It’s that time of year when people lose track of what day it is. So we’ve had Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, The Day After Boxing Day, then a couple of nameless days - officially Sunday and Monday. Today New Year’s Eve Eve, tomorrow is New Year’s Eve, and then we have New Year’s Day. After that we can revert to ordinary days of ghe week! What a relief!
I think my milkman got mixed up as well for yesterday he failed to leave me a bottle of milk. Fortunately I had enough in the fridge as I was in no fit state to go and replenish supplies from the local co-op store.
Surviving on Lemsip and sleep seems to have been working though - still coughing but rather less lethargic that I have been for days. I might venture out into the world later.
It’s also New Year’s Honours announcement time. Idris Elba is about to become Sir Idris Elba - not just for being a good actor but for his contribution to society. Torvill and Dean also be come a Dame and a Knight - it seems to have taken them a long time to achieve that honour. It was 1984 when they danced on ice to Ravel’s Bolero!
In the study I found a bag containing a dressing gown I bought as a Christmas gift for Granddaughter Number One. What was it doing there? Talking to her mother yesterday I discovered that she believed that its fluffiness had triggered an asthma attack she had on Christmas Day. Not wanting to offend me by rejecting the gift, she put it out of sight, presumably hoping a black hole might swallow it. Goodness! Now I need to decide what to do with it. Here’s a link to an article about what people have done with unwanted gifts! It’s quite easyntomoffend people by giving their gifts to charity shops.
And here’s a letter written by Quentin Falk, someone I had never heard of. I googled him and found this: he has been a show-business journalist for numerous national papers for over 40 years.He has written nine books, including biographies of Anthony Hopkins, Albert Finney and Alfred Hitchcock. Somit’s appropriate he should write about Brigitte Bardon, I suppose:
Letter: Brigitte Bardot obituary
Mon 29 Dec 2025
“A year before her breakout role as an international sex symbol in And God Created Woman (1956), Brigitte Bardot made a rare trip to Britain to co-star with Dirk Bogarde in the second of the “Doctor” comedy film series, Doctor at Sea. She played a cabaret performer stranded on a cargo ship who is first discovered by Bogarde, as Dr Simon Sparrow, taking a shower.
As I recounted in my 1987 book, The Golden Gong, filming was, with characteristic British modesty, to take place from the other side of the shower curtain, with Bardot’s body covered. However, as the producer Betty Box explained to me, the camera was able to pick out the outline of the garments which, frankly, looked foolish.
Bardot came to the rescue. She stripped off before an agog crew. Word whizzed round Pinewood Studios and often the sound stage was bulging at the seams.
Box would later recall in her own memoir that Bardot was “a joy to work with” and that her “fractured English charmed everyone”.
There you go.
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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