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Those of you who know me will know I watch a fair amount of tv, but it’s a long time since I’ve watched anything new. This last week and a bit I’ve been on leave with very little to do since my holiday was cancelled and over the week I’ve caught a few new tv shows.

The IT Crowd

My brother told me a long time ago I should watch this. I caught episode 1 this afternoon and it’s looking like a good laugh! It’s almost a novelty these days to find a show that’s only 30min not an hour, and with the series each being so short, I think I might carry on with this one! The other bonus is that every episode is on 4od, so I can work my way through at any old pace!

Franklin & Bash

So, I saw a trailer for this with Mark-Paul Gosselaar of Saved By The Bell fame, alongside the guy that played the skateboard guy in Clueless! Seemed like something to check out! Basically it’s a law programme, which don’t normally interest me, but it really was quite funny in it’s own way. These aren’t ordinary lawyers! To be honest though, I’m just excited to see some 90s stars back on the tele 🙂 I’d like to keep watching this but the episodes are an hour a piece. Again, they’re available on 4od, but expiring a month after they’re aired, so a little pressure to keep up!

Jonathan Creek

This felt like I was watching something with my parents. Very cleverly written, I was definitely completely drawn in to the one episode I watched, staying to the end to find out how it was done. But at an hour a time and a little drawn out, without catching the start of an episode unintentionally, I’m not sure I’d make the time to actively sit down and watch it again – happy to watch it if nothing else is on!

I’ve also been introduced to a couple of shows like Toddlers & Tiaras, which was one of the weirdest, disturbing shows ever – toddler beauty pageants, if they must exist, should not involve that much makeup, and definitely not bikinis!

While I’ve been writing this post I’ve watched another IT Crowd episode…. definitely light viewing!

I learnt something new today, courtesy of the latest Stuff Christians Like blogpost:

“Recently, a friend of mine told me that the David Crowder Band was breaking up. I like them, both musically and beardedly. In that order. I never put a person’s facial hair above their music. That’s one of the rules I live my life by. Unless they’ve got a monkey tail, which apparently is a thing now.

What’s that you say? Well, you grow one sideburn very long. Then you grow it into a beard that goes down one side of your face, over your chin and finally curves under your nose like the tail of a monkey. Then you move to Brooklyn.”

I googled and found you an example

I think this falls under the thing-that-would-be-fun-to-do-as-you-shave-off-a-beard-but-not-to-keep category! I wonder if Dave Gorman had this in his list of drawings when he nearly shaved his beard in his Googlewhack Adventure…?

If i ever met another Ineke I really don’t know how I’d cope.

I’ve met an Ineke before, but I’m named after her, so it’s not quite the same.

Recently at work we’ve started to get more people with the same name as our staff grows, but I’ve always assumed there’ll never be another Ineke. But what if there was? There *are* other Ineke’s in the UK, it’s not entirely infeasible. But I think I’d freak out.

Last summer I was at a conference/festival thing, and we were talking in groups about ‘what defines us.’ Well, as I spent the first couple of minutes telling them my name then having to answer questions on pronunciation and where it’s from, I said my name seems to be a lot of what I am!

If I met another Ineke who I was going to come into contact with regularly, I think that’d be really weird…

I’ve not done that well with this post-a-week think, Quelle Suprise! But what I have done, is kept all the emails of post idea’s in a folder, and as and when I find the motivation, I’ll pick some out and use them, so here’s one I just found:

When teleportation is finally possible, where will you beam yourself first?

There’s actually a couple of questions you could take from this that would give very different answers, so I thought I’d try a couple of variations, and I’m sure I’ve missed out some other good’uns!

• When teleportation is finally possible, where will you beam yourself first?
  The other side of the planet. While the UK is getting warmer, when I’m at work we have a web page showing us the weather in all the partner country offices, and right now, Australia and New Zealand are the places to be!
• When teleportation is finally possible, what one place would you have a permanent teleportation station?
  I think Romsey. There’s many other places I’d love one, Bath being another major contender, but at the end of the day, I know most people in Romsey, my family’s there, and I go there far more often than Bath.
  …That or work!