Picture from BBC
Obviously today felt like a Monday didn't it? Hello? Is this thing on?
I'll be glad when this week is over so the confusion can cease. I know there's no real confusion, in fact I quite like the fact that there are two four day working weeks lined up together. If I wasn't also a self-employed writer and Jack-of-all-media then I would have probably enjoyed it more because I wouldn't have anything to do apart from eat chocolate and watch James Bond. On the other hand, if I wasn't a writer/broadcaster/journalist/everything else then I wouldn't be inclined to write a daily blog so we'd all be better off. One thing I have noticed is that now I don't see so much of my daughter Emily I get to appreciate Bank Holidays such as Easter; parents miss out on Bank Holidays because they generally happen during school holidays when they are already off school with their children.
Talking of work, the interview I did with Georgie Rose is now on the Nottingham Post website, a shorter version will appear in Friday's newspaper for those who live in Nottingham and surrounding areas. If anyone is able to get to Bodega on Friday 17th then I highly recommend you attend.
I feel as if I am back in the swing of things work wise, at the moment I am putting the finishing touches to Saturday Breakfast and preparing for a meeting on Friday regarding the making of a fully blown grown up documentary film. To be perfectly honest I don't have a great deal to write about in this blog but that isn't going to stop me, it never has before. After the anarchy and violence of Bottom we have moved on to another sitcom boxset with a slightly slower pace. My Easter present to Mandi was the complete Keeping Up Appearances, a show that I didn't watch properly when it was first broadcast. I don't personally understand why she is such a big fan of this programme; together we have watched Spaced, The Mighty Boosh, and Big Train alongside the American sitcoms Friends and Frasier so for Mandi to be so keen on such a traditional show is bizarre. What makes it stranger is that Keeping Up Appearances is such a traditional 'darling I'm home' sitcom (the British equivalent of the American 'Hi honey I'm home') and yet she does not share, in fact she cannot stand, my enjoyment of On The Buses, Bless This House, Terry and June and the like.
Keeping Up Appearances is cut from the same cloth as the domestic sitcoms of the 1970s and 1980s. It astounds me that such a programme was commissioned in the first place given that it ran between 1990 and 1995, it's as if The Young Ones made no difference. Hyacinth Bucket (sorry Bouquet) is a character out of the sitcom wife template that began with Lucille Ball and carried on through the Whitehall farce style of sitcom in which the husband goes to work in an office and leaves his wife at home to cause the sort of chaos that results in a lot of running in and out of doors and hiding in wardrobes. I've watched a couple of episodes so far and am waiting for the one where the boss comes round for dinner.
This week's edition of The Sunday Alternative can be heard here.
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April housekeeping
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