Thought for the Day

Amen.

A Public Service Announcement...

...from Suella Braverman Scarfolk Council!

You

Were

Warned!

Handy hints to stick on your fridge and then forget about

...courtesy of "First Dog On The Moon" in The Guardian.

Remember, remember the Fifth of November

It may be a little late in the day, but...

Hale and Pace - Fireworks Safety Song

It is Guy Fawkes' Night!

Aunty June says wash your hands

Happy 87th birthday today to the icon that is June Whitfield CBE!

She has, in her long career, played ditzy "Eff"in The Glums, the long-suffering wife in Terry and June, and various characters alongside such greats as Jimmy Edwards, Tony Hancock, Roy Hudd, Arthur Askey, Frankie Howerd, Benny Hill and the Carry On team. She has stuck her tongue firmly in her perfectly-crafted cheek for "cult" roles with Julian Clary, French & Saunders, and in Dr Who, culminating in possibly her best-loved role as Gran in Ab Fab.

She has sung with big and small bands, played deadly serious as well as light entertainment parts; the woman can do anything - yet, who knew she once played a bacterium?

With the modern craze for health'n'safety, and recurrent "plague scares" (bird flu, MRSA, ebola etc) in the tabloids, it's easy to forget that in our own recent past even the most rudimentary facts about contamination of food were felt sufficiently misunderstood that public information films such as these were commonplace. This, of course, is more than just that - it is a stroke of camp genius:

June Whitfield and Frank Muir - A Tale of Two Microbes

Now wash your hands!

June Whitfield on IMDB

Pay attention, now...

"Sue avoids red nail polish as it would draw attention to her stubby hands."

Dress and make-up advice from the 1940s that we all should pay attention to!

How to Be Well Groomed (1949)