Cute photo with Katie by the TARDIS
With only a week or so to go, I finally got to Brighton and the Doctor Who Exhibition. Well if anyone was going to go, it would be me, right? 
And without further ado, some photos…
Brighton Pier
Chicken Soup with Barley
Anyway, the play was great – particularly the actress playing Sarah – mother of the Khan family. A group of Socialist\Communist Jews in the East End, the collapse of their dream is paralleled in the collapse of their family as the father loses the will to live, the daughter escapes to the country and the son becomes utterly disillusioned with everything. OK it wasn’t cheery, but it was good.
Gromit
Tomorrow – Brighton and the Doctor Who Exhibition just in time before it closes. And then homework!
Oh and if anyone wants to see my spoof David Cameron movie, MSN me
Ofcom
Well, me and 64 others who waited 10 months to be told we were right. Still, at least the system works. Albeit slowly.
The Programme Code states that commercial products must not be promoted in programmes. The initial banner message inviting viewers to find out how to obtain extra channels appeared on screen simultaneously with programming. While accepting that it may be necessary from time to time to inform DTT customers of new ‘free-to-air’ channels they can view by resetting their boxes, the purpose of this message was clearly to promote Top Up TV – an additional service which requires a subscription fee to view the extra channels offered. It was not transparent to viewers that the message formed part of an advertising communication until after they had clicked the red button. We consider that the banner message indirectly promoted a commercial service within programming and was therefore in breach of the Programme Code.
The inclusion of the banner advertisement during programmes was in breach of Section 8.1 of the (ex-ITC) Programme Code.
I did not know this:
Selling alcohol to someone who is drunk carries a fine of up £1000; a court may suspend or remove a certain licence upon conviction
Selling alcohol to someone who’s drunk is illegal? How drunk is drunk? Is this ever enforced? What about selling alcohol to someone who is high or under the influence of something else? How can this even be true?!?
Maybe this should apply in other areas as well? Dominic’s list of new things to outlaw:
Selling fast food to someone who is obese
Selling clothes to someone who is well-dressed
Selling the Daily Mail to someone who doesn’t like immigrants
I’m at a post-Bar Mitzvah party right now where there is a real, literal chocolate fountain! You can put food on sticks and then coat them! Katie’s face is understandably messy right now…
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Helen on It’s (waiting) time.: “Fabulous news, congratulations to you both! X” Jun 8, 21:51
