17 March 1999. Popular entertainer, Rod Hull, died (aged 63). He always appeared with Emu, a mute and highly aggressive arm-length puppet. Hull died while trying to adjust the TV aerial on the roof of his bungalow, then slipping and falling to his death.
Thinking of Mum today A flawed but talented woman and genuine star of the “dog eat dog” world of Broughty Ferry Amateur Dramatics. Folk still stop me in the street to discuss her Fagin, often negatively (the ad libs were deeply offensive) but by Christ she made a mark #MothersDay