RIP Liam Payne, former member of One Direction, whose premature death, aged just 31, has shocked the music world.
Another snippets post, dear reader:
- Celestial bodies news: Tonight's full moon, called the "Hunter's Moon" [though quite why we in the UK have somehow adopted names given by Native Americans to various phases of the moon is beyond me], will be the brightest (and appear largest) of the year.
- More glittering news: We're very sad to hear that one of our all-time house faves - and Patron Saint - Miss Mitzi Gaynor has departed these shores for Fabulon.
[More over at the Dolores Delargo Towers Museum of Camp. Of course.]
- Irony of the day: A brand new fire station in Germany burned to the ground in a fire, causing millions of euros' worth of damage - but itself did not have a fire alarm system to alert anyone.
- Awwww moment: An emu that was abandoned by her parents has been raised by a chicken named Nugget.
- Urban myths news: Apparently the much-mocked Yank who allegedly bought the old London Bridge thinking it was its much more splendid neighbour Tower Bridge actually knew full well what he had bought, rode the publicity wave, and built a whole new town in Arizona around it!
- And finally: The World Conker Championship is in disarray after one of its champions was accused of cheating!
And the weather? Unseasonably warm - it was 18C/64.4F last night!
Mitzi Gaynor certainly was a ball of fire and very much resembled a Barbie doll come to life.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm - she may have looked like " a perfect blonde", but heavens! She was so much more shrewd, so savvy, and so much more talented than that! Jx
DeleteI always wanted to be Gene Kelly. I read about that fire station. How awful and how embarrassing. The moonrise was spectacular tonight. I hope I got a good shot of it.
ReplyDeleteYou wanted to be Gene Kelly. I wanted to be Mitzi Gaynor! Horses for courses, I suppose.
DeleteThe moon was blindingly brilliant earlier! For a change the skies were clear enough for us to actually see a celestial event... Jx
Interesting new briefs! Funny about the German fire station, they must have been going off of the infamous, "Do as I say, not do as I do." motto
ReplyDeleteOf course, I had to follow through on the link to see what the heck "Conking" was. It looks like a child's game. Do you have marble shooting competitions too?
You know, deaths always happen in threes. I hate to say it, but some other singer/performer you like will probably die soon too.
Playing "Conkers" would appear to be a peculiarly British thing - but since horse chestnut trees are not actually native to these islands, I am not sure how far back the tradition goes.
DeleteMarbles, on the other hand, is a game that was being played in the ancient civilisations of India, Mesopotamia and Egypt, and, yes - I played it when I was a kid (and quite possibly may still have a set of marbles somewhere). The British and World Marbles Championship has been held at Tinsley Green, West Sussex, England, every year since 1932, according to Wikipedia. Jx
PS All our icons are getting old - and Chita Rivera, Glynis Johns and Iris Apfel have already gone this year - so I suspect darling Mitzi won't be the last...
Since we only take a passing interest in the lives of famous people when we learn someone has died there's a 50/50 one of us will say, "I thought they already died."
DeleteThat does indeed happen - I certainly didn't realise Frank Ifield, Steve Lawrence or Bob Newhart were still alive, until suddenly they weren't this year - but I do take more than a "passing interest in the lives of famous people", hence why I do my "Book of the Dead" posts at the end of every year... Jx
DeleteIt's taken me a while to catch up, but I am still following you. Like some creepy person on a dark, misty night. I'll get a blog post up later, with luck. (It will feature sex!)
ReplyDeleteEEEK!! A stalker!
DeleteI look forward to the debut of "Dinahmow's first Sex Blog"! Jx
I still have all my marbles (pause for joke here). They're in a jar in the kitchen and look very pretty. As for conkers, there were theories when I was a kid that if you boiled your conker in vinegar, then it hardened it, but I was never invested enough to bother. Happy autumn everyone :-) xxx
ReplyDelete"Boiling your conker in vinegar" smacks of something a bit seedy to me...
DeleteI remember all the "theories" that went around about ways to ensure you won in a game of conkers - baking it in the oven, etc. I wasn't overly interested enough in the game either, to be honest. And yes, marbles look pretty, but playing it was dull, to say the least. Jx
Cheating at Conkers ! What is the world coming to.
ReplyDeleteIt's the end of civilisation as we know it! Jx
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