Rafa, Kylie, racoons and the Nottingham heatwave

Many happy returns to David Lee Roth of Van Halen, who is (gulp!) 70 years old today! Time's a terrible thing...

I know you love them as much as I do, dear reader, so it's another "snippets" post today:

• Oops! news: A glitch in the BBC weather app caused a bit of a stir when it forecast that London was set to experience winds of more than 13,000mph on Thursday while Nottingham would have overnight temperatures of 404C!
• Word games news: Our darling Princess Kylie is a fan of Scrabble and crosswords, apparently.
• Happy World Porridge Day! I haven't eaten the stuff for years. It's not the sort of dish I'd immediately rush to if I was hungry, to be honest. Not while pain au chocolat exists.

• Sports totty news: Legendary Spanish tennis champion Rafel Nadal has announced his retirement - at the age of 38!
• Don't feed the vermin news: A huge troupe of raccoons is holding a woman hostage in Washington State in the USA.
• And finally: Also celebrating a milestone birthday is the very lovely and supremely-talented Miss Sarah Lancashire (formerly best known as "Raquel Wolstenhulme" in Coronation Street, latterly famous for the award-winning gritty crime drama Happy Valley), who is 60 today. We actually saw her on stage in the much-underappreciated musical Betty Blue Eyes way back in 2011, and so, by way of a tribute - this:

Sarah Lancashire - Nobody

Faboo!

PS And the [actual] weather? Definitely autumnal.