TV Misery!

Daytime tv is like a box of chocolates from Poundland; it's bright and loud but has nothing nice to offer!

Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time at home I don't watch much tv during the day. I usually listen to the radio or my own stuff on the computer. When I have my lunch, however, I want to entertain my eyes and my brain for a few minutes and invariably I make the same mistake: I turn the tv on.
Is it too much to ask for something not relating to property searching (like all of us have loads of cash to flaunt on a house in Dorset), something that won't involve charvers screaming at eachother in an attempt to figure out who fathered Donna's fifth kid, or something so old that even the great grandkids of the protagonists have long disappeared from this planet.

I just long for a program that will teach me something I can actually use in my daily existence. Or maybe just a tv series other than Friends and Gilmore Girls? I am sure that most of the retired people from this country who sit home all day do not really want to see Ross and Rachel reunited but wouldn't say no to a bit of Dallas or Dynasty. Dallas would definitely lighten up my lunch! Another cocktail to go with that Brandy Sue Helen?

I could write for hours about how I find modern tv frustrating, how it is pratonising and take people for utter idiots who have to be repeated the same fact five times in the course of a one-hour program. I could go on and describe how I hate weight-loss programs, singing contests and other mediocre mind-numbing distractions that try to keep us on our sofa every night. I could keep writing about this sore subject but will stop here because I am baking and the dough is ready to be worked!

By the way, last night's roasted fruit was delightful but I thought my meringues were a bit dense.

I added just over 100g of caster sugar, a dash of OJ and some vanilla extract to the fruit before roasting the lot for half an hour.
For the meringues I used 2 big egg whites and 160g of sugar, half caster and half icing.

Either the meringues will be used for an impromptu Eton Mess in the next few days or the birds of Gateshead will get a sweet change from the crackers I've been feeding them recently!