The Diary of a Nobody

[callmemadam]

Yesterday I watched the 2007 TV series of The Diary of a Nobody. This is a brilliant one-man performance by Hugh Bonneville, one of the best interpretations I know. The interiors are a delight and watch out for the Pooters' yellow breakfast set: I have a part tea set in the very same pattern!



Or similar.

My copy was recorded off the TV but if you live in the UK you have to wait until March this year to get a DVD. Why such a well-kept secret? Americans can buy it on Amazon.com right now.
My reading and TV watching are linked at the moment. Watching the David Jason version made me re-read The Darling Buds of May; I re-read The Diary of a Nobody last month; the other evening I watched I Capture the Castle and now have a strong urge to read that again.

Note that everything I'm watching is a recording. This is because, just when the weather is at its worst and TV and knitting call, there is NOTHING ON in real time. Another treat has been to start watching my Christmas DVD: the complete series of Outnumbered. Utterly brilliant! And at one point the Hugh Dennis character is channel hopping (with rude remarks) and complains, '47 channels!' and he still can't find anything to watch. Back to the DVD then.

Comments

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Or, as Pink Floyd put it in The Wall, 'I've got fifteen channels of sh*t on the TV to choose from'. And that was in the USA! Who'd have thought the idea of fifteen channels would seem so dated now?

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Excellent quote! More means worse?

Thank you so much for Outnumbered; not a dull second in it.

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

I can't remember how you feel about fanfic, but if it's at all your thing, I cannot recommend ankaret's sequel to I Capture the Castle highly enough. The Account Book (http://archiveofourown.org/works/30290) is around 20,000 words of Cassandra during the war, with a lovely resolution to the Mortmain/Cotton dealings.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I know it's your thing but not really mine, however well done it is. That does sound interesting though...

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

On the flipside, there's the line from National Lampoon's European Vacation: "I think this is broken - I can only get three channels, and none of them is MTV!"

[dorianegray.livejournal.com]

Goodness, I think my mother has a tea set in that pattern too, inherited from her mother!

[land-girl.livejournal.com]

I love that china!! I also love the book and can never read it enough times.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

I bought mine at the market for about a pound!

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

The china was a fab buy at the market one day. Some chaps had obviously cleared out an elderly relative's house and were practically giving stuff away. I also got a darling little Crown Derby coffee cup, an old one.

I feel just the same about the book.

[susievereker.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

I love Outnumbered. Will watch out for DVD Diary of a Nobody inc teaset

[ramblingfancy.livejournal.com]

Thought the Outnumbered Christmas Special was the highlight of the Xmas viewing. Such a fab series!

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Isn't it brilliant? The best thing on over Christmas and they buried it late on Sunday evening! Did you spot young 'Karen' playing Enid Blyton's daughter Imogen in the biopic? I've also noticed the boy who plays Jake in The Armstrong & Miller Show.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Agreed!

[lurpak.livejournal.com]

Karen is wonderful - 'the face of an angel and the mind of a barrister'. My youngest niece is so much like her!

[(Anonymous)]

I love Outnumbered ... but their Christmas special was as laaboured as everything else on television recently. Even the Christmas Cranford, a shadow of its former self. The only decent thing has been the films noirs series, very very late ... I'm an insomniac but even I lose the plot when films don't even start until 2am. Still,there's always Strictly Come F-word Big Brother In The Jungle -- which spells the off-switch.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Your niece sounds terrifying! I'd rather cope with a Karen than with a Ben, though.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

I did enjoy the Christmas Outnumbered.
I was rather peeved that what I expected to be a feelgood Christmassy Cranford included two sad deaths!

[tisfolly.livejournal.com]

Lovely teaset! I collect fifties and sixties glass sets myself, though they are getting hard to find in charity shops these days.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It was one of the things I hung on to when I moved house, because it's so pretty. Before downsizing I got rid of boxes of china and glass but I can't stop myself looking at it again now and occasionally succumbing.