Afternoon TV

I was off sick for a couple of weeks and got completely addicted to 'A Place in the Sun'. I was inspired by the British man running a football camp for kids during the summer months, who couldn't get the natives to understand that in 100 degree F heat, kids need to have more than one small bottle of water apiece. Ironside was great. I still like the theme music; Weee wooo weee wooo! Daytime telly is great, and not for the faint of heart.

Ben, you do realised that Diagnosis Murder is one of my reasons it is good to be a human being? I love it. I love Dick Van Dyke with his silky white hair and his comedy rollerskates (he used to rollerskate everywhere in the earlier ones). I love he's given his ever-changing hair coloured son, the accurately named 'Barry', a job. I love detective dramas sans exception. I even liked Petrotrelli. And I fancied Ironside. And Murder She Wrote was the reason, the real reason, I wanted to write. Oh yes. That afternoon slot is so perfect it could kill me. I've seen this one before. I know how it ends...

DVD is so smart. Another doctor was the killer, you see. And he tried to kill DVD by injecting him with something that would give him a heart attack. I watched in horror as DVD fell to the floor and began to lose consciousness. And then, out of nowhere, DVD's son, BVD, burst into the room with guns and shouting and so on. Casually as you like, DVD stood up. He wasn't having a coronary after all. He'd had the foresight to replace the contents of the syringe with something harmless. Saline solution, pehaps. He'd done this sometime before the start of the scene. We didn't see him do it. So when he was falling to the floor with his coronary, it was all just a sham, you see, to make the evil doctor confess to killing Troy. The denoument was a cheery little scene about computer viruses. Time for some tea and a ciggie, I think.

In an amasing coup for me the other week I for my boss to agree that I could opccasionally work from home. Although I suspect I will be very boring and actually work instead of watching telly.

In my defence, I have been working, but I admit to having the TV on the background today. I've been doing a lot of working from home of late. I get a day's work done in half the time, which leaves me more time to do other things. Sometimes I do nothing in the day and do a good 6 hours at night instead. I like the flexibility but imagine it would be lonely if it was every day. Once or twice a week is nice. Must go - Bodger and Badger is on.

Is this better than Inspector Morse? It isn't just his cleverness and imaginative approach that I love about Morse. It is that complete Englishness about the whole show. Also we often see Morse "Stuck" in his investigations then we almost experience the breakthroughs with him. This is why the blurb on the back is so true "You don't just watch Morse, you live it." jude "Cacoethes scribendi" http://www.judesworld.net(link is external)

I'm forever amused by the idea that Sloane isn't a real doctor, but a bumbling pensioner tolerated by the hospital staff, who likes to stop in on patients, take their pulse, and then announce: "My diagnosis? Murder." ~ I'll Show You Tyrants(link is external) * Fuselit(link is external) * The Prowl Log(link is external) * Woe's Woe(link is external)

I hate daytime television and loathe its smugness. Mind you I am thinking of getting a hip bath. But living as I do next to Hampstead Heath, I can always go and watch men fondling one another. Only marginally more interesting than watching 'Dr. Quim Medicine Woman.'