... of Glastonbury and Wimbledon are doing there sterling work on the weather here in the suburbs of East London, and it is raining almost constantly.

Not the best weather for the weekend but so what.

I have an empty house and a rock radio station and a guitar and the internet.

Sorted!

Saw a programme during the week where families had there tvs' taken away for a month, to see if the kids would change there behaviour and if the families would become closer. Don't know about the outcome as I only saw bits of it as I wandered in and out. Jo and Sarah watched it.

"Do you not think it's strange you two sitting on the sofa glued to a programme about stopping people being glued to the tv?" I asked as I went by.

"eh?" said the vegetables on the sofa.

Oh well.

But is telly that bad? Most of it is absolute rubbish but I have learnt quite a bit from tv. I watch a lot of wildlife docs and science programmes. History docs and stuff always seem to pull me in. Except for recent months as I watch tv a bit less.

But I almost got my head round string theory once thanks to tv. OK, half an hour after watching the programme it was out of my head, but it was a good programme. I have found out about the weather on other planets in the solars system, found out how people in south america like to cook at the weekends, That the bloke with the arrow in his eye in that tapestry thing is probably not King Harold, that the first powered flight was probably not made by ther wright brothers, listened to a lot of scientists tell me that all of this could just be a very advanced computer simulation and not real at all (no I was NOT watching the matrix by mistake)

Loads of stuff.

So depending what you watch, its not all bad.