Sushi For Breakfast

No really, I am - which is why this is the first post of 2019 even though it's March. Am in the depths of assignments for my course at work, this is number five of six, and I really hope I've passed number four, because I don't want to go back and think about finance again if I don't need to.

I am also three-quarters finished with my current cross-stitch. It's a large kit, and I'm ready to have it finished now so that I can get on to the next project, which is from a magazine and has fancy typefaces and beach huts. I've also rediscovered eBay, and today the second batch of old cross-stitch magazines I've bought on eBay arrived. I've also bought a couple of current magazines recently, including one today.

I have also been spending money on other things today - got my Comic Relief T-shirts today. This year it's Mickey and Minnie Mouse, and as they'd got both designs in my size I bought one of each. I've bought two Comic Relief T-shirts in the same year before - I think the first time they did more than one design, which was just a white one and a red one with the same basic design. I think there's only been two times when I've not got the T-shirt - the first year (1988), and then I think in either 1995 or 1997 when they sold them at one particular petrol station which was the other side of the city and they sold out really quickly. Now they have them at TK Maxx so that's not too bad. It's still Sainsburys for other Red Nose Day goodies, like the noses and pins and wristbands. And the show (Friday next week) looks good, there's this which I'm really looking forward to:

For the first time ever, I didn't watch any of the Red Nose Day TV show on my television. After last time, where I had to sit through several hours of people I had either never heard of or thought had been banished for mediocrity in order to see ten minutes of proper stuff, I decided I wasn't fussed about watching. I did buy the T-shirt, the nose, the pin badge, and the George Michael single (and a pack of Stephen Fry Up crisps which probably taste nicer if you are hungry).

I do, however, have some 24 Hour Panel People to sit down and watch - this is David Walliams taking part in TV panel shows past and present for 24 hours in a row, I have QI, Give Us A Clue, Whose Line Is It Anyway? and Call My Bluff to watch. Also, there was the now-obligatory Doctor Who special short:

( Under the cut, in two parts )

Also I heard John Prescott's reading of the Shipping Forecast which was so much yayness :D And apparently £74 million has been raised so far, which is super duper yayness. If anyone else knows of other Red Nose Day show YouTubery I should look out for, please let me know. I must admit to feeling so lame about not watching the show, like all those prissy schoolteachers who never watched and who thought Comic Relief Red Noses were so beneath them. I was hoping to be tuning in late on, ie after all danger of Davina MacCall had passed, I was going to watch 24 Hour Panel People highlights scheduled for midnight but someone tweeted to say there was an extended news bulletin so everything was being rearranged. Instead, I was listening to The Fry Chronicles, covering his university years, and all the now-world-famous actors he encountered, including a tall chap with blue eyes and blushing-red cheeks who said "Hullo", while tootling around Google Earth.

If you enjoyed the Doctor Who ep and want to see more of Matt Smith, you can see a whole lot more of him tonight at 9.30pm on BBC2 in a 90-minute TV film Christopher And His Kind, where he is "louche, saucy and naked" according to the Radio Times in the title role of Christopher Isherwood. Should be good. I was always sad I never got to see Alan Cumming's Cabaret, I feel like Isherwood is one of those writers I will be forever trying to catch up on.