Another peek up my back passage, with new plant shelving centre-stage
It's another snippets post, dear reader:
Checkout rage news: A wheelchair-using woman went berserk and started throwing her shopping at another customer in Morrisons in Eccles, Greater Manchester. I only came in for a balloon," said the victim...
...meanwhile, in Thailand they do it bigger and better - as a hungry elephant was filmed helping itself to snacks in a grocery store!
- Chav news: A woman from Newcastle complained her holiday in Corfu was a "nightmare" because the hotel had no English food and not enough chips. Perhaps someone should point out to the stupid cow that Corfu is, in fact, in - erm - Greece?!
- Geek news: Much chatter has erupted in nerdy sci-fi fan circles, after the surprise ending of the current Doctor Who series showed Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor incarnation transform into - Billie Piper, who played the Doctor's companion "Rose Tyler" in the early seasons of the show after its revival back in 2005! Confused? You will be...
- Jewellery news: Nancy Astor's gorgeous turquoise and diamond Art Deco tiara [above] has sold at auction in London for the princely sum of £889,400! I wanted to put a bid in, but it probably would have been too small anyway...
- People's Princess news: Speaking of auctions - a collection of frocks, accessories and memorabilia of the late Princess Diana are being auctioned in a few weeks' time. Maybe this time, I'll be lucky? [I have my eye on that ostrich-feather fan!]
- A gay pioneer departs: RIP, gay author and memoirist Edmund White, whose ground-breaking A Boy's Own Story was essential reading for me and a whole generation of gay men when I came out in the 1980s - and remains a classic of its genre today. Read a selection of tributes from authors (and others) who he influenced.
- And finally: It's the marvellously eccentric Miss Laurie Anderson's birthday today! What better excuse to play this bizarre number (a favourite of mine)? All together, now...
And the weather? Pissing down and miserable. "Flaming June", my arse.
