If Andrew Thingummy
is innocent of all wrongdoing, why doesn’t he arrange to see both the British and US authorities, attended by a lawyer, and answer questions? This is known as “helping the police with their enquiries” and would go down well in support of the House of Windsor and the rest of us. Those who give a damn. * I just don’t get it (see title).
So – barely two days of heat – and it is already a problem and not a pleasure: I know that it can be tough for this, that and the other group and many elderly people (me) – but this infernal desire to miserable-ise sets the teeth on edge.
Not everything is a problem,
the world is not against most of us, and almost everybody I know – regardless of gender, sex, education, personality and experience – is pretty good at dealing with stuff that even might not be entirely favourable ? Stop whining. IJDGI.
This train of thought all started because I saw a woman in Kings Road whose looks I admired, told her so and (she’s Irish) we commenced to talk. And she was the first person new to me who said spontaneously that she couldn’t stand Chelsea Flower Show. Her reasons were very similar to my own – the hooha, crowds of people with their phones out, taking pictures rather than looking at anything, all local businesses not making extra, completely screwed till it’s over,
and more bad shorts in one place than you have ever seen.
If the Chelsea Flower Show is really so important – the British being now rather more a nation of gardeners rather than shopkeepers – why doesn’t it charge at the gate for the Royal Horticultural Society – RHS box £1 per head (as in flowers )– and stop pretending to trendy with drag queens and sex toys ? Oh – that’s what you do in your garden … to each to his own.
As ITV3 is rapidly becoming Midsummer Murders TV,
could we set a date to run the whole series from Nettles start to finish (series 13, ep 8) through Neil Dudgeon in sequence ? Apart from patronizing us into the ground (“oh they’ll watch anything”) it’s irritating and very shortsighted, guaranteed not to improve customer relations. IJDGI
Couldn’t we have a series on WHY people want to watch torture, rape, murder, cruelty to children, cruelty to animals ? It’s mostly a cuttings job ie extracts from other programmes, it needs a good presenter who can be both serious and amiable, not necessarily at the same time, and as such, wouldn’t cost the earth, especially if you reserved the right to name all the successful series who wouldn’t contribute without a fee ?
The idea for IJDGI came from Giles Coren,
talented son of talented father (Alan) for whom I worked at the long defunct Punch magazine in one of the bonuses of my professional and personal life. “Oh” said a colleague uncomfortably. “ Aren’t they all men ?” They were and they were terrific – amusing and agreeable, talented, not a wrong move.
Which brings me to GC asking whether a swan can really break a man’s arm with its wing ? and I was transported back to Albert Park in Middlesbrough (I was about 6) with my mother when I saw my first male swan with his wings outstretched.
He was so beautiful that I went forward – I wanted to touch him – till my mother very gently called me away and echoed this piece of folk wisdom, so often repeated we think it is true. But this is an I Do Get It because (according to the British Wildlife Magazine) it’s an image of the strength of the swan. Not a reality. Or at least not a documented one.
If I read another article about somebody who had a horrid home or difficulties on the way, I will refer them to the designer Alice Temperley(“I’ve had my breakdowns over the years but I have kept them private”) and a number of musicians and performers interviewed recently who have hinted at accepting who you are (not Mick Jagger) and enjoying life all the more for knowing it. Context – written or spoken – is key.
Annalog 