50. I love a good read

BLOGGERS IN BLUE.

Lady In Red has long been a popular tune.
Bloggers In Blue, according to my newspaper today, are playing a far less popular tune so far as the sticklers, the PC PCs and above, of the police service are concerned.
Bloggers In Blue, they say, should be sacked.
All blogging, they strongly hint, should be banned by law.
Now that worries me almost as much as do the 'findings' of some gormless git who thinks we should all be paying by the mile to travel on roads for which we already pay an annual road fund licence fee. Which, incidentally, the Tossers-In-Power spend on everything but the roads.
Anyway, Bloggers In Blue.
I love a good read.
So I welcome the news that we have law enforcers who can do something other than present motorists with £30 to £60 on-the-spot fines for minor infringements.
Around here it would be a waste of time calling for help from the three police officers (two men and a woman) who are collecting a fortune in the parking bay of the school opposite.
They are far too busy fining young mums who have neglected to fasten their seat belts before driving away from the school.
Around the corner you could be beaten to death and no one would come to your aid.
Daft world, ain't it.

JESSICA...

I did a posting about Angela Lansbury yesterday. Then I deleted it.
I didn't think it was quite right.
You see, although I have read her biography, I suddenly realized that I know very little about the British born actress except the parts she has played.
Notably the crime solving thriller writer Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote.
I concluded that although most of the M.S.W. stories are tosh, sprinkled with dire American/Scottish, American/Irish and American/Cockney accents and laden with sadly older - much older - former film and tele stars, Ms. Lansbury was always the same... she was very good.
Physically she never altered, either.
Perhaps she has a picture in the attic.
But I have a soft spot for any Jessica, anyway, because of our granddaughter.
As I mentioned in Not Everybody Will Like You (17th November) Jess, now 11, has finished reading Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.
She has started on Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials.

AND EMMA.

Back on one of our Harry Potter midnight publication trips to POttakers the children were invited to arrive as Potter characters. Prize for the best lookalike.
Our Jess went as Hermione Granger.
She didn't win.
There was an excellent Harry.
But the store manager said: 'I do wish we could give a second prize. This little girl is wonderful.'
She was happy with that.
When I bought the DVD Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire there was an extra DVD showing interviews with various cast members.
A bunch of young Americans interviewed Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint.
One of the questions asked of the three went along the lines of:
'What books have influenced you?'
Apart from the obvious reference to the Harry Potter stories, Daniel mentioned the Louis Sachar story Holes, Rupert had to admit that he seldom read at all and Emma said: 'His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman.'
No wonder the boys go in such ill-concealed awe of her.
She is Hermione Granger.
So, in her own non-acting sort of way, is our Jess.