Glenda Jackson Glenda Jackson made a significant appearance on our television screens last Sunday, at the tender age of 83, in a drama production called “Elizabeth is Missing” about an elderly woman gradually suffering from increasing dementia.  This comes towards the end of a lifetime of achievement, starting with a dazzling film career in her […]

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Clive James (1939 – 2019) Polymath Clive James died this week at the age of 80, after a very long illness.  He was known for his acerbic wit, and produced a prolific quantity of books in his lifetime.  He wrote regular newspaper columns, and was in his heyday a regular personality on our television screens.  […]

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Martin Kemp “I’m a Libra and try to take a balanced view of any situation.” ~ Martin Kemp, in an interview Bassist in the band Spandau Ballet, Martin Kemp, and his wife Shirlie released their first album together on Friday, “In The Swing Of It”.  Librans are dubbed the beautiful people of the zodiac, and […]

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Strictly Come Dancing 2019 – Part 4 And so to the rest of the competitors in what has been an amazing series so far.  And it is last, but not least… Karim Zeroual I was bowled over the first time I saw this 19-year old CBeebies presenter dance; he had such a sense of style […]

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Ginger Baker “When the city of Atlantis stood serene above the sea, Long time before our time when the world was free, Those were the days.” ~ Those Were The Days, co-written by Ginger Baker and Mike Taylor, from “Wheels of Fire” 1968 Outstanding drummer Ginger Baker died last Sunday.  He didn’t like the term […]

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Strictly Come Dancing 2019 – Part 3 Powering through the next four contestants of this year’s Strictly Come Dancing, though I still have a few more to report on later in the series.  The standard seems really high this year, and is an absorbing watch! Kelvin Fletcher Kelvin Fletcher was drafted into the contest at […]

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Strictly Come Dancing 2019 – Part 2 On with Part 2 of my survey of dance contestants for this year’s Strictly Come Dancing  competition.  Last night’s dance show was quite simply thrilling! Here are the next four contestants, and hopefully, you might have heard of at least one of them… Emma Barton Emma Barton plays […]

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Strictly Come Dancing 2019 – Part 1 And now something completely different…from politics.  Last night, the contestants for this year’s series of Strictly Come Dancing were matched up with their professional partners. Here are my first four contestants.  I struggled to find some that I already knew.  Jamie Laing has already left the contest.  As […]

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Peter Fonda (1940 – 2019) “Head out on the highway Looking for adventure In whatever comes our way …Born to be wild” ~ Steppenwolf, theme song for Easy Rider Going back to the 1960s today, in tribute to Peter Fonda, who died this week.  He is bound to the iconic role he played in “Easy […]

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Marianne Williamson “There is no order of difficulty in Miracles” ~ from A Course in Miracles New Age Author In 1992, Marianne Williamson published her commentary on A Course in Miracles “Return to Love” which made this difficult book more accessible to the average reader.  This marked her out as  a spiritual teacher, and she […]

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