Ten Reasons To Put Your Hands Up (because you, like me, love JLS)

I thought long and hard about how best to return to the blogging scene. Only this morning, I walked past Rachel Stevens (or was she sitting there, waiting for me to come by? It’s possible) and thought to myself, ‘Yes. I’m totally ready to start almost-but-not-quite liveblogging Strictly Come Dancing.’ Alas for me but even more so for you, SCD is still some way off (though not as way off as Series 3 of Miranda: I occasionally wake up in a cold sweat convinced that it won’t return at all. 2012? TWO THOUSAND AND WHAT I CALL TWELVE?!). And so I turn to a subject just as close to my heart: the musical magnificence and boyish brilliance of JLS. By the end of this post, my one hope is that you too will put your hands up (and then down again, because you need to comment on the post pronto. Blog comments are like happy-birthday messages on Facebook: the only true measures of happiness). Read the rest of this entry »

The Apprentice: Week Four? Five?

Oh, it’s Week Six. I was wrong. Time flies.

21.04: these early-morning, oh-I-just-happen-to-be-waking-as-a-BBC-camera-crew-drifts-past-my-face shots never cease to amaze me. How? Why? When? Read the rest of this entry »