2 (9) Back to square one – almost.

WATCHING.

Could you read it?

I am a grade 2 listed diabetic who has been very lucky; over the past couple of years, despite murmurings in the direction of age-related cataracts, the prescription from my optician has not changed. So I was able to read the tiny lettering (the apparent designer type size for Google Chrome is TNR14) in which Post 2 (8) appears. But it really is small, isn't it.? Google Chrome, of course, does not extend to the user the old fashioned choice of small, medium or large type size. Proof, were it needed, that no change, for whatever reason, is ever for the better.That having been said, an email, purporting to come from the Inland Revenue to tell me I may be due a refund (some hopes), arrived recently: it was promptly given the 'we cannot process this' treatment by those same Google buddies. Can't complain about that, can you? Anyway, I have gone back to square one – almost – and upped the type size for this contribution. See how it goes.

I'll sit anywhere dot com.

Two trays used by family members when snacking whilst watching tele (dreadful habit...don't tell me) had been stacked upside down on my footstool. The cat Shadow, being a cat, seized the opportunity. My Leader, who had only abandoned the trays for a few minutes, laughed:

“Look at that. I'll sit anywhere dot com.”

TELEVISION.

Gawdelpusitsgamesagain! 

Yep, games again. Tennis (the itches are back in force - Djokovic beat Federer in the men's final), golf (the Women's British Open blew through Royal Birkdale in windy weather) and footie (the World Cup was won by Germany on ITV and the Beeb at the same time). If you didn't follow any of it you had to read a book or go sky diving or mountaineering.

Alan Hansen.

The football pundit retired after the world cup. He played football as a central defender for Partick Thistle, Liverpool and Scotland and followed that with 22 years at the BBC as one of the experts on Match of the Day. This is a man who experienced the best and the worst in football moments. Cup and league successes were offset by both the Heysel and Hillsborough stadium disasters. His television work has shown him to be as cool a pundit as he was a player and he will be a very hard act to follow. Good luck and good golfing, Mr. Hansen.

THE DETECTIVES.

Grimm.

Another season finished and this time Nick has been divested of his Grimm status by the infuriating Adalind. If you are interested it looks as if Season 4 will start on October the 24th this year.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Apparently series 15 has been commissioned. It needs to be a little more positive than season 14, which seems to have lurched from the unlikely to the unbelievable with scarcely a twitch of Ted Danson's spectacles. Paul Guilfoyle, who has been Captain Jim Brass since the show's inception, will not be in it. Written out. Shame. We liked him. Good luck, tough guy.