poor Dexter, not too popular~ We do have to FF thru a lot of it.. Brotherhood, another good one, also violent but has a great story and fab characters.. We try to guess who's about to get it next.. (uh, oh.. you said the wrong thing then;-)

We enjoyed "Island at War". We find all of our Brittish series on DVD from our library unless we've recorded them off PBS. We're about to record "Mr. Selfridge's Store". We finally got around to starting "Anna Karenina" yesterday afternoon -- what an imaginative, knockout production! Jude Law is Karenin. Keira Knightly (28) is Anna. Vronsky is played by a very young man of 22 (dull performance) . I spotted Michelle Dockery as a Russian princess. She plays Mary Crawley in "Downton Abbey". I've never seen the dance steps performed at the ball where Karenina and Vronsky dance together. It sounds like a mazurka, but I've never seen these steps with all the hand and arm gestures. Anyone know?

I used to be a sit-com nut. They and variety shows are what I was raised on. TV was pretty safe and my parents let me watch what ever I wanted. My dad loved tv. Barney Miller, Bob Newhart, MASH, Happy Days, Mary Tyler More. That's not counting the shows that were already in syndication in the 70's (when I was a kid); Bewitched, Dick Van Dyke, The Brady Bunch, etc. We have almost completely stopped watching TV before 9 pm since our kids were born (13 years). There are sit-coms out that I hear are really good, and I know I would love them, but I have never seen them. Scrubs, 30 Rock, My name is Earl, 2 1/2 Men. I wont even pause on the FOX network. You can't trust the shows to be anywhere near appropriate for children and I'm not going to disappear into another room to watch tv while my kids are still awake. My all time favorite, either MASH or TAXI. "What does a yellow light mean?" HA HA HA HA

We can't access BBC over here in Sweden so I'll have to wait to watch it on Youtube or hope that Swedish TV buys it. I've visited Hampton Court with my daughter and we had such fun, in part because this trip to England was the last we did together because she was expecting her first baby. We got lost in the maze with lots of other visitors and we all followed two little girls of 8 or 9 who seemed to know their way out. I know costmary quite well, we call it Swedish sage or balsam leaf. It is related to tansy, not to sage. It was one of the seven church herbs used in nosegays that women wore in church to keep awake during long sermons and to ward of the smells of unwashed people.