It's Diwali - the Hindu Festival of Lights - next week! Celebrations in London start tomorrow in Trafalgar Square.
Another snippets post today, dear reader...
- Appellation d'origine contrôlée news: The MP for Basildon and Billericay in Essex has begun a campaign to secure protected status for traditional pie and mash to celebrate the “original fast food” and its London origins.
- Horticultural icon news: RIP Jim McColl, amiable presenter of the BBC Scotland gardening programme Beechgrove for 41 years. We loved him.
- Happy National Black Cat Day! Funny that it (almost) coincides with Hallowe'en...
- End of an Era: Legendary DJ Johnnie Walker, veteran of the pirate radio station Radio Caroline in the 1960s before joining BBC Radio 1, has hung up his microphone after 58 years in the business! He'll be missed...
- Cheese news: In an audacious scam, 22 tons (950 wheels) of luxury cheese has been stolen from the renowned Neal’s Yard Dairy in London. Follow that smell!
- And finally - music news: The utterly wonderful Kate Bush, our Patron Saint of Dramatic Gestures, has revealed in an interview that she is planning to release new music soon. Wow, indeed!
And the weather? Dank. Just in time for the clocks to go back, and the gloom of autumn to descend in earnest...
I hope her new album won't be anything like her last one, 50 Words for Snow is still number 1 on my shit list of disappointing albums. Sad news about Jim, I enjoy watching Beechgrove, I have a keen interest in Calum.
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