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Date: 22 June 2006 18:24:09
The seconds were ticking by on the clock on the church wall; the useful but dull meeting was all but over and those gathered were meant to be focusing ont he Lord. However, there was a distraction which meant that at the end of every prayer my eyes glided up to the clock and I have to admit to sitting there thinking please don't pray, just let us get home. As the clock struck nine the moderator closed the meeting and I sighed, allowing for the recap on the previous programme I had just enough time to get home.
As I got ready to rush out of the building I apologised I couldn't chat but I needed to get home to the tv - to which several people just said, "the Convent ?" I replied in the affirmative and legged it.
Now, I am not going to get anywhere near as over excited about it as I did the monestry. Then reality tv based on spiritual searching was new and exciting, now it is a standard part of tv fodder. That said it is an interesting programme (IMHO) as much because it focuses almost exclusively on women and older middle class women who haven't undergone plastic surgery as its religious content. At the beginning I thought that they were v. eccentric women being put in there, but as time has gone on I have realised that in many ways they are typical 21st century middle class, middle aged women, because there is no typical 21st century middle class middle aged woman.
I am finding it facinating; particularly the way it portrays the nuns as human beings with histories and personalities, rather than somehow dehumanising them because of their seperation from "the world". Certainly one of the better things I pay my licence fee for.