RIP, Nicholas Ball aka Hazell. A long-distant "secret crush" when I was a teenager...
Another "snippets post" today, dear reader:
- Society news: Anyone who was anyone was at the wedding yesterday of one of Britain's wealthiest men the Duke of Westminster to Olivia Henson. Except Harry and Meghan. My invitation obviously got lost in the post.
- Soap opera matriarch news: Helen Worth aka "Gail Platt" is set to leave Coronation Street after fifty years! I remember her and Suzy Burchill as Elsie Tanner's lodgers...
- Clink, clink, sweeties: Happy World Gin Day!
- Avian news: A Chilean Blue Eagle called Guido patrols The Shard to scare off seagulls or any other winged creatures who try to make the skyscraper a nest site.
- "Flatter now!" A statue of Victoria Wood in her hometown of Bury was unceremoniously knocked over by a taxi.
- Musical icon news: Happy 90th birthday to the lovely Millicent Martin - star of Side By Side By Sondheim [see more here and here] and That Was The Week That Was!
- And finally: Britain cheers at the news that the "claymation" national treasures Wallace and Gromit are returning to our screens this Xmas!
And now, the weather: Flaming June?! My arse.
I love Wallace and Gromit! I looked for you at the wedding. We all missed you.
ReplyDeleteWallace and Gromit are a joy! [And the penguin's making a return, too...]
DeleteI was tempted to don a frock and a stupid hat and try and sneak in as one of the minor Royals, but I thought bugger that - who wants to go all the way to Chester just for that..? Jx
Gail's leaving Coronation Street? What about her hair? Is that going too??
ReplyDeleteI expect her hair to have pride of place in the Coronation Street museum, alongside Phyllis Pearce's blue rinse. Jx
DeleteThey say this is normal for Flaming June - if so, then how come it got the tag 'Flaming'?
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, my hair understudies for Gail's hair if it's left to its own devices - does this mean it's out of a job????
Sx
Flamin' awful, that's what it is! Torrential rain showers here... And cold.
DeleteAs for your hair's pending redundancy, I am sure Shirley Carter might have a vacancy... Jx
Sad new news about Nicholas Ball.
ReplyDeleteOlivia Henson is a lucky girl. she chose the Fabergé Myrtle Leaf Tiara for her wedding but could have used the Bagration tiara, the Rosebery Tiara, the Westminster Halo Tiara amongst others
Victoria Wood's statue being knocked over, she would have found that funny. Was the taxi driver on the Gin !
We saw all those tiaras at the V&A's exhibition way back in - gulp - 2002!
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PS Yes, I imagine Victoria Wood may have had a quip or two to say about her statue's unceremonious knocking off...