Playing Hooky
Jan. 6th, 2005 02:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smofbabeWhat can I say: sloth begets sloth. Thanks to still more miserable weather, I stayed home again yesterday, switching channels between the last day of the Australia/Pakistan cricket match and the Orange Bowl, which instead of being a tightly played college football national championship game turned into a rout (sorry about that, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
marykaykare). Hard to feel too guilty given that my only pending work right now is maintaining a couple of intranet web sites.
Last night we took a break from eating out and I got to indulge myself in one of my favorite pursuits here: watching
The first was "No Going Back," a show that tracks British families who have decided to give up their cushy lives for a self-sufficient simpler life. In this case, a builder, his teacher wife, and their two kids move to Tuscany to convert a decrepit 200-year-old farmhouse into luxury tourist accommodations. Despite being fairly practical (evidently previous shows have featured advertising execs who decide to be farmers), there were still some boneheaded acts (let's check with an architect and find out that it's a listed protected property after we move).
The other show was "The Million Pound Property Experiment" in which two gay Scots interior designers, who are also a couple, are given £100,000 of the BBC's money to make £1 million from the property market in six moves. Their practical project manager quits halfway through and they insist that "even poor people deserve good design," choosing fancy touches over things like (I swear) including closets and showers and putting an open stove in a center kitchen island. Hard to convey the true amusement value in this one.
Today Stephen hit the big 4-0, which is one of the reasons I was so anxious to get here. No big celebration, just dinner with a couple of friends and his sister and nephew, who live in Melbourne. Unfortunately, I'm not in a position to join in the "over the hill" raillery likely to occur :->
marykaykare). Hard to feel too guilty given that my only pending work right now is maintaining a couple of intranet web sites.Last night we took a break from eating out and I got to indulge myself in one of my favorite pursuits here: watching
The first was "No Going Back," a show that tracks British families who have decided to give up their cushy lives for a self-sufficient simpler life. In this case, a builder, his teacher wife, and their two kids move to Tuscany to convert a decrepit 200-year-old farmhouse into luxury tourist accommodations. Despite being fairly practical (evidently previous shows have featured advertising execs who decide to be farmers), there were still some boneheaded acts (let's check with an architect and find out that it's a listed protected property after we move).
The other show was "The Million Pound Property Experiment" in which two gay Scots interior designers, who are also a couple, are given £100,000 of the BBC's money to make £1 million from the property market in six moves. Their practical project manager quits halfway through and they insist that "even poor people deserve good design," choosing fancy touches over things like (I swear) including closets and showers and putting an open stove in a center kitchen island. Hard to convey the true amusement value in this one.
Today Stephen hit the big 4-0, which is one of the reasons I was so anxious to get here. No big celebration, just dinner with a couple of friends and his sister and nephew, who live in Melbourne. Unfortunately, I'm not in a position to join in the "over the hill" raillery likely to occur :->
