TELEVISION.
Mostly old ones.
Father Brown came back; a new series followed immediately by the repeat of an old one. I liked Mark Williams (above) in the Harry Potter films and I like him in this, even if the story lines do remind me how very dated so many of my boyhood favourites now are.
By the same token, I like Claire Goose who, in The Coroner, is surely the most unlikely law representative on television since Brenda Blethyn's Vera. Claire's Coroner is showing daily as I write, but it's the old stuff (series 1) again.
Anyone trapped into watching daytime television may also wonder that the ubiquitous Tim Wonnacott (him of the colour co-ordinated clothes, bow ties and silly hats) is still regularly fronting episodes of Bargain Hunt.
I guess the Beeb has too many hours to fill not to join in the internationally indulged plethora of ancient repeats and use of material fronted by ego-driven people they claim to have removed for one or another disciplinary reason.
It's a bit of a farce, but I doubt any of it will be more than a ripple on the sand by this time next year.
With any luck the same will apply to whatever sycophantic shit has been spouted by tabloid journalist Piers Morgan and his fellow Trump disciple Nigel Farage.
Say no more: I wish they would.
IN MEMORIAM.
Peter Skellern.
14.03.1947 - 17.02.2017
I am sitting here listening to Peter Skellern's CD Sentimentally yours which contains 20 impeccably (as always) presented songs including the moving Still Magic, a favourite of ours for many years.
Peter died of cancer - that wretched disease again - at the age of 69. He was a haunting singer, gifted songwriter and an extremely accomplished musician who studied piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His song You're A Lady brought him to prominence in 1972 and he then enjoyed a steadily successful career.
Last October it was revealed that he had a brain cancer and it was inoperable: on the 26th of that month he was ordained by the Bishop of Truro as a deacon and priest of the Church of England.
He is survived by his wife, two children and four grandchildren.
The charming Sentimentally yours will continue to be given the occasional airing in this house for as long this old geezer is around to listen to it and Still Magic will forever leave the hint of a tear in this old geezer's eye.
RIP Rev. Peter Skellern
entertainer extraordinary and a good man.
Mostly old ones.
By the same token, I like Claire Goose who, in The Coroner, is surely the most unlikely law representative on television since Brenda Blethyn's Vera. Claire's Coroner is showing daily as I write, but it's the old stuff (series 1) again.
Anyone trapped into watching daytime television may also wonder that the ubiquitous Tim Wonnacott (him of the colour co-ordinated clothes, bow ties and silly hats) is still regularly fronting episodes of Bargain Hunt.
I guess the Beeb has too many hours to fill not to join in the internationally indulged plethora of ancient repeats and use of material fronted by ego-driven people they claim to have removed for one or another disciplinary reason.
It's a bit of a farce, but I doubt any of it will be more than a ripple on the sand by this time next year.
With any luck the same will apply to whatever sycophantic shit has been spouted by tabloid journalist Piers Morgan and his fellow Trump disciple Nigel Farage.
Say no more: I wish they would.
IN MEMORIAM.
Peter Skellern.
I am sitting here listening to Peter Skellern's CD Sentimentally yours which contains 20 impeccably (as always) presented songs including the moving Still Magic, a favourite of ours for many years.
Peter died of cancer - that wretched disease again - at the age of 69. He was a haunting singer, gifted songwriter and an extremely accomplished musician who studied piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His song You're A Lady brought him to prominence in 1972 and he then enjoyed a steadily successful career.
Last October it was revealed that he had a brain cancer and it was inoperable: on the 26th of that month he was ordained by the Bishop of Truro as a deacon and priest of the Church of England.
He is survived by his wife, two children and four grandchildren.
The charming Sentimentally yours will continue to be given the occasional airing in this house for as long this old geezer is around to listen to it and Still Magic will forever leave the hint of a tear in this old geezer's eye.
RIP Rev. Peter Skellern
entertainer extraordinary and a good man.
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