London has just experienced its coldest day in a decade and all the plants in our garden have drooped. so much for hardy perennials!
i am currently sitting in the freezing cold kitchen with a glass of mead. I know! Mead. I've tried it before and quite liked it but the glass i am drinking actually tastes pretty rank - imaginge washing a Locket down with some washing up water. And I've got a whole bottle of it, which i think even i will have to pour down the sink.
regular readers will know how much that will hurt.
i am, as i sip, watching a new TV show which may knock YBF from my FTVS (that's You've Been Framed from my Favourite TV Spot). the show in question actually isn't actually a million miles away from my beloved YBF, as it offers participants plenty of opporunities for injuring themselves. it's a bit like Extreme It's a Knockout. 'Players' have to run round an assault course (weird compound noun, if you think about it) which has things like 'the balls', which is a roll of huge red balls on columns that contestants have to leap across. There are five of them. So far, no one has made it beyond the second one. Another challenge involves crossing a wall, which they have to kind of straddle and inch their way across. Did i mention that the wall has holes in it and fists coming through throwing punches?
My favourite round so far, though, has been the one where the players are whizzed round on roundabout before being bunged off to do another series of trials.
It's hilarious. Fortunately (for them) the contestants are well wrapped up in padded vests and helmets and all of the equipment is wrapped in padding. but i'm sure somewhere there's an extreme version using the same course but without the padding. but that's probably pay per view.