Although not lying on the floor tonight I am hunched over a chair which is, for blogging purposes, a table in order to type this. I needn’t go into the details. We all know why it is.

I was going to call in the resident computer expert David (pronounced Davide – as in Ginola) from Homecall PC down the road who is really very good at fixing broken computers but I’ve been busy with paperwork all day and he is a bit of a raconteur to say the least with Sci Fi his speciality subject. He’s been round to our house twice on various rescue missions and, being an Anglophile, or an Anglotvophile, at the very least, feels liberated to effuse about the likes of Dr Who and discuss the relative merits of the various sidekicks. He’s not taken with Katherine Tate that much is clear – except for the bit when she and the doctor espied one another through the windows …which was hysterical apparently. Then again Benny Hill was still very much in vogue when we came over and Mr Bean still is.

We did have French tv for the first couple of years of being over here but really there’s only so much Fa si la chanter a person/persons can take…. think ‘Name that tune’. One of the nightly shows which we were forced into watching for want of anything else was ‘Millioinaire’ where scratch card winners are invited onto a show with a wheel of fortune. I think you can guess the rest. Maybe it’s changed nowadays but then the contestants had to do a turn before spinning their way to a million which often involved a song occasionally dancing and once, memorably, an old man who brought on a knife and piece of wood and whittled for 2 minutes.

We now have English tv.

I don’t know where he gets it from but so does David and as I can’t imagine where else he gets to talk to people about such things around these parts I’ve found myself pretending to get his Red Dwarf references despite having never watched it in my life as I can’t bear to let him down. When he starts on Hitch Hiker’s guide I can feel myself going numb. I only made it to page 2 of the box set. In short if any Sci Fi freaks are free tomorrow daytime do pop round for a cup of tea….and a chat…….!