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Date: 28 November 2004 08:57:50
I spent the whole day on the sofa - I mean it... I got up long enough to get some takeaway food from the local thai... and to hang out the washing. A whole weekend where idleness and sleep was the order of the day. Sorry to be blogging about such tedious behaviour, I swear there really is nothing else going on...
Actually, more precisely I spent the day watching the ABC (Public Television like the BBC or PBS).
It was largely because the other 4 channels were dominated by sport and as I consider cricket and golf 2 of the most tedious spectator sports I felt it to be the best of a bad lot... It was brilliant actually...
I watched Songs of Praise and was blessed by wonderful old songs and carols from Godmanchester, and then from Wells cathedral...
Then I increased my knowledge of the goings on of rural Australia by watching Landline... Got inspired and amused by Gardening Australia, the presenter is a trip... Then Message Stick where I learned how to cook with indigenous foods, watched the Young (classical) performers awards and then went to the opera to see the tragic story 'The Stepdaughter'... By that time I was ready for some fun and hauled out Singing in the Rain from my small video collection.
It is such a good thing to have public television, not the least because it has no advertising but above all because it provides quality programming that broadens one's horizons rather than narrows them. I hope public opinion continues to stand behind the ABC and continues to encourage government to support it with cash. Though I am the first to admit I don't often choose to go to it first. Yet I am always glad when I do...
If I hadn't been watching today I would never have realised that I get to watch a series about King Henry the 8th and his wives over the next couple of weeks... An admirable substitue for CSI don't you think???