Daytime TV

Two days after my trip to A&E and I can finally walk again - albeit with a walking stick borrowed from Nick and only for short distances. Still, it's a great improvement, a sign that I'm not going to be consigned to the sofa forever and freedom from said sofa. Sunday and Monday I was pretty much stuck there, apart from when I had to feed the cats or go to the bathroom, and apart from the Chromebook the only things I had to entertain myself with were my crochet and daytime TV.

Crochetwise, I made five more hexapuffs for the ongoing Beekeeper's Quilt project I'm working on, and made plans for some more things I'm going to be working on when I can. The rest of the time, I was reminded why I don't watch very much TV any more normally.

I think we have over 100 channels on our cable package, and yet I think I only watch about 5 of them. Two crime channels - Investigation Discovery and the Crime and Investigation channel - Challenge TV (home of old gameshows, strange foreign gameshows and TNA wrestling), Living TV (mainly for the episodes of Jerry Springer and Maury), CBS Reality (for Judge Judy and Jerry Springer) and the Horror Channel (for, obviously, horror movies). Oh, and ITV2, home of the Jeremy Kyle show.

Nick believes that Jeremy Kyle is Satan, or at least some sort of demon sent from the pit. He doesn't like Kyle's moralizing, his regular anti-benefits rants (maybe about once in a blue moon can we actually agree on what he says, like earlier today when he went off on someone who tried to argue that he didn't need to provide for his children because their mother was on benefits), the guests on his show... Basically, he doesn't like the show. And if I'm completely honest, I'm not too sure why I watch it so regularly, except for the entertainment factor. A judge once described it as "human bear-baiting" but I'd disagree with that, because with bear-baiting the bears are forced into performing and don't know what's going on, while the guests on the show are (theoretically) fully aware of what they're getting into and have volunteered to come on the show. Plus bear-baiting is cruel.

But I think I'm temporarily full up on Jeremy Kyle, after two days' worth of him and Maury Povich keeping the DNA testing agencies in business. Instead today I'm going to use my new-found freedom to watch Law and Order: SVU on the computer and work on the lap-blanket.