Oh dear me, I'm not very happy today as I have hurt my neck and shoulder, in the usual way, just by sleeping and not doing anything odd. I was supposed to go on a hen day today, and a nice hen day at that, pottery painting at Doodles, afternoon tea at the Sheraton, pizza and chick flicks, that's my kind of hen celebration. However I'm best off being propped up by lots of pillows and some ibuprofen. I did haul myself out to the nearby Waterstones to get Harry Potter
though.
Since last autumn, Jon and I have been enjoying an HBO series called The Wire. Enjoying is perhaps an understatement, it's one of the best things on TV. Or not, if you are in the UK and don't have the channel FX. Why have C4 or BBC2 not bought this series, it really does deserve an outing on 'normal' telly. We first borrowed series one DVDs from a friend, and got so hooked that we looked out for the next two on special offer and bought them for ourselves. We recommend to everyone.
The Guardian has been championing the series for a while as well, and this week, if you are in the UK, you can watch the very first episode for free on their site. One the same page are links to articles from the Guardian about it. It's a cop show, but don't expect it to be the usual one where it's a story per episode and things get wrapped up every time, it's a slow burner and looks at one big drug baron in Baltimore and everything that revolves around him. Each series has taken a different angle, the first introduced it and focussed on the drugs world, the second showed how the hard-up dockers got involved and the third has concentrated on the political aspects. There are goodies and baddies, but all the characters have flaws and it's never entirely black and white. I recommend you give it a try, but you may find yourselves signing up for cable or wanting to rent the rest of the series. We're more than happy to lend out our DVDs to friends in Edinburgh (we also have the first series).
Sticking with the Guardian, if you haven't heard about Mike Read not running for London Mayor, go and read his blog on the paper's website, particularly the comments.
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