Small hen by a hart.

 I hate myself for having caught a few episodes of Britain's Got Talent but the thing that strikes me is the way the audience are treated with contempt on the one hand as everything is geared to getting people to phone in and generate income and then with more intelligence than they previously assumed. This stems from the disdainful comments the judges make in their attempts to steer the vote whilst not taking the audience reaction into account. Most approbation appears to be reserved for those acts who dare not have a different routine for subsequent rounds as if bands and comics change their set list and routine from one night to the next when on tour. The audience either like the act or not and for an amateur to have several routines mapped out seems rather demanding before that audience tires of it. The public's ability to withstand repetition is stronger than the judges imagine and this is not a recent phenomenon as Norman Collier managed to get a career from pretending to have a faulty microphone and dropping his jacket below his shoulders and strutting around like a chicken. Similarly Bernie Clifton did not do too badly by riding around on a stuffed ostrich and in both cases it became their USP whereby they were not allowed to evolve as however many new jokes they put into their set the audience went to see them do their "thing".
   In Bethany news a couple of nice days saw the paddling pool make an appearance which she enjoyed although possibly a little too much. Aside from everything within a ten foot radius getting soaked she took to using her bucket and spade that was left over from a trip to Redcar the day before (could not see the dead whale but there was a strong smell of fish). As the spade was more of a ladle she used it to fill the bucket with water from the pool but alternate scoops she used for drinking. She turned down offers of juice preferring instead to drink the pool water with added floaters.