http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO72KBtUmHk If you are feeling blue, are fed up with depressing news and the world around you – watch Little House on the Prairie. It will cheer you up, make you think and give you back the belief in the good that exists in the world. Though a lot of drama happens to the Ingalls [...]
Feb
24
Bobby loves television
Our cat is full of surprises and the latest is that after 4 years with us she finally has discovered the joys of watching television. Usually she doesn’t care much about it when it’s on and often just snoozes, but for a couple of days now she is transfixed by it. She responds to [...]
Aug
06
Germany has changed a lot
In my week in Cologne I visited my aunt and met an old friend of mine I haven’t seen since 1996, which was great, cause apart from the fact that he is now a happily married man with two lovely daughters, he hasn’t changed that much. It was a nice evening and it occurred to [...]
Jun
03
Disturbing documentary of the week
Yesterday I caught “My Monkey Baby” on Channel 4. The programme followed three American couples who bought a monkey as a “Baby” substitute. One couple was young and the man didn’t want a human baby, the second couple was retired and the woman suffered from empty-nest syndrome, in the case of the final couple (not [...]
Apr
12
Good News Channel
The other week I watched Charlie Brooker’s excellent “Newswipe” (BBC4, Wednesdays) about news anchors. It featured a short film by Adam Curtis (who directed the brilliant “The Power of Nightmares”) about the rise of “oh-dearism”, a tool for news, which drives audiences to apathy and helplessness. This got me thinking – every day we are [...]
Apr
07
“Sculptures of nothing in houses of sand!” Stewart Lee
The best thing on telly at the moment is Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle ( BBC2 on Mondays at 10 pm). If you haven’t seen it by now – watch it. I haven’t heard of him before until I watched the first episode about books where he had a go at Chris Moyles and Dan Brown. [...]
Feb
17
Rick Stein
I am not really into the whole celebrity chef thing. I find it amusing that on the one hand we are constantly reminded of the obesity crisis and that we shouldn’t eat this, drink that and do lots of exercise and at the same time we are inundated with cooking show. Most dishes celeb chefs [...]
Feb
13
I love Skins
I never thought I would like a show about modern teenagers and what they are up to. Skins was advertised as daring, with a lot of sex thrown into the mix. Some critics dismissed it as unrealistic and some people didn’t like the look of it but never watched it. When I saw the [...]
Helen's Paws for Thought
- Bobby in a box September 6, 2010Our cat is incredibly nosey and likes small boxes – she even sleeps in them. I thought I share a few photos of her which we took a couple of weeks ago. […]helen
- New layout for my blog September 6, 2010I decided it’s time to change the blog’s theme and layout and I hope you like it. I always wanted to incorporate Bobby’s paw into my blog’s header and thanks to this new theme I found I was able to. I am still working on my new website -hence the lack of blog entries lately. […]helen
- Ukuleles August 2, 2010I am not normally a trendy person, but in March I ordered an Ohana Ukulele from Music Is Life http://www.musicislife.co.uk/ (also called the Southern Ukulele Store on Ebay) which finally arrived a few weeks ago. Ukuleles are very popular at the moment – even the Guardian has dedicated an article to a Ukulele teacher in […]helen