God I'm such a townie...

But, seriously, there is something quite soothing and grounding about the fact that it's gone midnight here and I can still hear the combine harvester going at it somewhere further up the valley. I like that the basics of farming, to me at least, seem to have remained the same despite all this new stuff. You plant some seeds, and if they all survive rain/frost/drought/etc then come the harvest and you will be working round the clock to get it all in before the rains return and ruin the whole lot.

Plus it's nice not being the only one up at this hour, normally by now it's just me, the turtles and the local pair of tawny owls :)

The good mood might also have been helped by catching up with the latest Gladiators and, win or lose, you put Spartan on Hang Tough and Pyramid then you can be sure of quality entertainment :)

Bonelickers finale

You know, that was actually incredibly good, completely bonkers, fun. If they had just done a one-off 'drama' comprising of this finale plus a few odds and ends thrown in from the previous eps, they'd have done okay. As a one-off, the Bonelickers concept works.

God that was hysterically funny and utterly shite in way only true crack can be.

That said, yes, there was an issue raised at the end of the last ep that I am, boringly, unable to take too lightly. And actually they did alright on that front, they even made me briefly take the side of their main female lead. ( Cut for SPOILERS, in the unlikely event that anyone actually cares about this... )

My argument for Dolly being in fact a mortal Captain Jack has not yet been disproved. The cracked AU in my brain is a lovely place, believe you me :) I cannot begin to go into the insane brilliance of these uber!villains who pop up out of nowhere and vanish in the same way, yet again the utter destruction of centuries worth of mythology, the 'lady of the lake' shot, that poor bloke from Hotel Babylon who is yet another example of some poor brilliant actor who was duped into appearing in this circus, seeing everyone trying so hard to make their utterly unbelievable speeches at least sound vaguely profound, and, oh I can't go on.

Though, yes I can. Untold slashy love in the flashbacks. With bad wigs. Plus Magwilde's boss finally getting to shine *pets him*

Cracktastic. But, please Mr BBC, do not bring this back again.