Amy Winehouse “We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred times You go back to her And I go back to black” ~ Amy Winehouse It is ten years since the passing of Amy Winehouse from alcohol poisoning, at the tender age of 27. I wrote at the time: “Amy Winehouse is the Janis […]

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Entrepreneurs into Space Last Sunday, vying for our attention with the men’s singles finals and the European Cup, saw Richard Branson launching himself into space on Virgin Galactic.  This coming week it will be Jeff Bezos, and later on Elon Musk.  It seems to be a passion for some rich and wealthy inhabitants of Earth, […]

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Bob Dylan turns 80 It was Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday this week.  In celebration, I would like to select a song for each Sun sign, and quote some lyrics.  I  hope you like them, but if you find better examples for your Sun sign, please comment below! Aries This Wheel’s on Fire This wheel’s on […]

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Mary Beard This week Mary Beard announced her retirement as Professor of Classics at Cambridge University next year.  In doing so, she intends to boost diversity by leaving an £80,000 fund for students from under-represented groups. Birth Chart Born with the Sun in Capricorn plus the North Node, Mercury and Chiron in that sign, Mary […]

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Kate Garraway and Derek Draper “I pray for him every night, in my prayers” ~ Sir Elton John This week television schedules featured a documentary “Finding Derek” about Kate Garraway and her husband Derek Draper, who faced an induced coma this time last year from Covid-19, and is on a very long road to recovery.  […]

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Roman Kemp 28-year old Roman Kemp has just made a documentary about mental health.  I usually try to vary my blogs, but it is looking like Mental Health month here now…first Meghan Markle, then Caroline Flack, and now Roman.  He was driven to make this programme “Our Silent Emergency”, which aired last week, by the […]

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Caroline Flack (1979 – 2020) We started the week with a mental health issue (Meghan Markle) and at the end of the week we were reminded of the death by suicide a year ago of Caroline Flack, who was also hounded by the press.  On Wednesday evening there will be a screening of a television […]

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Oprah and the Interview with Harry and Meghan You might be wishing this story would go away, but with Oprah’s impending interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, it is likely to intensify over the next day or so.  In the U.S. the interview will be taking place this evening.  In the U.K. it will […]

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Britney Spears Britney Spears has been in the news this week: firstly for a documentary “Framing Britney”, which is yet to be shown in the U.K., and secondly, for winning a court case against her father.  “Framing Britney” was initially released in the U.S. on 5th February and documents through interviews and film her years […]

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Captain Sir Tom Moore (1920 – 2021) “Tomorrow will be a good day” “…the doctors and the nurses, they’re all on the front line, and all of us behind, we’ve got to supply them and keep them going with everything that they need, so that they can do their jobs even better than they’re doing […]

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