My flat basically doesn’t have central heating. But it’s OK! It tends to be quite warm all year around anyway. But when it does get cold I turn on the big storage heater in the living warm, but there is one small side effect – the warmth tends to send me off to sleep. I lost a good deal of Sunday afternoon due to this.
So last night was pretty nippy, and I’d had a nice meal and was settling down to watch Look Around You. I’d got most of the way through it, I think, when I drifted off. Next thing I know, I wake up, and I’m learning business French on the Learning Zone! I must have slept right through the Masters Snooker where the BBC were pesisting in calling Jimmy White “Jimmy White” and not “James Brown” as he wanted due to a sponsorship stunt with HP Sauce.
Did you know that when you conclude a deal in France, it’s ordinarily celebrated with champagne? Well I know I didn’t, although I’m not sure that every deal is conlcuded in such a manner. I mean, if I order a box of pencils from my stationery company, that’s a deal isn’t it? But hardly worth a bottle of anyone’s champagne surely?
In utterly unrelated news, I was watching the latest episode of Lost at the weekend and in one of the flashback segments someone Charlie’s trying to rip off speaks about her dad being out “buying a paper company up in Slough”. A not-really-that-subtle allusion to The Office by J.J. Abrams, one Lost’s producers, who had Ricky Gervais guest star in his other show, Alias, last season.