I Can See Clearly Now
Well, I settled down to watch A Very Social Secretary this evening. Bernard Hill as David Blunkett was uncanny. It was HIM. he had every nuance of the erstwhile home secretary's behaviour down to the last strangled giggle. Robert Lindsay, as Tony, also, I though, managed to convey the strange amalgam of forcefullness, timidity and cowardice that I have always believed God's right-hand man (after Dubya)was manufactured from.A witty script should also be applauded. Clap.
But the "thick Northener" always out for a scrap was lazy writing in my opinion. "D'yer think yer can tek on a Sheffield lad"? Laughable. And the idea that a Northener had never experienced oral (or, in Blunkett's case, aural) sex before, was hard to believe. I can understand that shagging the night away in a little cottage provided by aristocracy just might have an edge on downing pints of best in a Sheffield Working Man's Club with overweight, intellectually challenged drunks, but, purlease, is everyone south of Watford as rich as Croesus and blessed with the social skills of Gore Vidal? I don't think so, otherwise they wouldn't be planning to rebuild that pointless pier at Saaarfend for the third time in twenty years or so.
So, c'mon, let's debunk this everything south = good; everything north = bad shall we. I know you're a scriptwriter/musician/playright/designer/politician/Richard and Judy but, FFS, catch a train/plane/camel/National Express and experience life - yes life, it DOES exist - elsewhere. Mind you, not too many of you, we don't want you artificially inflating house and beer prices by moving up here because it only takes 30 minutes to travel 20 miles - from the centre of a city!
It's good to see a free digital channel opening on Freeview that offers some thought-provoking programmes. I guess the last was BBC4, and very good it is too - certainly better than the numerous "Price-Drop", "QTV" and various other bags of shopping crap that have proliferated since the service started and we were told that there would be very few shopping channels cluttering up the bandwidth.
Some decent films and documentaries coming up as well. So check out the schedule in the link above.
Nighty Night. (Still crap).
3 comments:
We were looking forward to that last night only to discover that our cable provider doesn't have more4 yet. bloody annoyed I was!
i love saaarfend pier, me. my old nan used to take us to saaarfend loads. there was a giant fibreglass lobster outside c&a in the victoria shopping centre which i'm sure you'll agree is a draw in anyone's book
Totally unconnected to your recommendation I stumbled upon BB4 last night and was treated to the Cream reunion gig from the RAH. Excellent stuff, I'm already checking out the lisings.
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