30 Days of TV - Day Seventeen

Today - my favourite mini-series.

Most UK series could be termed “mini” up against the 22 episodes that usually constitute a US series. I mean, LoM was only 8 episodes a series, as is A2A… some series only have 6. But I guess that a mini-series is something which is self-contained, rather than something on-going as it were.

If I'm only supposed to be nominating one of everything, then I'm failing spectacularly aren't I? Whenever a kid at school asks me, "Miss, what kind of music do you like, then?" I have a hard time answering, because how can I pick Mozart over Mahler or The Beatles over The Who? It depends on so many things - what mood I'm in, what I've been listening to recently, what's caught my ear lately. My answer would be different each day, probably, and it's no different with books or films... or TV shows.

So here, once again, I fail at choosing, because there are several candidates for "favourite" mini-series. Bugger it. It's my meme, so I'm choosing more than one!

( It is a truth universally acknowledged... )

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My washing machine gave up the ghost on Sunday. I've had it for quite a while, so it wasn't unexpected - but what IS unexpected is the problem I'm having getting a new one. Most places I've found one I'd consider buying can't deliver for ten days or more. One I found on the Comet website says delivery is in twenty-one days!

WTF?

Do they want my money or not?

It appears the only way of getting one faster is to go to an actual shop, buy it and lug it home ourselves. But washing machines are fucking heavy, so there's no way I'm doing that. Also, when they deliver, they take the old one away, which I need doing as well.

Yes, we have a local launderette, and we can always take stuff round to my Mum's if we need to. But seriously - ten days to get a new washing machine??!

What is the world coming to?!