Watch The Birdie

My Dear Fellows & Dear Princess Normal,

Another day of wife-recuperation, another day of Australian reality telly. No, you mustn't mock. "The Bachelor Australia" has been heating up to the point of absolute effing hilarity. It turns out that one of the girls was annoyed with The Bachelor for two-timing her with 24 other girls* and referred to him as a "dog-c***". Naturally this is a big scandal and went all around the bachelorette house.

It is amazing how often a group of 25 women can repeat the phrase "dog-c***" in the space of a one-hour programme. And how it gets funnier every time they do it. We're not big and we're not clever with our telly-watching.

We also watched "Rocketman", Caro really enjoyed this movie. Unlike "Bohemian Rhapsody" this one is a proper musical, so it's like people are just having regular conversations with Elton and he'll reply by going, "Well, I guess that's why they call it the blues."

TIME ON MY HAAAAANDS 
SHOULD BE TIME SPENT WITH YOOOOOOO
LAUGHING LIKE CHILDREN 
LIVING LIKE LOVERS
ROLLIN' LIKE THUN-DAH
UNDER THE COVAAAAAAHS
AND I GUESS THAT'S WHY THEY CALL IT THE BLOOOOOOOOS**

There's even full-on lyric conversations between people saying things like, "When are you going to come down? When you are going to land?" and the other replies, "Should have stayed on the farm, should have listened to my old man."

"Lyric Conversations" strikes me as an EXCELLENT game to play when you are quite drunk.

Also there's lots of choreographed singing and dancing, so it felt like a traditional musical with the songs squished in there in any old order, and not just running through his greatest hits like the Freddie Mercury movie. That said, it kind of misses out on the BIG FINISH side of things. There's no big concert at Live Aid, or what have you. But it's still really good.

Punky, as you can see, spent his time watching birds out of the window. And now I've posted this I've made a mental note to wash that effing window.

S.

* Which is a bit unreasonable of her, given that "Man Goes Out With 25 Women At Once" is the actual sodding premise of the show.

** He doesn't actually sing this song in the film. I was most disappointed.