before tonight's Rough Diamond

[NWRA]

<br>Nobody attended last week’s Rough Diamond preview evening which I held in my cupboard, so I will watch the double bill of Meercat Manor to get me pumped, down a few cans of alcohol, cry and pretend to be a dandelion, and finally settle down for a cracking hour of top class entertainment (Rough Diamond).

Is anyone else keeping up with the adventures of Aidan Doherty and co.? or are you all watching highbrow documentaries about clouds on BBC4?

I think its progressing nicely. And, after ‘studying the form’ several times (watching the first three episodes again and again, rather than going to work), I’ve come to the conslusion that Aidan’s horse will beat that nasty businessman’s horse in ‘The Cup’. I can’t bloody wait.

Also, did you know on the Rough Diamond website, Aidan is described as ‘a feckless charmer, full of banter and quick wit, but commitment-shy when it comes to relationships… ‘, without a single mention to him being a horse racing trainer? I think somebody should tell him why he only has five horses in his stable.<br>

[Sal]

I shall spend the time before Rough Diamond tonight having my mouth taped up by my beloved other half to stop me shouting at the telly in the event of something stupid occurring.  Random example – last week, the newspaper has headlines from July, yet their new €50,000 super stallion is just covering his first mares.  

Hmmm, maybe I should have my eyes taped up too….

Having said that, I am enjoying the hokum, maybe more for the perverse pleasure of spotting howlers than for the formulaic plotting and sometimes cardboard acting.

[Andrew Hughes]

I haven’t seen this yet. Is it better than Howard’s Way?

[apracing]

<br>NWRA,

I suspect the hero’s problem is that very few trainers are ‘feckless’.

In fact all the ones I’ve known use ‘feck’ as every third word.

AP

[Andrew Hughes]

:biggrin:

[Irish Stamp]

I’ll be watching my flatmate try her hand at Bandioke (Karaoke with a band instead of a backing track) down at Walkabout.  If it’s anything like our last night out together (we were in A and E till 6am) it could be marginally more interesting than Rough Diamond.

[Mounty]

lol @ NWRA – surely a contender for "best first posting of the year". As for me, being a classy kind of guy, I’ll be watching Dream Team on Sky One.

[betlarge]

I am currently watching ‘Half Ton Man’ on C4 about a geezer from Nebraska who weighed a healthy 75 stone.

It’s making me feel quite trim.

Mike

[Chompy Draw Boy]

A five-minute power walk round Dudley at dawn each morning should soon have you feeling proper trim Mike. Avoid the balti houses if possible<br>Rough Diamond is top class entertainment. That female jockey was most unlucky to have taken a fall at Redcar though I feel

[Andrew Hughes]

I did one of those power walks through Dudley a couple of Fridays back.Took me an hour and half to get to Kingswinford. Didn’t lose any weight off the stomach but nearly lost a couple of toes to frostbite. <br>

[Irish Stamp]

Didn’t go out in the end, will be doing Tuesday instead.

[beauzam]

episode 4 contained the following;"I don’t want to be a genius, I want to be a jockey!"

[Author]

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