Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

....I've got a spikey, SPIKEY bat I'd like you to meet....

So Spooks returns to our screens next week (Monday, 9pm, BBC1) and normally that would be cause for much YAY from me. BUT....it looks like Hermione Norris isn't going to be back as Roz Myers AND that they're bringing back a character I detest instead. *muttergrumblebah* I am hoping this is all a ruse and Hermione not being listed in the credits is just a tease.....we did leave things on a cliffhanger at the end of last season. I'm warning you BBC! You kill off Hermione and I'll break out the spikey SPIKEY bat!!

Just watched the second episode of Leverage and it was good. Not brilliant, it was a set up episode and it was pretty sappy at the end but I have faith they'll take it in the right direction. The main point though is the whole thing is just so much fun and there's so much snark, I'm loving it :)

Ahh feel good television, how I've missed ye.

In other news, 803am has nearly finished my fic and has kindly agreed NOT to make me wait until Christmas. Possibly because she couldn't face another 2 weeks of me whining asking nicely about it :D

Talking of TV, I completely forgot to watch Spooks on Monday night *shakes head* That's cos I had a week's break and just forgot it was on. And it was the last ep of the series too, so doubtless they'll have killed off half the remaining cast. Time to go and beat up the BBC website and get it downloaded, methinks!

Dammit! Stop killing people off, you swine! It's bad enough you do evil cliff hangers!!

Although I thoroughly approve of the replacement. Richard Armitage! Yum!! (Guy of Gisbourne in the other wise 'orrible recent version of Robin Hood).

The first half of the day wasn't too hot. First of all, I managed to get no sleep - my fault entirely, for drinking tea at the wrong time. Eh. Woke up and then did the usual morning routine. Decided that I needed to call the stoma nurses and did so (more details in the medical filter entry I'll get around to in a minute). Alison rang back within five minutes and on hearing my concern, suggested I popped in today to see her on the ward. So I leapt into some clothes and drove down to the QEII.

I've now found a great source of free parking near the hospital, so at least if I ever go back for the reversal surgery, I'll be able to save my visitors a small fortune :D Anyway, I was soon back on Codicote ward - no-one recognised me, but that's not surprising - and Alison came by not five minutes after I got there. All is well, I'm happy to say, and I scampered back home again.

After lunch, I crashed out for a couple of hours, which took the edge off things but has left me still sleepy enough to sleep tonight. I hope :)

Spent a a frustrating couple of hours beating the snot out of the compy and finally got the K-Lite Codec pack re-installed after it occurred to me that could be the reason none of my DVDs would play :) Once I got that sorted, my day improved. 3 fan fics that I follow all got updated today, so there was happy reading and with the dvd player working, there was happy West Wing watching.

And now there's a new season of Spooks on BBC! Yay! But I missed the first 20 mins and was all "Woe!" because they don't repeat ep 1, for some stupid reason. They show Episode 2 on BBC3 the same night, so if you watch on BBC3 and miss an episode after that, you can catch the BBC1 showing the next week. Then I remembered that the BBC will almost certainly make all the episodes available to download and relaxed. Gotta love technology :D

Hey jebbypal, Spooks Season 6 is available. Do you want to do a Spooks/Numb3rs swap again? Did that work out ok for you? Let me know :)

Boy, my tv shows have been kicking my butt this week. First Spooks did one of its tensest episodes ever, that had me squeaking frantically at the screen (also to poor jenni411 via AIM who kept getting posts going "Argh! ARGH! ARGHHHH!!" :P). Now Criminal Minds has unleashed a truly wicked cliffhanger of an episode.

ARGH!!

:)

Great TV though! *g* But now I shall watch Private Practice and think calm thoughts!

*has sudden horrible thought. Checks schedules* Oh phew! The next CM episode is next week, they're not taking a break or anything. Thank goodness! I couldn't bear to wait more than a week!