The Diplomat
3x04 Arden
3x05 Birdwatchers
Weird time jump and status quo changes between episodes four and five, so extreme that it feels like the start of a new season or something. Makes me wonder if they were expecting Netflix to do their two-part release thing, which didn't happen.
Richard Osman's House of Games
9x51 Week 11: Monday
9x52 Week 11: Tuesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Sunday, 15 February 2026
Video Games
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
When I loaded this up today, I actually had a plan to act on what I said yesterday... then I hit an unexpected roadblock (in short: a bug I thought I'd fixed, but hadn't), spent a bunch of time clearing that, then did a spot of travelling, with the usual distractions, and eventually ended up at the first waypoint on my target... after well over an hour of play. I do love this game, but at times like that, it feels pretty frustrating. I even had to set it down for a bit (gasp!)
When I came back later, I finally progressed to my fifth city — huzzah! Didn't have time to explore most of it thanks to all that wasted time earlier, but hey, progress. And it's only nine days since I encountered my previous one! Real progress. If I keep going at that accelerated rate, I'd finally visit them all by... early April. Jeez. Huge game.
When I loaded this up today, I actually had a plan to act on what I said yesterday... then I hit an unexpected roadblock (in short: a bug I thought I'd fixed, but hadn't), spent a bunch of time clearing that, then did a spot of travelling, with the usual distractions, and eventually ended up at the first waypoint on my target... after well over an hour of play. I do love this game, but at times like that, it feels pretty frustrating. I even had to set it down for a bit (gasp!)
When I came back later, I finally progressed to my fifth city — huzzah! Didn't have time to explore most of it thanks to all that wasted time earlier, but hey, progress. And it's only nine days since I encountered my previous one! Real progress. If I keep going at that accelerated rate, I'd finally visit them all by... early April. Jeez. Huge game.
Saturday, 14 February 2026
TV
The Diplomat
3x03 The Riderless Horse
How I Met Your Mother
1x11 The Limo [2nd watch]
Richard Osman's House of Games
9x48 Week 10: Wednesday
9x49 Week 10: Thursday
9x50 Week 10: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
The Rookie
7x03 Out of Pocket
3x03 The Riderless Horse
How I Met Your Mother
1x11 The Limo [2nd watch]
Richard Osman's House of Games
9x48 Week 10: Wednesday
9x49 Week 10: Thursday
9x50 Week 10: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
The Rookie
7x03 Out of Pocket
Video Games
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
Feel like I didn't achieve much today. I did a quest... well, most of one, because if you finish it at the level I'm at, you don't get any rewards, so I have to wait to hand it in. One skill I did push through several levels was pickpocketing, in order to get a specific perk, so that was a success. Otherwise, I mostly just built a bunch of furniture at my house, so it now looks a bit less empty. But that doesn't feel like much to show for over 2 hours playtime. Once again, I'm at a one point where I'm kinda just noodling about without a specific goal — I need to either dive in to going somewhere new (but where?) or get stuck into one of the many (many) quests already sat in my journal (but which?)
Feel like I didn't achieve much today. I did a quest... well, most of one, because if you finish it at the level I'm at, you don't get any rewards, so I have to wait to hand it in. One skill I did push through several levels was pickpocketing, in order to get a specific perk, so that was a success. Otherwise, I mostly just built a bunch of furniture at my house, so it now looks a bit less empty. But that doesn't feel like much to show for over 2 hours playtime. Once again, I'm at a one point where I'm kinda just noodling about without a specific goal — I need to either dive in to going somewhere new (but where?) or get stuck into one of the many (many) quests already sat in my journal (but which?)
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
The 60th anniversary collector's edition Blu-ray of Thunderbirds finally arrived this week (delayed from the end of last year), which means I can finally ditch my original UK Blu-ray (which had the episodes 'remastered' into widescreen) that I never watched, and also my older DVD copies (which I kept for the original aspect ratio) that I also never watched. Will I now finally rewatch the series on this shiny new edition? God only knows.
Number of titles in collection: 3,666 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 974 [down 2]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,692 [up 2]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 506 [up 2]
Number of discs in collection: 8,803 [no change]
Number of films: 4,705 [up 2]
Number of additional cuts: 483 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 10,163 [down 29]
Number of short films: 1,282 [up 2]
See you next week, faithful reader.
The 60th anniversary collector's edition Blu-ray of Thunderbirds finally arrived this week (delayed from the end of last year), which means I can finally ditch my original UK Blu-ray (which had the episodes 'remastered' into widescreen) that I never watched, and also my older DVD copies (which I kept for the original aspect ratio) that I also never watched. Will I now finally rewatch the series on this shiny new edition? God only knows.
Number of titles in collection: 3,666 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 974 [down 2]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,692 [up 2]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 506 [up 2]
Number of discs in collection: 8,803 [no change]
Number of films: 4,705 [up 2]
Number of additional cuts: 483 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 10,163 [down 29]
Number of short films: 1,282 [up 2]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 13 February 2026
TV
The Diplomat
3x01 Emperor Dead
3x02 Last Dance at the Country Club
How I Met Your Mother
1x10 Belly Full of Turkey [2nd watch]
Richard Osman's House of Games
9x46 Week 10: Monday
9x47 Week 10: Tuesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
3x01 Emperor Dead
3x02 Last Dance at the Country Club
How I Met Your Mother
1x10 Belly Full of Turkey [2nd watch]
Richard Osman's House of Games
9x46 Week 10: Monday
9x47 Week 10: Tuesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Thursday, 12 February 2026
TV
Richard Osman's House of Games
9x44 Week 9: Thursday
9x45 Week 9: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
9x44 Week 9: Thursday
9x45 Week 9: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Video Games
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
Here's that screenshot I mentioned yesterday, to contrast with the 73-hour one — this is at 151 hours, so 78 hours further on.
As I said, most things haven't changed at all (even though half my reason for going to Riften was to join the Thieves' Guild, I still haven't), although Misc Objectives has gone up a more-than-proportional amount: it was 73 at 73 hours, so I've done 113 in the next 78 hours. That's nice, because I half suspected the average would've gone down — I feel like I've spent a lot of time noodling about with non-objective-based things like house building and decorating, smithing, alchemy, enchanting, and general exploring, rather than always doing tasks and missions.
I'd like to say "maybe now it's time I did get on with quests", but with so much of the map still unexplored (six out of ten cities still unvisited!), there's still a lot of potential for just "seeing what I find".
Here's that screenshot I mentioned yesterday, to contrast with the 73-hour one — this is at 151 hours, so 78 hours further on.
As I said, most things haven't changed at all (even though half my reason for going to Riften was to join the Thieves' Guild, I still haven't), although Misc Objectives has gone up a more-than-proportional amount: it was 73 at 73 hours, so I've done 113 in the next 78 hours. That's nice, because I half suspected the average would've gone down — I feel like I've spent a lot of time noodling about with non-objective-based things like house building and decorating, smithing, alchemy, enchanting, and general exploring, rather than always doing tasks and missions.
I'd like to say "maybe now it's time I did get on with quests", but with so much of the map still unexplored (six out of ten cities still unvisited!), there's still a lot of potential for just "seeing what I find".
Wednesday, 11 February 2026
TV
How I Met Your Mother
1x09 The Pineapple Incident [2nd watch]
IMDb says this is episode 10, but it was definitely episode 9 where I watched it (and it was the same all those years ago when E4 aired it, too).
Richard Osman's House of Games
9x42 Week 9: Tuesday
9x43 Week 9: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
1x09 The Pineapple Incident [2nd watch]
IMDb says this is episode 10, but it was definitely episode 9 where I watched it (and it was the same all those years ago when E4 aired it, too).
Richard Osman's House of Games
9x42 Week 9: Tuesday
9x43 Week 9: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Video Games
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
Passed the 150-hour mark today! I've been meaning to share an update of the image I posted at 73 hours, but for the moment, suffice to say most of those stats have not doubled. Heck, it's likely most of them haven't increased at all.
Passed the 150-hour mark today! I've been meaning to share an update of the image I posted at 73 hours, but for the moment, suffice to say most of those stats have not doubled. Heck, it's likely most of them haven't increased at all.
Tuesday, 10 February 2026
TV
Richard Osman's House of Games
9x40 Week 8: Friday
9x41 Week 9: Monday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
The Rookie
7x02 The Watcher
9x40 Week 8: Friday
9x41 Week 9: Monday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
The Rookie
7x02 The Watcher
Monday, 9 February 2026
TV
The Night Manager
2x05 Episode 5
2x06 Episode 6 [season finale]
[Watch the whole series (again) on iPlayer.]
Richard Osman's House of Games
9x38 Week 8: Wednesday
9x39 Week 8: Thursday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
2x05 Episode 5
2x06 Episode 6 [season finale]
[Watch the whole series (again) on iPlayer.]
Richard Osman's House of Games
9x38 Week 8: Wednesday
9x39 Week 8: Thursday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
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