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The joys of Sky +

This week I finally joined the 21st century. No doubt you’ve been up to speed for a few years now. I’m one of those people who says I’m gonna do/sort/mend/build something and finally gets round to it two years after I first thought about it. So, at last, on Monday I got Sky +.

Now, I would love to sing its praises and tell you what amazing things I can now do with my new box of tricks but the thing is you probably already own one of the things and I’d merely be preaching to the converted. Instead I thought I’d tell you about the first two programmes I recorded on it (I only managed to watch them today because I embarrassingly had to wait for a friend to show me how to watch the programmes I’d recorded - yes for the first time in my life I felt like my dad!).

Gavin & Stacey: in a word - brilliant. That programme utterly deserves all the plaudits it receives. I’m now eagerly awaiting the inevitable repeats that will litter the schedules of UKTV Gold so I can see the ones I missed the first time (I knew there was a point to that channel).

Bear Grylls - Born Survivor: nutter forgets his water bottle. This guy is great, he’s like an extreme boy scout. He would be amazing on I’m A Celeb as nothing would faze him - ‘here Bear eat this kangaroos eyeball’ Dec would say. ‘Just the one?!’, Bear would reply ‘give me the other one and while your at it let me wash it down with a pint of fermented fish guts!’

Lovely.

If that image was a bit too much for you, you may wish to go straight to Nick Snaith’s next blog entry. It’s about to get a little worse.

Bear Grylls is a man that lands in the Sahara and so badly needs a drink of water he demonstrates how to find some from a seemingly empty desert or a deserted desert if you will (I just fancied writing those two words next to each other, it added nothing to the story - I apologise). All you need is a knife, a camel and a really twisted mind!

Still haven’t clicked away? Good. Let’s continue…

So, he kills this camel (that’s not the nasty bit). Then he slices open his belly (still not there) and firstly drinks the ‘water’ that surrounds the camels three stomachs (there’s more), not content with this source of hydration he then opens one of the stomachs (why??) grabs the contents (I know…) and then shakes the digested mess over his face in the hope a few drops of moisture trickle down his throat (What the hell?!).

If you actually want to watch that for real (admittedly you probably won’t) get your self Sky and make sure your package includes UKTV Gold. I’m sure they’ll screen it again soon.

See you tonight from 7.

M x

Posted by Matt Wilkinson on April 24, 2008 at 09:43AM

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