I don't think I've done one of these for a while. What have you been watching/reading/listening to lately?

I haven't actually watched much lately. We are working our way through Midsomer Murders from the beginning on Saturdays; I'm still watching classic Doctor Who on and off (more off than on) and we're also rewatching This Life (all on Britbox; I've also watched several episodes of Captain Pugwash which is charming), but nothing new. And I watched Dirty Dancing for the first time ever a couple of weeks ago, and liked it much more than I thought I would.

Let's have one, anyway. What have you been watching/reading/listening to lately?

(I have been working my way through Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries recently, which is hitting the right entertaining-but-undemanding buttons, though the series lacks the overtly feminist slant of the novels.)

I turned on the TV just before 9pm yesterday, having just finished work (I had a break for dinner but went back for another hour when T's online pub quiz started) and saw that BBC4 had a programme about Helvellyn about to start. A landscape documentary seemed like just the thing to soothe my frazzled brain, so I thought I'd give it a try, and it was absolutely delightful - a beautifully shot film showing the fells and wildlife throughout four seasons, interspersed with contributions from people who work, live and undertake leisure activities on and around the mountain. It turns out to be part of a series (and to have been first broadcast in 2015, but I certainly wasn't aware of it then), and I'd recommend it to anyone who has access to iPlayer and wants something gorgeous and relaxing to sit in front of. Though it did make me a little sad that I'm not sure there's much chance of my getting to see mountains - or even moderately sized hills, really - for quite some time yet.