I was looking to see where on TV I can watch the French Open Tennis which starts next week and discovered that Jack Draper is out through injury and so is Carlos Alcaraz. So no big Sinner/Alcaraz final then.
It's on TNT Sports and £30.99 for the month again. Last year I decided to afford it by not going to the big Suffolk Show or the 1940s weekend at the Middy Railway. I'm undecided this year - £30.99 for a month goes against the grain..............but I do love tennis.
Although no Suffolk Show for me this year either - it's just too big, exhausting and expensive (£33 pre paid for concessions or £40 on the day - £48 for other adults - Good Grief!! ). Much as I enjoyed going and watching the show jumping and everything else a few years ago.
But I think I will go to the Middy Heritage Railway 1940s thing over late May Bank Hol weekend as I want to see the new extra quarter mile of track which takes the railway to within one field of where I used to live.
After watching several sessions of the 17 days of the World Snooker Championships on TV which finished on the early May Bank Holiday Monday I discovered the Seniors Snooker Championship was on from last Wednesday to last Sunday. Good to see 24 of the 'oldies' - actually they only need be over 40 - so still young. Then they were plugging a snooker tournament called the 900 which started on Pluto TV on Tuesday. It has a very different format to proper snooker, had to google it to see how it works- not a fan.
In between all the sport I've been watching episodes of Bull. This has just appeared on the 5 catch-up channel arriving from the US and starring Michael Weatherly who was in NCIS when I watched that back in 2022. This is the precis if you haven't seen it..........
Dr Jason Bull, a psychologist and a trial science expert, heads a consulting firm that helps its clients choose the right jurors and aids them in deciding the best argument that can win the case.
Makes a change from police/special agent things. Looks as if it had six series from 2017 to 2022, so it's taken a while to get to watch for free here. What I like about US dramas is that they make so many in a series - here we're lucky to have six!
Then of course there is the World Cup Football which starts on the 11th June and finishes 19th July - I'm not much of an international football fan so when it overlaps with Wimbledon (29th June to 12th July) The tennis will come first.
We seem to have crept around to the Eurovison Song Contest this year (tomorrow night) and I'd not even heard what the UK entry was. So I looked on line..............Oh Good Grief! What a weird one.
Lots of Countries are boycotting the Eurovison this year after Isreal were allowed to enter.
So much for trying not to let politics into what was meant to be a song contest .........now it's just a weird music/fancy dress show!
I shall probably half watch.
Maybe I watch too much TV, but it's good company in a very quiet home alone.
Going back a couple of days - thank you to everyone for comments on the post about SS Nevasa. It was good to hear from other people who'd heard of these Educational Cruises. Not common knowledge!
I don’t pay for extra channels but a good watch on bbc 2 catch up was Children of the Blitz if you have not already watched it. I know you have an interest in ww2. Sandra.
ReplyDeleteEurovision used to be fun when we were young, now it's over the top weird!
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Thank you for the heads up about Bull, I liked Michael Weatherley in NCIS. And the format sounds interesting. Sometimes crime dramas are so formulaic, you know whodunnit from the first couple of scenes!
ReplyDeleteI so agree with Sandra re: Children of the Blitz, so informative, we usually hear from children who were evacuated not children who stayed. My daughter has always loved the cycling, The Tour de France etc. That now has to be paid for. She is digging her heels in and not paying, so disappointing. There are so many channels now, more quantity the quality. That’s why it’s good to get recommendations so thanks Sue, will give Bull a try. June
ReplyDeleteWe've watched Bull when it was on 5USA (free), channel 21, a few years ago. Really enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteI shall wait until tennis reaches freeview tv... like you I enjoyed the last few games of the oldies snooker (didn't watch all of it) but won't bother with the quick-fire version. Half the interest in snooker is watching the players take their time working out the next shot.
ReplyDeleteEurovision? No, not any more. Too noisy, too flashy, too weird! Gosh, I must be OLD
Sue, after my husband died 18 months ago, I wanted to make some changes to my life. I thought I would watch baseball in 2025. I'd watched and enjoyed baseball as I grew up and understood the game, but my husband didn't like to watch sports. He was hooked on old movies and controlled the remote! However, when baseball season rolled around last year, I wasn't in any condition to start anything new. (Besides, I didn't know how to work the remote).
ReplyDeleteDuring the playoffs last fall, an old boyfriend from college and I reconnected. He loves baseball and got me started watching. This year I spent $99 to watch all 162 Seattle Mariners games. Before, I never would have done this. But think of it--potentially 162 games for 61 cents each! And while I love live events, I get a lot better view (and replay) on my wide screen color TV. So, Sue and other friends, do the math before you decide to forgo enjoying things you love. The French Open might be worth it!
Old boyfriend (actually current BF now) and I live 350 miles apart, see each other about every two months and talk on the phone every day. Some days we have a date to go to the ballgame together--we talk on the phone and eat popcorn while we watch the game on TV. I have seen all but three of the Mariners games this year--about 40 so far. We are both 80 years old--going on 18 as we like to say.