Careful what you wish for

Not all the feedback I get about my blog comes through the comments feature, I get e-mails, have telephone conversations and people lie on my sofa eating wings and complain about me not talking about TV enough.

So over the past week or so, some of the things people have mentioned are these. Not enough philosophy, wrong philosopher, too much Jesus, wrong approach to Jesus, too much promiscuity in the L-Word - oh wait, no, that was someone's comment about the L-Word not my blog, not enough small talk, driving too slowly on the on-ramp (just checking to see who'd fallen asleep already) AND... not enough Hazel and Alex. That last one was from Hazel and Alex, I don't yet have a picture of Hazel, so I have posted one of Alex. I'm sure this will be remedied in the summer when Hazel comes to stay. For their information, particularly Alex who doesn't always read her e-mail, Kevin has now bought the tickets for Bard on the Beach.

So here's some TV stuff. There's a new American sitcom called 'Teachers' and this is one of the series that Carmen left the L-Word for. The advance sp on this was that it wasn't very good, but we find it quite engaging. It's funny and has some good characters, although personally I find Carmen's character rather a weak point, the others all gel together nicely, whereas Carmen, or rather Sarah Shahi as she really is, seems like a graft-on. The thing which particularly bugged me was that Kevin looked the series up in imdb.com and it claimed to be based on the British series 'Teachers'. This I found bizarre because the Brit series wasn't a half-hour sitcom, but an hour-long drama. A bit like saying that 'Scrubs' is based on 'ER'. Oh well.

On Saturday (small talk) we went out to buy some Tylenol (like paracetymol)and ended up spending $40 plus in Save-On. I hadn't taken the bag Di sent me because I wasn't expecting to buy much, but I always have my small emergency cloth bag in my handbag, so I took it out and the cashier packed it. Whilst I was paying, an elderly lady was studying my bag closely.
'What does 'scheib' mean?' she asked. I should have known that this would happen one day. My bag says 'meine Leute waren im Schwarzwald und alles was sie mitgebracht haben ist diese scheiß Tasche'. Yes, bad grammar and all. 'My folks were in the black forest and all they brought back was this shit bag'. I explained it to her. I said that I didn't think anyone would ever notice. She smiled and said good-humouredly,
'Well, it makes things more interesting doesn't it?'

I'm not really feeling in a Jesusy or philosophical mood this morning, so that bit isn't going to be covered, but Austen did send me the absolutely cutest picture ever of Holly holding her palm cross aloft. I'd love to share it by posting it here, but since my blog can be accessed by anyone on the internet, I thought better of it. Alex on t'other hand, well she's old enough. Not enough Alex and Hazel? Careful what you wish for my kitten.