Our evenings are now nearly always spent watching the television but it is getting harder to find something that my wife can enjoy. Dramas and thrillers she tends to take seriously as if they are factual. She likes quizzes and still correctly answers a surprising number of sometimes obscure questions. Stories strung out over several episodes are confusing because she can't remember that she saw the previous episode, never mind what happened in the plot. She has no interest in soaps or reality TV. Programmes on commercial channels are a problem due to the ad breaks and are best recorded so that the breaks can be skipped through. Comedies (Dad's Army and Frasier for example) and some documentaries are better.
She used to like some of the property finding programmes such as A Place in the Sun. But last night we had to stop watching Location, Location, Location because she said that she did not like the area (Bromley), was happy living in our house and did not see why we should have to move. Somehow the fact that other couples were looking for new places to live had got confused in her mind so that she thought it was us who had to move and this caused distress.
In the end it was up to Victor Meldrew to save the day, even if we have seen all of the episodes many times over and have the complete box set. Even then she could not sit still long enough to watch the whole programme.
She used to like some of the property finding programmes such as A Place in the Sun. But last night we had to stop watching Location, Location, Location because she said that she did not like the area (Bromley), was happy living in our house and did not see why we should have to move. Somehow the fact that other couples were looking for new places to live had got confused in her mind so that she thought it was us who had to move and this caused distress.
In the end it was up to Victor Meldrew to save the day, even if we have seen all of the episodes many times over and have the complete box set. Even then she could not sit still long enough to watch the whole programme.
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