Of George, irrelevant awards, cocks, life-forms, cult TV, a jam-marketeer and a cow

A new production of Sondheim's Sunday In The Park With George, starring Ariana Grande and the very lovely Jonathan Bailey, will open at the Barbican Centre in London in summer 2027. We must get tickets!

It's another snippets post, dear reader:

• Big yawn news: The nominations for this year's Oscars have been announced. Once again, there's nothing in any category that has even tempted me to want to see it, and many films I've never even heard of. I won't be watching.
• Big cocks win medals news: Ski jumping officials have introduced new checks after claims some athletes were injecting acid into their genitals to gain an advantage. A bigger penis means a bigger suit and that helps aerodynamics, apparently. I could think of better things to do with one than skiing!
• Primordial monsters news: A 370 million-year-old fossil found in Scotland is an entirely new form of life which towered 26ft tall, scientists have confirmed. Either that or they were aliens. I await the conspiracy theories...

RIP Patsy King, better known as "Governor Erica Davidson" in Prisoner Cell Block H - heavens, how I loved that show! "That will be all, Miss Bennett!"

• Gold-digger news: Meghan Markle - the artist formerly known as "Duchess" - continues her trajectory towards being a pastiche of herself, as her much-over-hyped Netflix show Meghan With Love has proved an almighty ratings flop, and is rumoured to have been cancelled. Karma is a cruel mistress.
• Moo news: The world's media has gone mad about the discovery that Veronika the Cow can scratch her own arse by using a broom - the first time a farm animal has been recording doing so. There wasn't much on telly in Austria that week.
• And finally...

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And the weather? Pissing down all day, and no sign of it brightening up for a while yet. Roll on our trip to Spain!