Blimey! Been a while since I’ve had time for this...
PC now has its new HD and is less FUBAR than it was, but at some point I’m going to have to tackle (or get ‘tech guys’ to tackle) it properly, 'cos while the HD is now delightfully silent and responsive I’m still getting the odd blue screen. I’m hoping to limp along until after my exam in June, then I’ll get everything looked at and hopefully perfect for starting again in September...
I was stunned to receive a copy of my local theatre’s bill of coming fare and see an ad for ‘The Wizard of Oz’ starring COMEDY LEGEND Bobby Davro. Surely that’s got to be the most misleading piece of advertising ever? I mean, two words, and both totally inappropriate, IMO. I have written to Trading Standards, and anticipate a retraction in the next programme and/or some hastily pasted amendments to local billboards. Dorothy is some Jazz-Hands semi-finalist wanabee from that awful TV prog with Andrew Lloyd-God-Isn’t He-Repulsive-Webber, the only man on the planet who can make Michael Winner look human (ish). On the plus side, they’ve got Marvin the paranoid android from THHGTTG (the BBC version, of course, not the god-awful film with Morgan Martin Freeman) as The Tin Man, and Julian Clary’s Fanny as Toto, who will be performing ‘Africa’ and ‘Rosanna’ as additional numbers alongside all of the original songs like ‘If I Only Had a Brain’, ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’, ‘Bennie and the Jets’, ‘Over the Rainbow’ and ‘Under the Bridge’. In a shameless bit of typecasting, Anne Robinson will be playing The Wicked Witch of the West, Jeanette Krankie will be playing the Munchkins (all of them, by utilising a clever mix of mirrors and stimulant drugs) and Paul Daniels will be playing the Wizard of Odd. Debbie McGee will be handling Fanny between scenes, and appearing in the chorus...
Okay, I took a bit of a wrong turn myself there as far as misleading advertising goes, but nothing quite as outrageous as ‘Comedy Legend’, and doesn’t my version sound more interesting? Apologies to any friends of Dorothy, who might be reading, and to Julian Clary’s Fanny the Wonderdog, may she RIP...
God, I’ve been loving this luvverly weather, haven’t you? Spent a good chunk of Saturday gardening, mowing the moss and clearing what looks like watercress but tastes like burning from the damp patch that I laughingly call my lawn. I don’t know how, but even after days of brilliant sunshine my back garden still manages to be soggy underfoot, and gives off a smell like the portaloo enclosure at Glastonbury. Yesterday and today have been spent cycling around the parks and along the riverbank, with my lovely son. He is off skool now for almost 3 weeks what with bank hols and royal weddings, so I’m gonna have lots of catching up to do for TMA07. Still, ‘6’ went in today, so I’ll give myself a shiny for that and try not to feel too guilty for making hay while the sun shines.
Oh well – dinner won’t cook itself, and son will be starving as he hasn’t eaten for almost forty minutes...
long time no see...
Blimey! Been a while since I’ve had time for this...
PC now has its new HD and is less FUBAR than it was, but at some point I’m going to have to tackle (or get ‘tech guys’ to tackle) it properly, 'cos while the HD is now delightfully silent and responsive I’m still getting the odd blue screen. I’m hoping to limp along until after my exam in June, then I’ll get everything looked at and hopefully perfect for starting again in September...
I was stunned to receive a copy of my local theatre’s bill of coming fare and see an ad for ‘The Wizard of Oz’ starring COMEDY LEGEND Bobby Davro. Surely that’s got to be the most misleading piece of advertising ever? I mean, two words, and both totally inappropriate, IMO. I have written to Trading Standards, and anticipate a retraction in the next programme and/or some hastily pasted amendments to local billboards. Dorothy is some Jazz-Hands semi-finalist wanabee from that awful TV prog with Andrew Lloyd-God-Isn’t He-Repulsive-Webber, the only man on the planet who can make Michael Winner look human (ish). On the plus side, they’ve got Marvin the paranoid android from THHGTTG (the BBC version, of course, not the god-awful film with
MorganMartin Freeman) as The Tin Man, and Julian Clary’s Fanny as Toto, who will be performing ‘Africa’ and ‘Rosanna’ as additional numbers alongside all of the original songs like ‘If I Only Had a Brain’, ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’, ‘Bennie and the Jets’, ‘Over the Rainbow’ and ‘Under the Bridge’. In a shameless bit of typecasting, Anne Robinson will be playing The Wicked Witch of the West, Jeanette Krankie will be playing the Munchkins (all of them, by utilising a clever mix of mirrors and stimulant drugs) and Paul Daniels will be playing the Wizard of Odd. Debbie McGee will be handling Fanny between scenes, and appearing in the chorus...Okay, I took a bit of a wrong turn myself there as far as misleading advertising goes, but nothing quite as outrageous as ‘Comedy Legend’, and doesn’t my version sound more interesting? Apologies to any friends of Dorothy, who might be reading, and to Julian Clary’s Fanny the Wonderdog, may she RIP...
God, I’ve been loving this luvverly weather, haven’t you? Spent a good chunk of Saturday gardening, mowing the moss and clearing what looks like watercress but tastes like burning from the damp patch that I laughingly call my lawn. I don’t know how, but even after days of brilliant sunshine my back garden still manages to be soggy underfoot, and gives off a smell like the portaloo enclosure at Glastonbury. Yesterday and today have been spent cycling around the parks and along the riverbank, with my lovely son. He is off skool now for almost 3 weeks what with bank hols and royal weddings, so I’m gonna have lots of catching up to do for TMA07. Still, ‘6’ went in today, so I’ll give myself a shiny for that and try not to feel too guilty for making hay while the sun shines.
Oh well – dinner won’t cook itself, and son will be starving as he hasn’t eaten for almost forty minutes...
Ciao