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.
ReplyDeleteKate's career has been a series of ups and downs, hasn't it? I agree, 50 Words for Snow was a bit of a "Curate's Egg", but one never knows what she might come up with...
DeleteJim appeared to be a genuinely lovely man. I'm quite surprised you have a "thing" for Spud Boy Calum, however. Jx
An odd choice granted, it started when I had an erotic dream about him, he took me roughly over a stack of growbags in the poly tunnel, George from sunny Joppa was there too, masturbating and dribbling but kept his distance. I have a thing for newsreader Lewis Vaughan Jones too, he'll be reading a horrific news story and I'll be sat there tweeking my nipples in ecstasy.
ReplyDeleteLord knows what you'd been imbibing that night, Mitzi! {{shudders}}
DeleteI had to look up Mr Vaughan Jones - a touch of the Chris Isaak about him. A much better prospect than a Beechgrove orgy. Jx
Our clocks won't turn back for another week, and I'm glad of it. I hate when the evenings get dark so early.
ReplyDeleteMe too. It depresses me every year. Jx
DeleteI'm disappointed that Kate Bush didn't transform into Wonder Woman after that spin on the stairs.
ReplyDeleteShe'd terrify the living daylights out of Lynda Carter with those moves. Jx
DeleteVery sad news about Jim. A good gardener and presenter and an all round decent sort of a chap.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely. Jx
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