Eagles & albatrosses! Butterflies & bandages! David Hockney & Derek Jarman! Andy Warhol & Oscar Wilde! Marc Bolan & Marc Almond! Lionel Bart & Leonard Rossiter! Transit vans & Tibetan Buddhism! Oh, and plenty of David Bowie too. Join me in Cranleigh on 15th May. Tickets here: tinyurl.com/45w2x75b
Voters have just today left to register to vote for the local elections taking place across England on 7 May. Anyone who wants to take part must register before 11.59pm tonight.
Registering takes minutes at gov.uk/register-to-vote. Just need name, address & National Insurance number. Pass it on.
Delighted and honoured to be a part of this year’s Cranleigh Arts BookFest in Surrey. I’m giving a talk and Q&A on 15th May about David Bowie, Lindsay Kemp and the birth of Ziggy Stardust. Click here to book tickets: cranleigharts.org/event/david-bowie-lindsay-kemp-and-the-birth-of-ziggy-stardust
The tension levels rise as Apollo 13 begins its re-entry.
On this day in 1970, Apollo 13 was scheduled to splash down. As the minutes ticked down, James Burke was on hand to summarise the mission to date.
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And here!
Wish you were here!
When we are back I send some photos for you and I am taking my Dalek husband Dan Barratt
We are going for the centenary celebrations this weekend as the opened 100 year ago... we have been staying here over 30 years now and for the first time we have managed to get the Watch House on the edge of the cliff... xx
I will be in Portmeirion this Friday.. yay x
Portmeirion beach at low tide today. The sand goes to the horizon. Rory and Ellis are running towards the camera and a very big (and responsibility tethered) weather balloon looks up.
My boys took Rover for a walk on the beach in Portmeirion today.
Thank you Mark x
Thank you Jenny xxxx
I feel I’ve been waiting all my life to be commissioned to write this feature about Space:1999 for today’s Telegraph.. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/c7afbc1...
The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit.
Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday
Morning re-quote for this. Seriously one of the best things I have seen on the internet.
Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey:
"Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".
Thanks Jenny xxxx
Extraordinary that in these fractious & divided times, so many of us can unite around the single, simple fact that Matthew Goodwin is an irredeemable twat.
NEW PODCAST EPISODE
Rob Francis tells the quietly dramatic story of how Westward Television lost its place on the ITV map and slowly, and almost gently, became Television South West.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cic...
Monday is the last day to get your agent to submit your details. We've had literally hundreds of applicants so far, including one from an 80-year-old! Please be able to sound convincingly like a teenager: we need good RP for Bond and good (ideally native) Scottish for Wilder.
Just listen to what Andrew’s nickname was amongst royal protection officers.
It is now absolutely time to expel Mandelson from the Lords and the Labour party.
SERIOUS QUESTIONS ABOUT FARAGE THAT NEED ANSWERS
Farage is all about the money, money, money!
#NeverVoteReform
The Conservative Party has defected to Reform.
