2016 November – Toy Audit, TV Tuning, One-upmanship

Toy Audit

This is a picture of me.  The humans have piled my toys onto me to see what  I’d do.

Obviously I am sighing and rolling my eyes but I really can’t be bothered to move.

I’m too comfy.  These aren’t even all of my toys because I have hidden some in the study.

So, hahaha, humans.  One nil to me.

 

TV Tuning

I have also been given the task of figuring out how to work the new TV.

It is supposed to be intuitive but it really isn’t. I have tuned in some of the channels but I got a bit bored with it so I am having a little snooze instead.

I’ll finish it off later.

There’s nothing on TV these days anyway.

 

One-upmanship

Mum added Music last month so I’m keeping up the new tradition and adding Reading and Films.  A little bit of one-upmanship – well strictly speaking two-updogship. If you get what I’m saying.

 

Saffron’s recommendations this month:

Music:   Snow Patrol – Northern Irish / Scottish rock band – indie / brit pop, early 90’s to now.  Here’s some of their best stuff – you’ll know a lot of this I’m quite sure.

Chasing Cars 

Run

Set the Fire to the Third Bar – ft Martha Wainwright  (oh yeah, what a song)

You’re all I have

Open your eyes

You could be happy

 

Reading:  ‘The Testament of Gideon Mack’ – by James Robertson, published by Penguin.    An utterly mesmerising exploration of the very nature of belief – intelligent and compelling, a superb piece of Scottish gothic.  What’s not to like. You will like it, of course.

 

 

Film:  Monty Python’s Life of Brian.  A 1969 (whaaaat!) film about a boy who was born next door to the  Messiah and is mistaken for him.  Eventually funded by George Harrison after EMI backed out (scared??) the film was horribly controversial and banned by 39 local authorities across the UK.  Intended as satire on religious dogmatism (in all its forms) the film wasn’t ever designed to be anti Christian as such but nonetheless that’s where the critics went.   If you haven’t watched it then you should.  It’s really funny.  Religion and humour surely shouldn’t be incompatible?