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TO END THE MONTH.     

RADIO. 

I still listen in. Do you? Think I may long ago have heard the best of it, but show me an oldie who is not of that opinion. 

I tired of Chris Evans' Breakfast Show a year or so back and thereafter abandoned Radio 2. 

Nowadays it's mostly BBC Radio 4 with the ubiquitous Woman's Hour and The Archers, the seasonal I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and Just A Minute and the inexhaustible Desert Island Discs: Warwick Davis (above) had a good Desert Island selection a few weeks ago. A nice guy. 

Today it was Jilly Cooper: unsurprisingly, hers was a classy choice. 

Her racy books and her non-racy personality are equally intriguing. A nice lady. 

My Leader and I seldom listen to any radio but 4 now. Shan't speak for her (I'm not daft), but in my case you can put it down to age. 

TELEVISION. 

The Musketeers (BBC1) will finish tomorrow night. Apparently there will not be another series. 

If King Louis, as depicted in this and in the BBC2 Wednesday evening series Versailles, bears any likeness to the actual person, France just had to have a revolution. 

Repeats (everywhere). I am still avoiding all except Endeavour and the occasional Vera: there are mesmerizing leading actors in both of them. 

Golf ((BBC2) Women's British Open. The cat Shadow slept soundly through it so it had to be good. 

HOME. 

A wedding celebration. On the evening of Saturday 30th July, at the invitation of our friends Drs.Arun and Bettina Baksi, we went to Island restaurant Valentino's with fifty or so other guests to meet recently wed John Baksi, his wife Ana and Ana's parents. John (Arun's son) and Ana married in Spain. This get-together introduced Ana and her parents to the world of John's upbringing. The Island medical community. 

The majority of the those present, including the bride, the groom and the bride's father, were active or retired members of the medical profession. 

Dinner, as usual in this popular restaurant, was excellent. It was a splendid evening and a good time was had by all. 

Maureen even managed to sneak a vague snapshot of the happy couple cutting the cake (something that - along with a best man - is apparently not part of the ceremony in Spain).

We wish this worthwhile pair a long, happy and successful future.