Last night, Jeffrey & Judy led the standing ovation! (Isn’t it lovely to have good friends!) And afterwards Harriet couldn’t believe she was sitting having a drink with Spike from Hi-de-Hi …. Some dreams do come true.
Yes, the BBC has to live within its means but if being a public service broadcaster is central to its mission The World Tonight is not the programme to cut. It takes a world view & intelligently & has been a nightly briefing for people like me since I discovered it at university.
I promised that I’d try to finish each day on here not with doom and gloom, but with beauty, so here’s my photo I took quite some time ago. A dinghy floating on the Thames at Strand on the Green, Chiswick, London. Floating in the clouds. And with that, I wish you all a lovely sleep and remember don’t have nightmares. Sleep tight.
And now I’m here at the Newman Arms pub in Fitzrovia for a Coca Cola. I told you about the Dog and Duck in Soho yesterday which George Orwell frequented and in which he celebrated the release of his book Animal Farm. Well, this was another of his favourite pubs and it was the basis for the proles pub in his other book called 1984. You may have heard of it.
I was in Fortnum and Mason’s yesterday, sipping my cup of tea in the restaurant, when the couple at the table next to me had their coffees brought to them. I couldn’t control my excitement and asked them if I could photograph their coffee. How perfect is this? A cup of coffee with a mini ice cream? I shall insist on a mini ice cream with every coffee I order whilst out from now on.
Good morning, The Two Ronnies never better than in the Mastermind Sketch from 1980.
Have a fantastic day.
*written by One Foot In The Grave creator David Renwick
@ActualBenMiller Hi Ben, congratulations on your new book. Currently helping a local primary school who are refurbishing their library. Would you be able to donate a copy of book or books? Hope to hear back. Have a great day
Good morning, have a great week, made in 1931 this is from One Good Turn.
*Filmed during the Great Depression Ollie & Hal Roach Studios distributed the logs used to deserving families to help heat their homes.