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If I do end up getting my beloved and much wanted pooch, I will definitely be kitting it out with all the accessories and dog toys I can get my hands on — I will spoil it rotten that’s for sure.

Fancy collars, killer pet beds, winter coats — you name it, if it’s cute I am there!

I was thinking I might try and convince the husband to be on a cat first, and then build up to a dog, as cats are not as expensive…what do they need except food, drink and maybe a few scratching posts ? Plus they are a lot more independent — they take themselves for a walk so you don’t have to

Or I could do what I saw on TV today. The Biggest Loser UK contestants got a video message from home and one of the woman’s kids came on screen and announced they had been a big naughty in her absence….and got a dog! Something she had said a categorical ‘NO’ to.

But I like their thinking, once the dog is owned and in the house and all fallen in love with — who could say no? You’d surely have to have a heart of stone, and as grumpy as he may be, my husband to be does not have a heart of stone!

The show is definitely less than perfect and I wish they’d made more of it, put more effort and money in to it — it’s a huge success in every other country in the world and it could be here also given the right production, money and what not

Having said that there is something so honest and real about it compared to other versions, firstly it’s clear that a week in the BL UK house is actually a week rather than the any thing from 10 – 30 days in the others. We get to see people actually struggling physically with what they are doing — green momma having that turn out of pure exhaustion would either never happen or never get shown on the other versions for example. The lack of prize money means we get to see how determined people are to actually lose weight rather than win money. The fact people with immunity aren’t water loading and still want to be biggest losers of the week is totally how it should be and the crappy prizes for the temptations mean that the people going for them are actually tempted by the food which is all but a foreign concept now in the other versions – the only reasons any one ever goes for them is for immunity or game advantages.

It doesn’t feel like the biggest loser I know and love, but it’s interesting and a good watch non the less.

Watching the UK version of the biggest loser makes me wonder if all those guys from the USA and Australian versions are throwing pure ephedrine and the like down their necks, because their weight loss is much higher than in the UK version. Really I don’t think that’s it, the obvious explanation seems to be that in the UK version a week is actually a week, in the USA and Australian versions it is well known to be any where from 10 days to 3 weeks!

I usually love this show, but 4 episodes in and I am finding it really hard to care this year.

I can’t even place my finger on why, but it seems like a totally different show. I cannot stand Marco, but I couldn’t stand him last year either but still enjoyed the show so I don’t think him being back helps but it is certainly not that missing element.

I don’t really care about any of the celebrities, I don’t know many of them and they don’t seem like a very likable or interesting lot. But often times I don’t know the celebrities on these shows, that’s part of the fun and we get to know them pretty fast.

There seems to be little about the actual cooking this year, I have no clue who is doing what in the kitchen — I have no idea who is good and bad even. But then, I don’t care too much about the cooking…I watch the show for the drama and fun, not the cooking skills.

I like Claudia Winkleman, but miss Angus terribly — above any chef who has ever been on the show, he has been the star of the show for me, his sarcastic and cynical presenting style and one liners are what made the show a stand out. I was gutted to learn he wouldn’t be back and doubly gutted to learn he wasn’t coming back because Marco didn’t like being ‘disrespected’ by him.

Ultimately I think that it is a combination of all of the above, with Angus being gone as the final nail in the coffin.

I am officially stopping watching.

I have to say I am not that much of a movie buff, in that I rarely get excited about upcoming movies or know much about them…I just watch what I watch and I either like it or I don’t. I often go on these free screenings here in the UK, where you get to see films before they come out and I always go to them ‘blind’, I don’t read reviews or synopsis before going — but then get a kick out of reading them afterwards and realising that 9 times out of 10 the ones I like the sound of I don’t enjoy and vice verse, strange huh?

TheFilmReview.com is a UK based film review site that I came across a while ago, I will definitely add it to my bookmarks to use next time I am planning a trip to the cinema.

I just watched their Summer of Cinema trailer, that has information about what is to come over summer 2009 and there are a few films instantly added to my list such as the new transformers movie and the new Seth Rogan one.

I love my Saturday night TV here in the UK at the moment — the delightfully random and cheesy ‘Hole in the Wall’, much Harry Hill with both You’ve been framed and TV Burp, Strictly Come Dancing, Celebrity Family Fortunes and of course the mighty X Factor which I am currently loving!

Tonight however, I am going out to a firework display so I am going to miss the lot. Argh.