A Public Service Announcement: You were warned! [thanks to Madam Arcati for stumbling across this one]
It's another snippets post today, dear reader:
- Bag madness news: Jane Birkin's original "Birkin Bag" recently sold in auction at Sotheby’s Paris for the gob-smacking sum of 8.6 million euros (£7.4m; $10.1m)! How ridiculous. It looks like a tatty old school satchel!
- God news: Stephen Sondheim's vast archive is now available to view at the Library of Congress in Washington DC. I wish. Maybe one day, one of our own venerable institutions - the British Library, perhaps - might be able to bring it for an exhibition over here in London...
- Because we can, can, can news: Bonnes nouvelles! The landmark sails at the legendary Moulin Rouge are turning again, a year after they unceremoniously collapsed.
- Down memory lane news: It's 75 years since Andy Pandy first came to play on our TV screens. Repeated for decades after its launch in 1950, it was indeed on telly when I was a tiny tot - and continued well into the 1970s, when they started making new episodes. [It's been remade since with CGI, for fuck only knows what reason.] And the inspiration for the beloved puppet's design came from a most unexpected source - a familiar face on our screens to this day.
- Woke-gone-mad kids' clubs news: Girl Guides can now earn badges for activities such as "fandoms", being a "booktivist" and sharing their "guiding sparkle", apparently. WTF?! Whatever happened to traditional badges like Cook, Cyclist, Dairymaid, Domestic Service, Embroidery, Entertainer, Horsewoman, Interpreter, Knitter, Laundress, Minstrel, Naturalist, Needlewoman, Poultry Farmer or Scribe?
- Royal traditions news: It's "Swan-Upping" season on the River Thames!
- And finally: RIP, the craziest-of-crazy frontmen of heavy rock, Mr Ozzy Osbourne!
Let's ROCK!!!
And the weather? Grey.
