Screentime
"Lad: A Yorkshire Story" - worth avoiding As this godawful pandemic proceeds into its second year, we should give thanks for screentime. For most people in the western world watching television has been our salvation. It has helped to get us through these trying months in which normal life has been well and truly suspended. Previously, I sang the praises of the first three series of "The Handmaid's Tale" starring Elisabeth Moss. It absorbed me for many hours thanks to our daughter Frances who signed us into her Amazon Prime account for free. She also gave us free access to Netflix. In England on recent Sunday evenings it seems that the whole country has been glued to BBC 1 watching the sixth series of the tense police drama "Line of Duty". It contains many twists and turns and you never quite know what is coming next but I must confess that I do not see what all the fuss is about. If I never saw another episode, I would not mind at all. On Satur...