RE: Rugby, RESULT (post 10581)
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What a great game and result on Saturday! we started off as usual with a trip to Canterbury, where there was a local food fair on, with stalls and demonstrations and things, and lots of local food producers in attendance. Got some bread and some plants and some cider and some biscuits, would love to see events like this going on more often. Lunch at Wagamama for a rare treat and back to watch the rugby with the in-laws.
Power supply problems at my brother-in-laws in Etchinghill, fuses blowing, and we had the fear of missing the game. Some confusion over the suround sound on the TV saw someone hit the wrong button at just the wrong time, and the TV turned to static just as Josh Lewsey was powering towards the line at only a minute and a half in! A fantastic start to the game, I would imagine, we just about got up and running again in time for the replays. A tense game after that, we were cursing every kick Jonny missed, but he got there in the end. We stayed up far too late after the game drinking cider and wine we'd bought in town.
Sunday, a bit groggy, we shopped and not much else until the South Africa game in the evening, they're a bit too good, fingers crossed for the final on Saturday though. We have a family birthday celebration that day so it will heighten a victory or temper a defeat anyway.
Work, still very busy, the team is back up to strength again following a holiday, and hopefully we're getting more staff soon too.
Listening to more Rebus and also some Italian language lessons in far advance of next year's holiday. Watching, not much really, Our amazon dvd rentals have been held up by these postal strikes. From the little I know of the issue, I have no sympathy at all, but I don't want to say too much as I'm dependent on the post to deliver my Nan's birthday present tomorrow. Friendly posties, if you are reading this, please go back to work in the Kent and Hampshire regions now. We have had the occasional handful of mail here on the days between the strikes, whereas in SW1 where Clare works they've been hit by unofficial wildcat strikes on the days between official disruption.
In other TV watching news, there are too many poor quality food shows on at the moment, normally I love these, but Nigella Lawson and the Wild Gourmets just make me want to kick the telly in with their insincerity and artifice. Hoping we can get some sort of cable TV set up soon, for a bit more choice and then the power of recording too, so I can watch the daytime shows like Saturday Kitchen at a time convenient to me...
Damn, have I really been hosting that Amazon ad all this time with revenues going back to Channelfly?
Ciao!
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You need a PVR. I have been watching Saturday Kitchen on days that are not Saturday for a long time now, could not live without my Freeview PVR!
Simon :: 17 Oct :: 2007 :: Comment / reply
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We don't have and can't fit a proper aerial, so it doesn't seem worth trying to plug one into the bent coathanger arrangement we have at the moment. The TV has a really good receiver, so it manages OK on the portable aerial, but I'm not confident any other kit would. So, going to wait until I get cable, or move house.
17 Oct :: 2007 :: Comment / reply
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Bloody Nigella! I watched her for the first time the other week and I too wanted to kick the TV in. That's not a cookery show, it's a show where a woman talks about how much she likes eating and then eats some stuff. Anyone can arrange pre-packed food to look vaguely nice, I don't need TV to tell me how to do it! Okay, sorry, rant over.
Andy :: 16 Oct :: 2007 :: Comment / reply
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There was another show on, when Nigella was off air, a "how to make simple Indian food" type thing, and it was shit, and the woman doing the show reminded me of a really bad Nigella. There was hardly any cooking (and the cooking she did do was fried chicken and mango milkshakes and things that I didn't really want or expect from this show) and there was far too much of the hostess swanning to the temple and showing us how great her lifestyle is... I think Nigella saw this and made up her mind to try and be an even worse presenter than this other woman, so we have endless shots of Nigella honestly riding on busses drinking her flask of soup, YES, YOU DO THIS EVERY DAY.
Man alive, I need to go outside.
