51. That Perishin' Profile!.

SORRY IF YOU'RE DISAPPOINTED.

After four months that Perishin' Profile is finally sorted.
I tried to complete it a couple of times before but, needless to say, lacked the facility.
Had no usable picture and, even if I had, would probably not have sussed out how to make it appear to order.
Am hopelessly impatient with instructions whether written or verbal. In my early years the army was full of gits giving orders.
Furthermore, the save button never seemed to save a word
I spoke again, on Skype, to our son in Cornwall.
'Think you could do something about this perishin' profile picture, Neil?'
'Sure. I've got some pictures we took while you were here in August. I'll sort something out.'
He did.
Downloaded and saved it, too.
That day.
The rest I just completed here on the Island.
If you are my reader I'm sorry if you're disappointed.
I didn't think it was that bad a picture of an old geezer, but I got a bit of a shock when the Blogging Ed translated my birth date into years.
Christ! Am I really that old?

THOSE TRIPPINGONWORDS GIRLS.

Oh well, though I doubtless qualify as one of the do-nothing-go-nowhere negative influences they abhor, I still enjoy visiting the blogsite of those TrippingOnWords girls.
They're what the future is about.
I was fascinated by the dunking experts.
In England the word dunk is used only to describe dipping part of a biscuit (cookie) into a drink (usually tea or coffee) before eating it. The use of the word as a description for dropping a ball through a net is something new to me.
Good, though.
Took me right back to the fabulous Harlem Globe Trotters.
Enjoy Las Vegas, you two.
And good luck to Claire's dad next year.

THE VIEWING WEEK.

They've all been on the box again.
NCIS on Channel Five has gone back to Series 1.
I do wish they wouldn't do that.
It's like the old Danny Kaye song where he intones: 'This is a picture that ends in the middle for the benefit of the people who came in in the middle...this, this is the end!'
Well it really is the bitter end.
Anybody who saw the first series would have to be totally uncritical to watch it again straight after the second series.
Programme planners? I spit!

CSI MIAMI (Channel Five) is still running previously unscreened series four.
Trouble is, at 25 episodes a series I can't help feeling the stories are often rehashes of those done in previous episodes or series, or on ol' Bill Petersen's CSI, or on CSI NY or even on Murder, She Wrote. I jest, Ms.Lansbury, I jest!

TORCHWOOD (BBC2) continues to entertain.
Russell T. Davies and Toby Whitehouse were the writers for Greeks Bearing Gifts this week.
The series was the brainchild of the former and anything he is involved in is going to be watchable.
The man is a seriously gifted television writer.

THE STATE WITHIN (BBC1) heads towards a conclusion equalled only by the real life drama surrounding poisoned former KGB opponents of the current Russian regime.
Sir Mark Brydon (Jason Isaacs) is rushing around punching people in the face because they may or may not have been involved in the ungodly goings on which beset him.
His few friends are dropping like flies.
It's the last episode next week.
I hope I can understand a bit more by the time it ends.

JAM AND JERUSALEM (BBC1) Never judge any television series on the first episode.
The second episode of this pleasant little village mockery was much less hilarious than the opener.
I still have high hopes, though.
Love Joanna Lumley.
And do so hope the lollipop lady will be back.

FOOTIE - Uefa Cup (Channel Five)
It was Eintracht Frankfurt v Newcastle United on Thursday. I asked the cat Shadow if he wanted to watch and he said Newcastle beat Pompey last Saturday. So sod 'em.
He really is a very bad loser.