One of the great advantages of modern technology is the ability to watch live TV feeds from your home country.
This means we can watch BBC and ITV as they happen, only three hours ahead!
One of the funniest programmes is the quiz show The Chase, which airs at 8pm here.
What makes it so funny is that you can follow live comments on Twitter, so if a contestant gives a particularly wrong answer or makes the wrong choice then the Twittersphere lights up with funny, stupid and downright insulting comments.
I know it’s wrong, but they are hilarious.
Another great TV programme is the Great British Bake Off (GBBO). This year’s series has just finished and I am sure the winner is going to go on to be a culinary personality on our screens for the next few years.
We love this programme because, just sometimes, they bake something that we can actually do as well – so it sends us into the kitchen to make pies, cakes, breads and tarts.
Of course, our efforts are nowhere near as good as the ones on the telly, but as we are only making ours to eat and not be judged they are adequate.
However, a couple of years ago that gave us an idea for an event.
We decided to host our own version of the GBBO and created the Great Amwaj Bake Off.
We invited our friends and acquaintances to come to our house with a pie, cake, etcetera.
The only rule was that it needed to be something that had been in an oven at some point.
The categories were sweet and savoury, and the response was fabulous – with a full house of competitors and both the table and the sideboard crammed full of bakes.
The judging was intense and eventually the winner was announced a fabulous Gala pie.
The standard was set and every year our friends try to trump what was offered the previous year.
This year is no exception and the competition, which took place yesterday, was fierce.
My wife created a spectacular apple pie, while I did my best to build a croquembouche.
We had photos of friends sitting in front of their ovens, watching intently.
We have had expletive ridden comments from other friends about collapsed pastry and leaking tarts.
We have even had friends call us evil and nasty for putting them through pastry purgatory.
I am glad to say that some of the competitors treat it in the spirit it was meant and simply buy a pie.
One year someone turned up with a Fray Bentos steak pie cooked, but still in its tin.
To top that his mate showed up with a Fray Bentos steak pie in an unopened tin and said to me: “Cook that, will you.” And so the wooden spoon was born.