RIP, "national treasure" Miss Una Stubbs. The world is a duller place without that twinkly smile...
Another weekend looms, dear reader - and this will be my last before the world of work beckons once more. By way of a final blow to what was going to be a fun-filled holiday fortnight, our gang's planned trip to see the new (and much-lauded) Barbican Theatre production of Anything Goes tomorrow has been cancelled again, thanks to someone in the cast or crew being "pinged" or tested positive for COVID [details are unclear], which has pissed me off mightily.
Never mind, eh, let's brighten up the mood a little bit as the week draws to its close with a "party choon", shall we?
Thank Disco It's [oo-er] Friday [the Thirteenth]!
Hope your weekend gets off to a better start than mine has, my leetle chums!
I had no idea. And just last night she was in the Midsomer's Murders episode I watched. I also seem to remember her in an appearance of Call the Midwife and Marple.
ReplyDeleteIt's very sad news - as if I needed anything else to make my mood even worse... Jx
DeleteWonderful actress - and so much love from the people she worked with
ReplyDeleteShe appeared to be completely genuine, not in the least "showbizzy" or "thesp". She will be missed. Jx
DeleteAll her most famous roles were in things where someone else had the main part - whether they were Sir Cliff, Warren Mitchell, Anthony Bewley, Jon Pertwee or Benedict Cumberbatch - some egos there I imagine.)
DeleteShe was in a great radio play written by John Finnemore a while back, in his Double Acts series, she starred with Tamsin Outhwaite. That's the only thing I can think of where she was the lead, or one of them.
I think Miss Stubbs was quite happy as a "character actress". Jx
DeleteI hated Aunt Sally as a child, she seemed so horrible. I'm sure if I watched it now I'd just want her to tell Worzel to piss off. She was out of his league. Wonderful performances from her and Pertwee though.
DeleteI thought her name was Eunice Tubbs.
I thought she had snuffed it years ago.
ReplyDeleteShe was one of the "talking heads" in the documentary commemorating the 75th anniversary of VE Day just last year... Jx
DeleteI loved her on the painting show a few years back. She was a pretty good artist herself. Nice woman, I was sad to read the news that she’d died.
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I never caught that show - but then again, as you know, I'm no great fan of "reality" or "challenge" TV. Jx
DeleteI've had trouble commenting here, on your other site and a few other places both Blogger and Wordpress. I don't think they like us double dipping on both platforms. Stingy twats! I hope this comment goes through.
ReplyDelete****A belated Happy Birthday to you!*****
I'm sorry your play was cancelled. I love salvias. I never know which ones will be annuals and which ones will give me two or three years and then never come back. Every year year seems to have a "historic weather event" nowadays.
Most salvias are "tender perennials", it's just that some are better at coping with our British winters than others. We treat S. coccinea as an annual, for example, as it is so reliable from seed, and will grow three feet or more in a season from a Spring sowing. Jx
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She was lovely and will be missed.
ReplyDeleteI agree - there was no-one quite like her! Jx
DeleteOh no! Una, you and I were going to keep going forever. "If this bus gets here!"
ReplyDeleteShe was 84 and had been ill for some time, apparently, bless her... Jx
DeleteOh, no, what a dismal start to your weekend. And poor Una Stubbs! I was a big fan of "Give Us A Clue" (well, I used to love watching it and trying to guess what they were acting out), but I couldn't stand Worzel Gummidge. It's hard to believe that lovely Una could play the nasty, horrid Aunt Sally.
ReplyDeleteYes, Give Us a Clue was a telly fixture at ours, too. I was a bit old for Worzel Gummidge tbh, but I and my friend Carol did go dressed as the characters to a fancy dress party in the early '80s - she was Worzel and I was Aunt Sally [the only time in my life I have ever done "drag")! Jx
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