: To-day I...
* Watched old MILLIONAIRE, including Kate Heusser's run. Lawks, that might just be more entertaining than most of the jackpot winners. Question 14 was memorable for so many reasons - Tarrant claiming ATA had never been used at that point before (it had, on the very first Q14 to boot), then Kate trusting them...
Must admit I loved Kate's response to Question 15, one I actually vaguely recall seeing the first time, and which stood out as perhaps the best quote by a contestant on an ITV game show until the 'bollocks' exclamation six years later: 'I'm delighted to say I haven't got a clue'. So were ITV, for having that moment to spoil the fourth-from-last ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE would be no match for spoiling the very last one. (Was Keppel v Meldrew the last time two channels got an eight-figure audience at the same time?)
* Had acute self-esteem crisis number You Name It. This one's over being a bit crap at helping Quirks-brother put his Argos flat-pack bed-n-storage unit together, and gaining no sympathy for it. Nor, for that matter, wanting any. 20 days until I'm out of here, then...
* Improvised on Alice, and produced a melody that might be worth building upon.
Oh, Saturday: I was due to withdraw £150 to pay for living costs this summer. In a fit of rage caused from briefly losing, then finding, my wallet, I withdrew £250, and told Mum she could keep the excess. She refused, and I threatened to gamble it all away on Israel to beat England Reserves that afternoon. I didn't, and later joked that my threat was probably more effective than McClaren.
(Lawks, Israel were available at 13.00 with one bookmaker... lawks, Russia are 8.00 for the next match! Don't tempt me...)
£7 did go though, for I ended up acquring the Amy MacDonald album. There are several very good songs on there, but I believe I could have acquired at least as many good songs in £7 of charity-shop raids.
* Watched old MILLIONAIRE, including Kate Heusser's run. Lawks, that might just be more entertaining than most of the jackpot winners. Question 14 was memorable for so many reasons - Tarrant claiming ATA had never been used at that point before (it had, on the very first Q14 to boot), then Kate trusting them...
Must admit I loved Kate's response to Question 15, one I actually vaguely recall seeing the first time, and which stood out as perhaps the best quote by a contestant on an ITV game show until the 'bollocks' exclamation six years later: 'I'm delighted to say I haven't got a clue'. So were ITV, for having that moment to spoil the fourth-from-last ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE would be no match for spoiling the very last one. (Was Keppel v Meldrew the last time two channels got an eight-figure audience at the same time?)
* Had acute self-esteem crisis number You Name It. This one's over being a bit crap at helping Quirks-brother put his Argos flat-pack bed-n-storage unit together, and gaining no sympathy for it. Nor, for that matter, wanting any. 20 days until I'm out of here, then...
* Improvised on Alice, and produced a melody that might be worth building upon.
Oh, Saturday: I was due to withdraw £150 to pay for living costs this summer. In a fit of rage caused from briefly losing, then finding, my wallet, I withdrew £250, and told Mum she could keep the excess. She refused, and I threatened to gamble it all away on Israel to beat England Reserves that afternoon. I didn't, and later joked that my threat was probably more effective than McClaren.
(Lawks, Israel were available at 13.00 with one bookmaker... lawks, Russia are 8.00 for the next match! Don't tempt me...)
£7 did go though, for I ended up acquring the Amy MacDonald album. There are several very good songs on there, but I believe I could have acquired at least as many good songs in £7 of charity-shop raids.
Music: Amy MacDonald - Let's Start A Band