Reality TV

Now, as you probably know, the best thing about being ill is having a licence to sit around wrapped in a duvet watching daytime TV instead of working. Well, this goes for the home-worker, too, particularly if, like me, you are someone naturally given to work-avoidance tactics.
So that’s what I’ve been doing the past couple of days. And what I found out was that this is not nearly so much of a waste of time as it’s often thought to be!
Yes, that's right. I can now exclusively reveal that daytime TV is not brain-melting chod, in fact it's remarkably educational. Let's take a look at just 10 of the many things I’ve learned from daytime TV in just the past 24 hours!

1) Tarantula legs taste like prawns.
2) A paranormal investigator’s equipment always includes a thermometer.
3) If you spray glue onto roses and dip them in glitter, you can make a lovely sparkly display for your Christmas table.
4) Whether boiled, scrambled or fried, eggs in the morning can be bliss if they’re served with a kiss.
5) When Prince Charles informed Diana of the death of the bodyguard with whom she’d been having an affair, he did it in a rather brusque tone of voice.
6) Pork from a female pig, or sow, is more tender and tasty than that from the male.
7) Dogs aren‘t just a fashion accessory, even small ones like those owned by Paris Hilton or Britney Spears take quite a lot of looking after and are likely to do "mini-poos" on your carpet.
8) If you are a woman of colour hoping to be successful in Hollywood, you can’t just wait for the roles to come to you, you have to get out there and make it happen.
9) It’s best to focus on the things you have in common with your work colleagues than your differences.
10) The (Irish) singer from the Corrs did not have any trouble doing a regional Irish accent for her latest film role, although she did take quite a bit of time to study it.

Have you learned anything useful from daytime TV recently? If you have, I‘d love to hear about it! You can call, text, or email, or evenmake a comment by following the link below. How easy is that?
Wow, that's so simple. Anyone could do it, really. Now, coming up later in this blog, we’ll be looking at my efforts to avoid doing any work and asking: how the hell am I going to afford to pay the rent in January? But first, it’s downstairs to the living room to find out what’s happening on today’s episode of Scrubs.