One of the drawbacks to waiting patiently for American TV shows to air in the UK and not getting actively involved in the fandoms is arriving very late to discuss any upsets or news. So thus when I say: ( Spoilers for ep if, like me, you live in a foreign country or have been living under a rock )

A nice day yesterday, taking the train up to London for a day's shopping with mum. mostly so I could try out some of the perfumes I'd been reading about in Luca Turin's book although I also ended up buying a lovely lilac woollen hat by Missoni from Liberty.
It was fascinating the different way mum and I experienced the same smells - I was in raptures over "Jicky" by Guerlain whilst she recoiled and said it stunk precisely like Deap Heat linament rub. (Which has apparently been reformulated - if it  really does somehow now smells like Jicky, I'm applying it in lieu of body cream in future!)
Elsewhere with Guerlain, I was disappointed not love L'heure Bleue more than I thought i was going to. Equally , the appeal of Mitsouko eluded me. Annoying as it is THE classic Oriental Scent and utterly groundbreaking and influential but I just couldn't get it. However, I was delighted to find that Shalimar which I wasn't really expecting to truly love was utterly heavenly. It smells like lemon caked baked by Angels and thus now, so do I. In "Wise Children" terms, this now makes me Nora Chance rather than Dora despite me feeling I'm personally more like the latter.

On an unrelated note, we finally get the new season of CSI Las Vegas starting on Tuesday , ie. season 9. In the hiatus I've been watching old episodes and at the moment am utterly hooked on Hodges. As Wallace Langham (so brilliant as Phil in The Larry Sanders Show)  was made up to full cast member last season, I'm hoping that this season will have decent storylines for him. and if they want to explore the hero worship/ full blown crush he has on Grissom, well, that would suit me fine - Hodges' utter joy at earning praise from Grissom, walking away skipping and punching the air to the strains of ELO's Mr Blue Sky  at the end of the "Lab Rats" episode may well be my favourite part of any episode to date.

The rest of the world has been watching the new season of CSI for ages, but good old Channel 5 in the UK likes to take its sweet time about this sort of thing and we only got the season eight premiere last night. And I was disappointed in it.