should not have thought it possible," she began, "that you could have misunderstood me! I know we agreed never to name him -- but considering how infinitely superior he is to every body else, I ( Read more... )

The Good Omens TV adaptation cast has been announced. It's not Youngest Sister and my fancast of David Thewlis and Paul Bettany, but we'll take it: Michael Sheen as Aziraphale and David Tennant as Crowley. Roll on 2018 (but not the Apocalypse).

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Some recent media viewing

VersaillesIt's absolute tosh, but it's fun tosh. There's a 10 minute section after each episode in which they tell you which bits are actually vaguely connected to reality, and which aren't. For someone with very little knowledge of the history of the period it manages to be quite educational. I certainly had no idea that ( Read more... )

LOTS of reindeer*, migrating from winter to summer pastures on NRK's latest snow TV. After a slow start when they weren't very interested in moving, they are finally on the march, though even this involves a lot of time standing around eating. Reindeer moss cannot be very nutritious, even for reindeer. Technically these are semi-domesticated ( Read more... )

It appears that a TV production of Good Omens is finally happening! On the upside, the BBC is co-producing it. On the downside, so it Amazon. On the really big downside, it's going to be on the BBC after it is on Amazon. Oh well, I suppose on the plus side if I hold out against Amazon, I'll avoid the fandom wanking ( Read more... )