Today has been quietly busy, with the small boy around to entertain me. It’s a day of family birthdays - my son and my granddaughter - as well as the birthday of at least two other people I know. As the small boy and I discussed the fact that it is his older sister’s birthday, he solemnly told me that we should make her a cake. He then changed his mind and said we should make little buns (cupcakes) and that we should make them immediately. Which we did. None of them made their way to the birthday girl as when another of his sisters arrived after school between the two of them they polished off most of the cakes!
Out in the wider world yet another politician is being investigated for misconduct. On last night’s news politicians from Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrats spoke about how rife sexual harassment is across all parties in the Palace of Westminster. What a rather distasteful world we live in!
Less seriously, silly things that have been going on here and there.
An English tourist was filmed (of course, there’s always someone with a phone ready to catch you doing daft things) carving his and his girlfriend’s names into the stonework of the colosseum in Rome. He faces a fine of between €2,500 and €15,000 as well a prison sentence of two to five years. I bet he wishes he just took a selfie. In his defence his lawyer said: “The boy is the prototype of the foreigner who frivolously believes that anything is allowed in Italy, even the type of act which in their own countries would be severely punished.”
Personally I don’t consider a 26 year old as still a “boy” and I suspect that he would have done the same on the wall of old monuments on the UK. I’ve never felt the need to leave my name on the wall of a building. Nor have I ever felt inclined to secure a padlock to a bridge to demonstrate how strong my love is!
Then there’s Ant and Dec, two child actors who grew up to be a kind of corporate entity, supposedly very entertaining and amusing but in my opinion rather annoying. They were young stars in a children’s TV series set in the North East, Byker Grove. They now have a production company called Mitre Studios and plan to revive Byker Grove for modern times, set and filmed again in Newcastle. They said it would “help shine a spotlight on the north-east and the talent the region has to offer both in front of the camera and behind it.
Byker Grove will always be very special to us as the show which gave us our break, so we are beyond excited. We are looking forward to bringing this fresh incarnation to a whole new generation as well as those who remember it as fondly as we do.”
Good for them for putting money back into the area that helped them make it. Some joker has already said that it should reflect the modern era by not being called “Byker Grove” but “E-Byke Grove”.
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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