Television - Good or Evil?

Sometimes I wonder if our lives would be better if we got rid of our televisions.

Could this family actually make it through a day without tv? Well, that would certainly depend on what day it was. I mean monday's, tuesday's, thursday's and friday's are a NO because Eastenders is on and I absolutely cannot miss that...And when I somehow do (for whatever reason) I sit down that night and catch up using BBC IPlayer - but that's still television, just a smaller screen. I guess I could read about that week in the tv guide, but what fun would that be? But, I digress. Television has certainly evolved over the years. We started off watching in black and white, then we had the four standard channels (wasn't it called terrestrial or something?) and now we have satellite, cable, Sky+...you can pause and rewind live tv! And record without a video! Yeah...but back to my original question - is TV good or evil? I don't really think it's either, but I would love to know your opinion. Also, what programmes could you absolutely not do without?

In our house the television is on most of the day but that's because we switch from children's channels to regular channels to the radio channels. So it tends to serve as background entertainment.

Have a think...How much tv do you allow your kids to watch?

Mine certainly don't sit in front of the tv for hours...I mean that would make me a bad mother, right?

Beware: Children's TV in the mornings!

I can actually feel my IQ dropping.

I've just watched a woman dancing around in a studio, dressed up in pink and yellow, donning fairy wings and a bag of glitter singing "If I were a fairy with soft fluffy wings, i'd flutter about and do fabulous things..."

What like get a grown up job? HAHA

And now it's...Captain Puffy Pants? I'll leave that one to your imagination.

Making: A Charlie & Lola picnic!

We love Charlie & Lola on dvd, and one of J.R's fave episodes at the moment is "The most wonderfullest picnic in the whole wide world"

So since today was looking to turn out another rainy sunday, I decided to put together a Charlie & Lola style picnic for the girls! Sausage rolls, sandwiches of ham and shredded cheese, carrots, cheese straws and a few extra goodies...

It kept them occupied for hours (no lie!) and J.R insisited on watching the picnic episode over and over just so she could see that the food she had in front of her was the same :)

It was a brilliant afternoon, and knackered them both out - with little effort!

So, as they used to say on Art Attack:

Try it yourself, a Charlie & Lola picnic.