I don't know if I'm being foolish, don't know if I'm being wise

The weekend hoves into view, and - despite the torrential rain today - we need to get in the mood for a party!

He looks a little different these days [click to embiggen]

The fact that the formerly-gorgeous Paul Mercurio of tight-trousered Strictly Ballroom fame [see here] is (gulp!) sixty years old today gives me the perfect excuse to post a classic number that was used in the film (here performed in an updated version by its original 70s singer) - and Thank Disco It's Friday!

John Paul Young - Love Is In The Air (Strictly Ballroom)

Have a good one, dear reader, whatever the weather!

I don't wanna wind up being parted, broken-hearted

She hated Easter too, it seems.

Hooray, hooray - it's Doris Day!

Without further ado, let's celebrate that much-missed angelic voice (as featured in a rather sexy extract from Strictly Ballroom):

Doris Day - Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps

You won't admit you love me
And so how am I ever to know?
You always tell me
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps

A million times I've asked you,
And then I ask you over again
You only answer
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps

If you can't make your mind up
We'll never get started
And I don't wanna wind up
Being parted, broken-hearted

So if you really love me
Say yes, but if you don't dear, confess
And please don't tell me
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps

Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps

If you can't make your mind up
We'll never get started
And I don't wanna wind up
Being parted, broken-hearted

So if you really love me
Say yes, but if you don't dear, confess
And please don't tell me
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps

Doris Day (born Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff, 3rd April 1922 – 13th May 2019)

She's such a loss.

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Miss Kappelhoff shares her birthday with another odd assortment of "names", including Marlon Brando, Eddie Murphy (who's 60 today!), Mistinguett, A. C. Grayling, "Fat Lady" Jennifer Paterson, Leslie Howard, Marsha Mason, the recently-departed Charlotte Coleman, Helmut Kohl, notorious lesbian diarist Anne Lister, Tony Orlando, primate concervationist Jane Goodall, Alec Baldwin, Leona Lewis, Dooley Wilson, burlesque queen Sally Rand, David Hyde Pierce, Tony Benn, Miguel Bosé, the very sexy Matthew Goode, and - erm - Nigel Farage...

Whatever next?

Fans of BBC show Strictly Come Dancing are unsure whether they could accept single-sex couples doing something as deeply heterosexual as ballroom dancing.

After judge Craig Revel Horwood predicted same-sex couples would appear on next year’s show, some ballroom dancing fans claimed it might make ballroom dancing appear somehow gay.

Stella-guzzling ballroom dancing fan Stephen Malley said, “I’m like most blokes in Britain. I like beer, birds and ballroom dancing.

“Now, I don’t have a problem drinking beer with gay people, or watching gay people play football but when it comes to ballroom dancing, I’ve got to draw the line.”

Fellow Strictly fan, Mary Fisher added: “Gay people doing ballroom dancing? Whatever next? Musical theatre? Ancient Greece? Grindr?

“They should stay where they belong, in the army or doing cage fighting.”

The Daily Mash

Of course.

I just wanna dance

We have another Fabulous at 50 birthday today - dancer-turned-TV-chef Paul Mercurio, most famously the star of the sublimely camp Strictly Ballroom, and one-time possessor of the nicest arse on screen.

Any excuse, really, to post this magnificent classic montage (that includes scenes from Strictly Ballroom) - I Just Wanna Fucking Dance!

I Just Wanna Fucking Dance

Paul Joseph Mercurio (born 31st March 1963)