All good things must come to an end

I knew it was too good to last. Stupid Starworld channel. How dare they mess with my television viewing - do they not know the impact it's likely to have on this sad, pathetic English girl in Hong Kong??

If you're wondering what on earth I'm wiffling on about - I don't blame you. I'm just having trouble forming coherent sentences at present. Mainly due to the short-sightedness of the stupid channel that is Starworld.

Calm, calm. Deep breath.

Regular readers will remember my lamenting and general grousing over the frankly abysmal quality and variety of television programmes/channels here in Honkers. And yes I know, much like the guy who poorly reviewed a hotel in New York that Helen and I were about to check into for not having sufficient movie channels, I'm in Hong Kong and TV shouldn't be my major priority. Well it's not. Honestly, it's not - but you can't actually go out every day and just wander around just because you're in another country - that's what you do on a week's holiday, not when you're around for an extended period of time - it eventually gets expensive because you have to eat and drink, and pay for things to make the wandering more interesting!

So, it is with a heavy heart that I bring it to your attention: the Ellen DeGeneres show has been taken off the air here. I'm thinking of setting up a Facebook support group so that I can join with other people who are similarly traumatised. 2pm (HK time) won't be the same.

On the plus side, that's an extra hour that I can devote to my new 'be more focused' plan for 2009 and I might regain a shred of credibility from you, good readers, for not watching such a piece of broadcasting. I am also in a good mood today (despite the above; I discovered it yesterday but thought it was more of a Friday topic of discussion, so have made my peace already) because it's the weekend which means non-stop Packer/Pies time and tonight we're being cooked for by Xavier and Emma (always exciting when one doesn't have to make one's own dinner!)

Also, though not sure how much coverage this will have been given in the UK, but a flight containing 153 people emergency-landed in the Hudson River (in New York) last night and somehow everyone on board survived, despite it being pretty bloody chilly in the water. I know I'm a sap, but things like that always make me happy - it's nice to get some good news every now and again.

So anyway, in tribute to my dearly departed friend Ellen (just off the air, she's not dead or anything), and because it's a Friday, here's a clip that makes me laugh quite a lot. It may not seem that interesting, but I'd advise you to hang on till 2 minutes 34 if you can.