Saturday, 31 January 2009

Jackie and I spent the day with our grand-daughter Bethany – she is gorgeous and she beat me at Pairs and at Snakes and Ladders.

There have recently been many good television programmes and I have particularly enjoyed the superb Victorian Farm, Jim Al-Khalili's Science and Islam, Rageh Omaar's Islamic History of Europe, and of course Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's River Cottage. Tonight, Jackie and I enjoyed Neil Oliver’s excellent History of Scotland. And we still have lots of Darwin documentaries coming soon. My cup runneth over. The television scene is only darkened by the truly awful series on the unexplained in which poor Tony Robinson has to pretend that he might believe in reincarnation or witchcraft or faeries. Oh Dear, oh dear.