Yes! I've returned from a whirlwind weekend with Baby Steve and Houseboy Alex, trawling the garden centres of Essex, and have come back with quite a haul:
Meanwhile, fuck the Pope - we're in mourning for the lovely Clodagh Rodgers...
...and by way of a celebration - and perfect for a Tacky Music Monday - here she is!
RIP Clodagh Rodgers (5th March 1947 – 18th April 2025)
Have a good week, peeps - I will; I'm off until next Monday!
I swear I commented on your previous post yesterday, but I think Blogger sent it to Purgatory. Rip Clodagh Rodgers. I haven't heard of her before, but she looks like a lovely person and adorable in that outfit that I could never pull off in a million years even at my best, methinks.
ReplyDeleteI have moderation on for messages on posts over two days old, Melanie, and I just recovered yours.
DeleteMiss Clodagh Rodgers was one of our great "TV-variety-show-queens" in the early 1970s - appearing on just about every primetime show from The Cliff Richard Show to The Two Ronnies to Seaside Special - as well as getting to 4th place in the Eurovision Song Contest. I remember her being a bit of a "fixture" in my childhood. Jx
Being across the pond from y'all, Miss Clodagh is unknown to me, but she had a lovely voice, sweetpea! I saw "Concave" recently, so I'm expecting Stanley Tucci to announce the next Pope as a Hispanic transgender man and I'm all for it! xoxo
ReplyDeleteI've not seen Conclave, and being completely anti-religion, I am unlikely to do so. It won't matter a fig who gets to wear the frocks, the Catholic Church is still going to be the sinister, mind-controlling empire it has always been. Jx
DeletePS Glad you liked Clodagh!
I haven't heard this in years! It should have won!!! The backing crew aren't very lively - I blame them.
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It only came fourth! It was Monaco wot won it - with a song that no-one remembers... Jx
DeleteGreat singer. I think this was too close to "Puppet on a String" to win again. The formula just didn't work the second time.
DeleteYou may be right, Den. By 1972, we'd changed styles - and the New Seekers' Beg, Steal or Borrow (rightly a classic) was only pipped at the post by Vicky Leandros Apres Toi. At least that was a worthy winner! Jx
DeleteI miss going to the nursery and bringing home a big score of baby plants. I realize now I had a very strong tendency towards becoming a plant hoarder.
ReplyDeleteI understand that concept completely - but it's not going to stop me/us! Jx
DeleteMy mother wasnt impressed with CR's when she saw her perform in a nightclub in Hull back in the 1970s she thought she had a mental health problem, it wasn't her performance that let her down, but her attitude when she left the stage during the interval, her face changed into a mask of fury having to pass by the scratters and she was heard yelling NO AUTOGRAPHS, but she had lovely hair.
ReplyDeleteShe also thought Cilla Black was a cunt.
So many "beloved" stars are or were cunts in real life. I've heard bad things about Davina McCall, Dame Sian Phillips, Rod Hull, Charlie Drake and (needless to say) Rolf Harris, but Cilla Black was in a rudeness league of her own... Jx
DeleteI have a really difficult time with the Catholic Church, but as far as recent popes go, he was an improvement. I wonder what’s yet to come. I would have had a ball at garden centres with you all. We have no live plants in our new place... yet!
ReplyDeleteI'm like a kid in a sweet shop where garden centres are concerned!
Delete"I'll have one of those, and two of those..."
Jx
Same here!
DeleteI look forward to seeing what plants you choose for your balcony this time! Jx
DeleteVicky Leandros deserved to win with Apres Toi. Loved it then and love it now.
ReplyDeleteIt's a great song! Jx
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