Ava Gardner's 90th Birthday

This Christmas Eve would have been Ava Gardner's 90th birthday. Of course, she was never going to make it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2hy6fyheIA

Dear Spammers Part II

A spammer  tried to comment on my last post with a link to some commercil site! I am undecided whether it was a serendipity or a deliberate piece of cheek. Either way, quite funny. Still, spammers are not encouraged.

Dear Spammers

This is not, in any sense, a commercial site. It has a small readership and spamming here is pointless for that reason alone; as well as the fact that all comments are moderated and spammers are - well - spammed.

Great British Adventurers

Apparently, it will be published on 20th September...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-British-Adventurers-Nicholas-Storey/dp/1844681300/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347731790&sr=8-1

Sorry, Rog, You're Up The Creek

So Roger Moore jumps on the populist bandwaggon to promote his book Bond on Bond and pronounces that Daniel Craig is the best Bond yet. I would say that I don't understand it - but I do - he says it almost certainly because he thinks that this is what people want to hear. I dare say that Craig is a good actor but he looks like a bare-knuckle fighter who has had his ears boxed once too often and he lacks any dash at all in his grossly over-developed frame, which is dressed in the dullest clothes which Wardrobe could find. Quantum of Solace is actually rather a dull short story in which James Bond is simply the audience to the story of a faithless wife's downfall and the film's plot is nearly opaque. Further films will lack any original Fleming link at all apart from the regular character's names. I still remember the thrill of the first Bond film that I saw on the big screen - Goldfinger - in the dear old St Austell Odeon (now smashed down) and I just don't think that Craig can do quite the same  for the current generation of youngsters but then again, I don't think that the current generation wants more than action and violence at the level that it is now being presented - and they certainly have to do without humour.

Lesotho

When we feel down on our luck, we need to pause and think:

http://chikashimiyamoto.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/about-lesotho-part-2-the-crisis/

Thank Goodness for That

I was shocked and appalled to read that The Dandy comic was closing production. It is not: it is going online instead of in print; although the annual will still be printed. My sister and I always had The Dandy and The Beano and the world would be the poorer without them.