So, one of our old leaders died yesterday with the traditional reminisces, talk of legacies, fond and bitter memories etc. For me, she seemed largely to do the right thing at the right time, but I couldn't help but think she just sometimes went a bit too far. ..but was that just because I'm conservative with a 'small c' (as some say)? Do I ever go that bit further to stand out from the crowd? No, I don't, preferring to play it safe, sit on the fence, and all those other cliches. Talking of cliches, there was a good cliche joke in Coronation Street last night - made me laugh which was a very unfamiliar sound at that time of the evening.
..and talking of unfamiliar sounds, I happened to be watching Daybreak (is it still called that?) this morning, but only because my lovely wife had come down early for once and switched it on. I'm strictly a BBC man if I put the TV on, so it did appear foreign to me. Anyway, there was the obligatory sports report on and showed a clip of last night's footy - Man U v. Man City I think. Nothing remarkable in that I know, but what captured my attention was there was some background music on playing just below the sports reporter's voice. It sounded really odd and distracted me completely from the reporter speaking. I know they run the show on a shoestring (actually, I don't know that, I just assume that - given the adverts, cheap sets and general naffness of the show), so maybe they have to buy the footage in and are not allowed to edit the sound out. Maybe it was shot on a camcorder like the wobbly clip of women's footy they showed at the weekend. Unfortunately, given the top quality footage we get from the 'top' sports shows, anything inferior looks way too poor to be shown. It's a relative think isn't it?
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