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 today 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 faboo 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.