Many happy returns tomorrow to Hollywood superstar Colin Farrell! Time's a terrible thing.
Another "snippets post" today, dear reader:
- News news: RIP the Evening Standard, London's oldest daily regional newspaper (or at least, farewell to its daily print edition), after 197 years.
- Down memory lane: It’s 60 years since the beaches of Brighton became a battlefield over the Whitsun Bank Holiday weekend, as the simmering rivalry between groups of Mods and Rockers turned into mass brawls.
- Our neighbourhood in the news: A Bulgarian gang based in Wood Green [the shop from which they operated was literally just at the end of our road] has been jailed for running a fraudulent benefit claims scheme that robbed the UK taxpayer of more than £50million. "Neighbours. Everybody needs good neighbours."
- But it's Thursday!: Netflix has released casting details for the second series of the simply faboo Wednesday, which has just started filming - and Dame Joanna Lumley is going to be playing Grandma Addams!
- Penis news: Iceland is in the headlines again thanks to yet another volcanic eruption, but did you know, it also has the world's only Penis Museum?!
- And finally: Feral chickens are terrorising a North Norfolk village, apparently [Mr DeVice can confirm the truth, no doubt, as it's in his locale].
Extra: A memory lane mindfuck! Can it really be thirty years this week since "The Summer of Wet Wet Wet's Love Is All Around" [which was at the top of the charts right through until September 1994] began? Terrifying.
Much better was this one, which was just heading out of the Top Ten that same week:
And now, the weather - blustery.
