Smart Boy is Smart

[desperance]

Where bread and mustard come together, can sossidge be far behind...?

Barry knows this, I swear. He's not much interested in bread qua bread, and mustard holds no lure; but whenever I bring bread and mustard together, sandwich-wise, he's just there. On the instant. With his sossidge face on.

In other news - nah. There is no other news. Except that the BBC has just broadcast a programme I rather wanted to see, two sneaky hours before the Radio Times (which is the scheduling-voice of the BBC, for those who do not know this) said they would. Snarl. It was meant to fill a neat hour before I have to go up the road to my dinner (life with a bad hand is ongoingly interesting, but cooking? Not so much fun, actually. Trying to use a knife puts all the wrong pressure in all the wrong places. An invitation to dinner out is priceless). Now I dunno what to do. Incompetence makes filling time so hard...

Comments

[stephanieburgis.livejournal.com]

Is the programme up on the iPlayer yet? That's where we watch all our TV - I think they're usually up within an hour of broadcasting, so you might be in luck!

Good luck with dinner...

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Alas, is no good to me: I have no sound on this computer... (Well, that's not exactly true, but I'd have to go into yuck-spit Windows to find it; I am insufficiently geeky to make onboard sound work in Linux. And yet, too geeky to give up and be a MicroSerf again. Therefore, I live without sound...)

[pennski.livejournal.com]

I admire your nobility of spirit.

I missed BBC4's series on children's books that I really wanted to sky+. Even with all the technology in the world, we are sometimes made of fail.

Saw some lolcats earlier and thought of you.

[anef.livejournal.com]

Was this the Jo Brand thing? I wanted to watch it and instead there was News and suchlike. And now Little Dorrit. B*stards! But now I will try i-player.

On the rest of your email, yes, the scent of boiling pasta plus that of sweetcorn inevitably indicate a tin of salmon. From which one has to make a libation to the household gods, or goddess, in my case. Libation, of course is the wrong word, as it means pouring. I suppose a better word would be sacrifice, but that seems a bit too big and dramatic. Goes away to think.

[badbookworm.livejournal.com]

Tithe? Or is that over-optimistic in terms of you:cat ratio?

[anef.livejournal.com]

Tithe is about right, actually. And she demands it as of right, so that would work.

[badbookworm.livejournal.com]

I thought about "offering", but that suggests that you're the instigator and...well, I have a cat too.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yup, it was exactly that: Jo Brand on Vera Brittain. I'm glad (sort of?) that I'm not the only one who got caught. Sorry that others missed out too, that is, but glad not to have been the only idiot. If you see what I mean.

[badbookworm.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Fill time by being an amateur vet. I need kitty advice over on my LJ.

[jeremy-m.livejournal.com]

They can certainly learn associations, at least in critical areas such as food. When I was an impoverished vegetarian student I used to get bags of chips wrapped in newspaper and smelling of vinegar, which my cat Sappho would always fight me for, despite not liking chips, vinegar nor newspaper.

The trick seems to be that she was second-hand and her previous pet humans had had fish with their chips, so she couldn't quite believe my claims that fish was off.

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

We know one of our cats has been off begging food elsewhere, because how else did she learn that tasty things come in tins - a sudden fascination with the electric can-opener, when her food comes out of a rattly dry food bucket. One of our neighbours has equally naff gadgets *and* feeds small black cats... :)

It is being repeated

[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

According to the programme's page on the BBC web site, it is being repeated at 01:20 on 17th November, so all is not lost.

There is a gotcha here of course, in that this is what most people will think of as rather late on the 16th November.

The same page also says that it is not available via the BBC iPlayer.

[samarcand.livejournal.com]

Seeing as it's on ridiculously late, would you like me to record it and throw it on a DVD for you?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Nah, it's okay, thanks. I haz a video.

[samarcand.livejournal.com]

Video? I remember those. Big black things with that tapey-stuff inside...

[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

The Corrections page of today's Guardian says that it will also be repeated on BBC2 on December 4 at 7pm.