A Smaller and Simpler Life: TV

Tuesday, 10 November 2020

Totally Random Viewing

The television is a friend at the moment, there's only so many doggy walks I can go on before Suky's little legs give up the ghost and I would need a skateboard for her to sit on to go any further or any more often.

The other day I had a very random days TV watching. I started off with a couple of episodes of Coal House, this was actually from my DVD collection but was a television programme from way back in 2007. It's good watching and the sort of programme that will always hold my attention.

Halfway through the first Coal House disc I decided to make my lunch and had a change of viewing, a shmaltzy American Christmas film that I had recorded the day before, At first I thought I had seen it before as I recognised one of the buildings but as the star stepped through the front door it was completely different inside ... obviously a frequently used Christmas film set!!

You just know the outcome of these movies but on a dreary day a bit of escapism outweighs the fact that you have just given up ninety minutes of time that you will never see again, just for the moment at the end when you go 'awww', and the credits rolls with the main stars happy in each others arms and the whole town singing of Christmas wonder.

Then after a whizz around with the hoover I settled down to watch the second Nanny McPhee film, not quite as good as the first in my opinion, but for a dull day more escapism and brilliant interior farmhouse sets.

Later in the day I went back to Coal House and finished the first disc of the two disc set. When I've finished this series I might just start on the second which sees, as far as I remember, three different families living in the same miners cottages but during the war years.

Yep, they definintely all look different!!

So the one thing that is getting a lot of use at the moment in my new little flat is my second hand bargain sofa 😄

What have you been watching recently and which medium do you watch on?

Here at the flat I have Freeview television for normal television viewing via an aerial, an Amazon Firestick so I can watch all the catch-up channels and favourite YouTubers on the big screen (not that mine is actually that big) and Netflix ... and of course my huge DVD collection. Which all adds up to more than enough to keep me entertained through these lockdown days and beyond.

My name is Sue ... and I am not ashamed to say I do love television!!

Sue xx

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