Repeats on telly have Triggered a happy response
MAURICE Chevalier sang Thank Heaven for Little Girls. But this week I’ve changed the words to thank heaven for John Logie Baird.
If he hadn’t invented the television I don’t know how I’d have got through the past week.
I’m watching repeats and enjoying them, in the same comforting way I love hearing friends or family retell their favourite stories or jokes.
Only Fools and Horses never fails to get me giggling.
As soon as Trigger appears, and before he even says a word, I’m off. He doesn’t have many lines but when he comes out with one, like Gandhi only having 15 minutes of fame – because “he made one great film and we never saw him again” – I cry with laughter and forget that I was ever down.
Some people have stopped watching the news because they don’t like hearing all the doom and gloom.
But I like to know what’s going on. And on the Zoom interviews with experts, I enjoy seeing all the clever people’s big bookcases – the only literature on my shelf is the TV magazine.
This week I heard about a woman who worked in a supermarket and approached a customer who wasn’t wearing a face mask. The customer argued, then coughed in her face. That is disgusting. If they’d done it to me, I’d have taken my walking stick and rapped their legs from under them.
It can seem like we’re yet to see the light at the end of the Covid tunnel. But it’s good to remind ourselves that the vaccine means lockdown will come to an end.
We’re halfway through January already. The afternoons are getting lighter. And soon the snowdrops will be out to add extra beauty to the little bits of landscape we can safely see from our windows.