In the evening it's Doggo's Christmas party, where we do really well at all the party games and he wins yet another toy. He seems to have had loads of presents and it's not even Christmas yet.
Afterwards we go collect L and Daughter who have been skating with L's sister and her kids. Daughter, the former 'shortie' of our family, now turns out to be the tallest of the five of them, oh and how smug is she about it. Of course the tall one of our clan, Son, stayed at home, with a pizza, except I forgot to tell him there was one.
A word on Bleak House that we finished watching last night. L kind of talked me into this one but I'm glad she did. I generally don't watch much TV these days as most of it is pretty second rate, so it was a pleasant surprise to discover that the BBC can still produce something as good as this.
The plot is far too labyrinthine to go fully into but it all revolves around the never-ending court case of Jarndyce versus Jarndyce. Many people are set to benefit from the case if it is ever resolved but even before it is, it impacts on all the characters in the story.
The production captures the gloom and squalor of the period convincingly and the casting is excellent. In particular Charles Dance as the scary lawyer Tulkinghorn and Gillian Anderson as the fragile Lady Dedlock but all the cast are excellent.
At first I though it was odd doing it in thirty-minute slots but in the end this works well as each episode leaves you wanting more. In fact I was sad to see it end.
I'm still bemused by the ending though, just how did Lady Deadlock kill herself in the graveyard? Did she drown herself in the rain?
Well done the BBC, now 'Shake me up Judy'
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