Plenty of time to do something useful

What Kati Did Next

IT’S not going too well for the “Strictly Come Dancing” lot is it?

Firstly, there was the ageism debacle with poor old Arlene Philips being deemed too old by the powers that be and being given the right royal heave ho for a much younger model.
Secondly, there was the racism debacle when posh boy Anton du Beke — du Berk more like — likened his dance partner, after she had spent too long on a sunbed, to a not very nice slang word.

And then if that wasn’t enough, that doddery old fool Forsyth twitters away like a canary down the mines between each dance and then they make the whole programme last two and a half hours.

The things I could be doing in two and a half hours.

Well for a start I could get some very important work done, the stuff that I have been putting off for, oh, months.

I could do all that hideous filing that is peering at me over my desk.

I could do the washing up before it starts turning green and asking me if I would be so kind as to get some suds sudding for their benefit.

Or I could do brilliant things like take a dance class myself.

Yes, get out to a club and salsa away a couple of hours, where I can legitimately have a glass of wine or two because I am “out” and taking exercise, unlike porked out in front of the telly with a takeaway on my knee.

I could read a book. There must be loads of books I’ve not read. Fun stuff like Bill Bryson or an autobiography or two.

I could watch a decent film like “Slumdog Millionaire”. I’ve been planning on watching that for ages.

Ever since they were caught at the Oscars jumping around like ejits, I have planned on watching that film. Two and a half hours should do it.

Or catching up with friends, now I really should do that, haven’t spoken to some of them for months.

Gosh, isn’t there a lot of things I could be doing?

So many in fact that I think I’ll just sit down, with a takeaway and a glass of wine, and watch a quick 10, all right 20, minutes of “Strictly”.

Then I’ll know what to do with all that time.