It’s been hot, hot, hot all week.  The gentle breezes of today are very welcome.  I’ve been trying to avoid the peak of the rush hour for the last week and, if I’ve not been able to, to get on a slow train which are normally a little cooler. So I’ve not been too much like this:

Poor Phoebe has taken to lying under the bed.  It’s not easy when you wear a fur coat that you can’t take off.   She’s a lot more herself today, and has been purring around the house like normal.

Is it just me who is getting insanely excited at the idea of this?

moar funny pictures

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Random TV jottings, in no particular order:

• Why show The Wire with an episode every day? It’s far too hard to keep up with so many episodes at once.  Especially as the V+ box only takes 80 hours and we do want to record some other stuff too!
• Damages series 2.  I’ve stopped watching.  The first series was pacy, and the use of flashbacks/flashforwards really kept me guessing along the way.  By contrast, the second series seems to plod a lot more and doesn’t work anywhere near so well.
• Desperate Housewives.  Still fluff.  Still enjoyable. Even if I can do something else at the same time.
• The Apprentice.  No, I don’t like any of the candidates.  Yes, we are still gripped.  And it’s even better with the live blog from the Grauniad.  And with this too:

• Law & Order: UK? OK.  But the quality let it down – “He’s been granted a bail?”  What – a crook goes to court to argue that he has been unlawfully deprived of a piece of cricketing apparatus?
• Henry VIII: Mind of a Tyrant.  David Starkey.  Will no doubt be a bit provocative, but always interesting.
• Lewis: Not quite as good as Morse.  But Hathaway and Innocent are growing into being good characters. Now if only Lewis and Hobson could get it together…
• Genius. A work of genius! Titter along with this: