Perfect Holiday

It was billed as Perfect Holiday

“Can three travel experts determine your perfect holiday from the contents of your wardrobe? This week Russell Amerasekera, Simon Calder and Jennifer Cox sneak into the Blackpool home of local singer Fiona Teal. After surprising her in Blackpool Tower with the news that she’d been nominated, Fiona’s off on a VIP tour of Hollywood and Las Vegas ending in her fulfilling a lifetime’s ambition. ”

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What it turned out ot be was car crash TV, TV so bad you couldn’t help but watch.

So the premise is some poor soul with a hard life is nominated by a friend for a dream holiday. So we ask the person where they want to go? No that would be too simple. We break into their house rifle around when they are not there snoop through their private things with a film crew and generally take the piss out their awful taste.
Then we ignore all the Disney memorabilia and decide to send them to… Las Vegas.

They end up going to Hollywood, Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon. However the campest presenter (Russell Amerasekera) in the world with the worst dress sense ever goes with them – so we are now wondering who’s holiday this really is, the poor person with bad life (plus friend) or the campest presenter ever.
Then we have to put up with Russell saying every ten seconds ‘so I’ve decided to take them here’ or ‘I’ve decided to buy them this’ where what I think he meant was “I’m spending your license fee on taking them here” and “I’m spending your license fee buying them this”.

Then finally after making her recount her awful life story (although the holiday was so she could forget all about it) they get all sickly and make her get up on stage in Las Vegas and sing in front of a thousand strangers. Very relaxing, very dream holiday.

Awful Awful Awful TV.

It made me want to rip up my license fee and send it back to the BBC and sell my TV.

Where did they find that awful presenter and can they send him back immediately please before he becomes popular with the masses. During the show his clothes went from awful to ridiculous, someone buy that man a mirror!

Oh and also the poor northern women 🙂 She says ‘ooh what would your wife think’ – does she have no clue? the campest man in the world is more likely to be a wife bless!

Happy Birthday to me :)

Ooh Ooh another year.
So yesterday I was officially 33. I was in need of a quiet affair since the festivities are all planned for next weekend and I’m still not 100% and on antibiotics.
So got up late. Went to the Trafalgar in Tooting for pub lunch with Jacs, Nick and Helen. Went home. Snoozed until late. Went to bed.
Who says I’m past it 😉
Also despite requesting no presents I received an excellent gift. The box set of 24 series 1. So I’ll be booking out time to watch that again soon. Hopefully before the new series starts on February 16th.

It was BBC Three‘s Birthday too yesterday. I’ve seen all the adverts heralding the new digital channel from the beeb. So imagine my suprise when I discovered it wasn’t actually a new channel but a rebranding of BBC Choice. Who would have thought?

All tied up

I spent most of the day lying on the floor being tied up. Yes it was the third of my four days of British Red Cross first aid training. Next week is the exam. There are 22 of us in the group and I think today we all gelled a lot more – we had more role playing to do and I think we all felt a lot more confident.
I was just glad they didn’t give us fish again for lunch 🙂
The police are still outside the house in the road to the side of my flat. Now they have a crime scene evidence van too. I’m tempted to go and take some pictures but wonder if the police might object.
Watched 10am-12pm of 24 series 1 on BBC Choice. Andrew came round to help me finish last nights Indian takeaway and then the plan was to go to the 2 brewers. He fell asleep so I watched TV and pottered around.

Vegetarian

I’m now eating less and less meat. Today news from the BBC that meat in the UK is unfit for human consumption has made me think of just not eating meat again.
I used to be vegetarian, I have lots of meat alternatives and it seems to be a lot healthier. In fact I’ve not eaten meat since the end of December so maybe I already have made the choice and not realised it fully.

how awful – I was

how awful – I was just watching the news and all hell has broken loose – what is the world coming to? The Pentagon, WTC and thousands of innocent people. What is going on? fuck. I am watching from home on Sky news and CNN and BBC and all of them look the same – awful pictures of burning buildings that for all the world look like a film but you know it’s real.