I had a rare evening to myself yesterday. I finished yet another cardigan for baby number two in front of "An Education" which was showing on Sky Movies.
I enjoyed this film hugely, not least because it is set in Twickenham, a London suburb where I lived for a couple of years in the 1990s.
Once the film was finished I couldn't face the dross that was on TV, so I decamped upstairs to see if there was anything worth watching on BBC iPlayer.
Friends and colleagues of mine have raved about a show called Outnumbered. The British sitcom about a middle-class couple and their precocious kids has been showered with praise and awards since it started a couple of years ago.
I was expecting big things. I hated it. The three children are horrid brats and their parents are so spineless that I'm surprised they can stand up straight. If this is what modern parents are supposed to aspire to, then I'm not surprised that so many children have never heard the word 'no' and are running rings round their ineffectual parents. Rant over!
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