Many happy returns to the very lovely "friend of the gays" Hannah Waddingham, 50 today!
Another snippets post today, dear reader:
Sport news: It's the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris today! Let's hope there's not another appearance by the GaGa creature - she has form where appropriating wheelchairs is concerned.
- Architecture news: Contractors refurbishing the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery found a hidden "time capsule" letter from the Late Lord Sainsbury thanking them for demolishing a false column he hated in its lobby area.
- Nature news: A rare "ghost orchid" has been discovered in a British woodland, fifteen years after scientists last saw it, and believed it had become extinct.
- Bearskin/bare skin news: A guardsman who served at HM The Queen's funeral and at the Coronation of King Charles has been crowned "Mr England" in a beauty contest. I'm standing to attention as we speak...
- Hello Barbie, let's go party: Nokia has launched a new "Barbie phone" for kids that has - gulp - no social media access. Poor darlings.
- And finally - Gallagher ceasefire news: You'd have to be living on another planet to have missed the news that famously-bickering Liam and Noel Gallagher have put aside their fierce insults to re-form mega-90s band Oasis for a massive tour next year. Defintely, maybe. To round things off nicely, here's their all-time classic, and my fave track of theirs:
And the weather? An "Indian Summer" is upon us!
