ABC easy as 123

I spent the whole day on the sofa – I mean it… I got up long enough to get some takeaway food from the local thai… and to hang out the washing. A whole weekend where idleness and sleep was the order of the day. Sorry to be blogging about such tedious behaviour, I swear there really is nothing else going on…

Actually, more precisely I spent the day watching the ABC (Public Television like the BBC or PBS).

It was largely because the other 4 channels were dominated by sport and as I consider cricket and golf 2 of the most tedious spectator sports I felt it to be the best of a bad lot… It was brilliant actually…

I watched Songs of Praise and was blessed by wonderful old songs and carols from Godmanchester, and then from Wells cathedral…

Then I increased my knowledge of the goings on of rural Australia by watching Landline… Got inspired and amused by Gardening Australia, the presenter is a trip… Then Message Stick where I learned how to cook with indigenous foods, watched the Young (classical) performers awards and then went to the opera to see the tragic story ‘The Stepdaughter’… By that time I was ready for some fun and hauled out Singing in the Rain from my small video collection.

It is such a good thing to have public television, not the least because it has no advertising but above all because it provides quality programming that broadens one’s horizons rather than narrows them. I hope public opinion continues to stand behind the ABC and continues to encourage government to support it with cash. Though I am the first to admit I don’t often choose to go to it first. Yet I am always glad when I do…

If I hadn’t been watching today I would never have realised that I get to watch a series about King Henry the 8th and his wives over the next couple of weeks… An admirable substitue for CSI don’t you think???