Cheap telly and general round up.

I do like my cheap and rubbish telly programmes. Nothing sordid, you understand, like those in which Sky specialise. Nope, the cheap and cheerful programmes I like are those like Living TV's Most Haunted, and as shown tonight, Most Haunted Live, three hours of live action Scooby Doo with earnest reportage, ham mediums and credulous investigators wandering around 'haunted' locations with the lights out using night vision cameras.

Nothing ever happens, or rather when it does it is entirely equivocal, and the so-called 'evidence' is really nothing of the sort. But it's marvelous. Presented by Yvette Fielding (remember her), the arch screamer and terror machine, with Derek Acorah, the one time Liverpool footballer turned psychic (what is it with retired footballers? I mean there's David Icke and his mind control lizards out there, too....), this is just the sort of programme to hook millions and cost virtually nowt.

I am pretty sure that when it gets too quiet, the director nudges Derek Acorah over an earphone to 'get possessed' and he does. It's so ham it can't be kosher. Bloody marvelous. A new series starts on Tuesday, but before that, Monday night has the final Most Haunted Live of this sequence. I'll have the crisps and dip ready at nine...

Now turning to good quality TV shows, I was a little annoyed to find that one of the episodes on my Band of Brothers DVD collection really does not want to play on romney's DVD player. This is particularly annoying since I have the same model, and bought the DVD set too long ago to reasonably send it back. Bugger.

Having said that, I've just tried it out on the PC where it plays just fine, although the voice over sounds as though it was recorded in the most cavernous of hangars and I can't work out how to tone down the reverb on my PC..

Oh, digital technology thou art an inconstant friend.

In other news, the mouse (or mice) continues to run amok, but avoiding the poison and glue traps. It is surely only a matter of time before I get the bugger(s) however. I have borrowed some foam sealant, and tomorrow evening after work, I shall be filling any hole that looks like any member of the order rodentia might have used with expanding foam which has a nice cyanide base. That'll larn 'em. Burrow through and die or go round and into the traps.

The thing that worries me is that there is no evidence that the Polish Brigade ^tm have noticed anything mouse-like, so I am feeling persecuted just because I have a blocked off chimney place in my room. Pah.

Cheap telly and general round up.

I do like my cheap and rubbish telly programmes. Nothing sordid, you understand, like those in which Sky specialise. Nope, the cheap and cheerful programmes I like are those like Living TV's Most Haunted, and as shown tonight, Most Haunted Live, three hours of live action Scooby Doo with earnest reportage, ham mediums and credulous investigators wandering around 'haunted' locations with the lights out using night vision cameras.

Nothing ever happens, or rather when it does it is entirely equivocal, and the so-called 'evidence' is really nothing of the sort. But it's marvelous. Presented by Yvette Fielding (remember her), the arch screamer and terror machine, with Derek Acorah, the one time Liverpool footballer turned psychic (what is it with retired footballers? I mean there's David Icke and his mind control lizards out there, too....), this is just the sort of programme to hook millions and cost virtually nowt.

I am pretty sure that when it gets too quiet, the director nudges Derek Acorah over an earphone to 'get possessed' and he does. It's so ham it can't be kosher. Bloody marvelous. A new series starts on Tuesday, but before that, Monday night has the final Most Haunted Live of this sequence. I'll have the crisps and dip ready at nine...

Now turning to good quality TV shows, I was a little annoyed to find that one of the episodes on my Band of Brothers DVD collection really does not want to play on romney's DVD player. This is particularly annoying since I have the same model, and bought the DVD set too long ago to reasonably send it back. Bugger.

Having said that, I've just tried it out on the PC where it plays just fine, although the voice over sounds as though it was recorded in the most cavernous of hangars and I can't work out how to tone down the reverb on my PC..

Oh, digital technology thou art an inconstant friend.

In other news, the mouse (or mice) continues to run amok, but avoiding the poison and glue traps. It is surely only a matter of time before I get the bugger(s) however. I have borrowed some foam sealant, and tomorrow evening after work, I shall be filling any hole that looks like any member of the order rodentia might have used with expanding foam which has a nice cyanide base. That'll larn 'em. Burrow through and die or go round and into the traps.

The thing that worries me is that there is no evidence that the Polish Brigade ^tm have noticed anything mouse-like, so I am feeling persecuted just because I have a blocked off chimney place in my room. Pah.

Thar she blows

Am I the only person who appreciates the irony, given its history since 1959, of Cuba being threatened by Ivan?

Thar she blows

Am I the only person who appreciates the irony, given its history since 1959, of Cuba being threatened by Ivan?