1. Miss Lemon from the hit TV show Poirot was played by actress Pauline Moran. From 1965-70 Moran was the bassist in all-female rock band She Trinity.
2. I was goosed today in a pub. By a dog.
3. Fledgling herring gulls are fearless, inquisitive and loud.
4. Daytime TV reminds you that certain sitcoms were indeed masterful. The Rodney-Cassandra wedding episode of Only Fools & Horses, where Del Boy is left alone at the end, was impactful, emotionally economical, more insightful than 3mnths of narrative arc in a typical soap.
5. Hugh Fraser, who played Captain Hastings in Poirot, is an amiable cove on Twitter. He writes novels these days.
6. The experimental music programme Late Junction on R3, hosted by Verity Sharp, is ideal for schlepping back up the M90/A90/A947 late doors.
7. Recent Flaming Lips videos have been remarkable (Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds feat. Miley Cyrus; Almost Home).
8. Only R3 could have a breakfast DJ called Petroc Trelawney.
9. Wrecking Ball, for all its faux-controversy, is a fine pop song.
10. The Proms get a bad rep for their appalling nationalist finale. The programme however is kicking.
#1 is a tasty morsel of triv. for music-nerd quiz setters.
#2. Who enjoyed it most? You or the dog?
#6. Late Junction is great driving-home-from-a-midweek-gig music. I wish I could always remember that it was on.
I once had a phoned-in comment read out by the charming Ms. Sharp, after she’d played something or other by The Nice. I’d remarked that it was a shame so much stuff on the Immediate label was so badly recorded, thus displaying my nerdiness to the entire LJ listenership.
#8. PetRocs were briefly fashionable many years ago, IIRC.
#10. This year’s Proms have been great for fans of jazz & big-band music. The Scott Walker, the Shankar & Glass and the National Youth Orchestra’s Proms were all goodun’s too.
I know at least 3 different songs called Wrecking Ball – which one are you referring to?
mug of tea/open backed organ=flash/bang.
I can’t vouch for the rest of the country but for me the news media should ditch “Brexit,” and focus their attention entirely on #1.
More important, and so much more interesting.
AB45 – around Banff, I think. Fitlikee?
” I was goosed today in a pub. By a dog.”
Better than being dogged by a goose, methinks….