The song I have sent you this week is another from the Cheshire Cats album we talked about last week….which we made back in the day….this song is “The Battle Of New Orleans” and is one I produced for my great mate “Skiffle” John Lomax…..who sadly passed away some time ago….I put the instrumentation together on the record…. John was a member of The Atlantics Skiffle Group who were one of the first in the area…I saw them in 1958 which was the first time I heard an electric guitar….they appeared on “Top Town” and John went on to make films…one featuring the final plight of Donald Campbell which won him an award….this led to a feature by the BBC called “Days Which Changed The World”…in which they used John’s footage and had an actor playing him. In 2001 I put a skiffle group together with him and we went to Finland to perform at a huge convention…..I loved John dearly and miss him very much. I just don’t get why certain so called celebs think they can sing those Rat Pack standards…..Peter Andre has brought out an album with a collection of them…WHY?...his version of “Come Fly With Me” is as bad as it gets…. Robbie Williams brought one out a while back….if they insist on swing music why not get some original stuff….if I want to hear that sort of stuff I’ll listen to Sinatra and his gang….who do it properly. And any day now we will be bombarded with all the stale played out Christmas songs….Kylie has just made a Christmas album of all the songs we are sick of hearing…WHY?....do something ORIGINAL!! I don’t know who puts certain people in positions where they can make major decisions….the latest classic is to turn off the street lighting in certain villages to save money….and…wait for it…they can put the lights on again if the locals pay for it….wait for it….7 PENCE a day each. You couldn’t write this in a comedy show……HELLO…street lighting keeps areas safe doesn’t it?.......oh sorry I forgot…we have to send billions overseas to help other countries…..I despair. The new James Bond film has been heavily covered by the national news….as has Adele’s new record….National News???....I don’t think so…..incidentally Daniel Craig is from Hoylake which is just down the road from me….one of the lads I play golf with knows a lad who went to school with him….said he was a bit of a wimp in school and never did any sport etc….his mate is now a mechanic and Dan is James Bond….how’s that for poetic justice. ……It’s Halloween time and the shops are doing well….I just don’t get Halloween….it was just a bit of duck apple in my day….all this trick and treating is something we ahave aquired from the States…like high fives etc….then we have Bonfire night where loads of kids will get injured….can’t wee the point of fireworks….or am I Mr. Bah Humbug?

The song this week is a track I put together for a Cheshire Cats album back in the day….”Route 66” …which unfortunately I didn’t write but I came across it in a drawer….it is performed by a band we put together for our weekly jam sessions….it was a three piece me on guit…my lad Steve on bass and vocals…and a young fellow called Andy Thory on drums…Steve plays a mean bass …he was a good player and was great to work with…even though he’s the fruit of my loins…..he had his own band called The Black Knights….we sold the album for charity and was very popular at the time….happy days. 2.Last Wednesday was “Back To The Future Day” because in the film trilogy they travel to 21st October 2015…..I remember thinking at the time that on that day I will have been married 43 years…and here we are. The films were absolutely brilliant and dare I say it…ahead of their time….I have the box set and watch it all from time to time … it really is a classic….and it is very interesting how accurate some of the predictions were….great stuff. 3.We have yet to hear of the plight of the chap in Saudi Arabia who was jailed for making beer…he was due to receive 200 lashes last I heard….I know that the laws of countries have to be obeyed but this is going a bit over the top….these places seem to be living in the dark ages….also there was a girl on “The Apprentice” who said she was a sort of pole dancer in Saudi….now they want her deported….it is ridiculous….but they have the oil !!!....what we need to do is find our own sources of energy and backheel the lot of them. 4.There has been a lot of coverage on the news about the bobby who got hit by a stolen van….and sadly died….this happened just down the road from where I live. The driver and his accomplice had burgled an estate agent and the police were giving chase…the bobby threw a tyre stinger on to the road and the van swerved and hit him…needless to say the local community were devastated…he was only a young chap with a family…..the burglars have been caught and are awaiting trial….I have said it for years that there isn’t enough deterrent…they should get life sentences….but they wont. 5.Last week we mentioned the sad passing of Kenny Johnson of The Hillsiders country band….Billy Butler did a fabulous tribute to him on his programme….he played an interview he had done with Kenny and played short exerpts from his many recordings….what a great singer he was….and he has played on the Grand Old Opry in the states along with many big names….I feel Kenny was a true legend who sort of slipped under the radar. And Tom Jones has been on talking about his book….I bet that’s a good read….AND he is still with his wife who he married at 16…..Rock on Tommy !!!... ….and finally the nanny state strikes again….there is a suggestion that a tax should be put on sugar…because we are all obese….Jamie Oliver being one of the leading lights…the fact that it is assumed that people need help to not eat sugar is pathetic….I’m not quite sure who these consumer protectors think they are.

We spent a few days in Lichfield in the Midlands and went to The National Arboretum which is a huge remembrance park for the fallen in the wars …this is our second visit and I find it deeply moving….thousands and thousands of names on display….but I do wonder why…such a waste. It’s a very flat part of the country and you need a lesson from Lewis Hamilton before you take to the road…..horrendous. Bit of sad news….my mate Harry Prytherch sadly passed away this week…..he was a great guy and a good friend…he was the original drummer with The Remo Four who were very big during the Merseybeat era…he will be missed by all who knew him. Also we have lost Kenny Johnson who was the singer in The Hillsiders….for my money the best country band Liverpool has produced…all sad stuff. On a lighter note I watched an interview with Ed Sheeran on TV….I am a great admirer of this fella….he really talks sense and has formed his own record label which is what I did back in the day….the ingredient required is belief…..I always had total faith in my songs and after receiving rejections from know nothing publishers I went it alone and proved them all wrong….the secret is knowing where to place the material. I also enjoyed watching an interview with Charles Aznavour….who is now 91…and still touring….again total belief….he said he was slated when he started but just kept going…rock on Charlie!! I thought “She” was an absolute masterpiece of a song…..wonderful lyrics. There has been a big fuss about kid’s clothing not being fireproof…despite passing various tests….again this is nothing new…every year this rears it’s ugly head when Halloween arrives. It’s hardly rocket science…GET IT SORTED!!…before any more kids get burned….or is money more important than kiddies lives? And speaking of ugly heads I’m getting a bit sick of Dom Littlewood the consumer champion…..bursting in on so called “rogue traders” together with a couple of security bouncers and a film crew….obviously trying to make a name for himself…..just leave it to the professionals Dom……he HAS made a name for himself with me….but it’s unprintable. Apparently “The Voice” is to be dropped by the BBC….due to budget cuts….I can think of a hundred programmes worse than this one….at least you have people who can sing judging the contestants…as opposed to the X Factor with people with no talent judging those who think they have……..and finally we have just been informed that Piers Morgan is to join the ITV breakfast show….which is bad enough with all the presenters giggling and talking over each other…now Piers…heaven help us all.

The song I’ve sent you this week is taken from a DVD I made about our River….the inspiration came from the view I had down the River from an early morning ferry boat I had to catch to Liverpool…the sun rises up over the Liver Buildings and illuminates the Wirral side of the river…beautiful….you’ll be able to relate to this. There was a big build up here for the “Supermoon” at the start of the week….it was going to be bigger than usual…and red….and you will see the shadow of the earth on it etc….and it will be on view at 3 o’clock. in the morning….which put a bit of a damper on it all….I actually got up to have a look…I’m not sure why as I couldn’t really care less…so up I gazed into the heavens and saw the normal moon. Next day there were displays of wonderful photographs on TV of this great event…which wont happen again til 2033 !!!.....not quite sure where I went wrong. On the same subject they think they have found water on Mars….WOW it’s all happening….then they were talking about the manned mission which will take a year to get there…then you have to get back…is it me or is there actually a point to all this?....we never hear about how much this is all costing…and whatever happened to the thing which landed on that comet just as the batteries went flat? Perhaps I’ve got it all wrong but wouldn’t the money be better spent on sorting thing out on THIS planet?....what I would like to know is what are they going to do when they land on Mars?.... The Beatles original contract with Brian Epstein…all signed and sealed…has been sold at auction for about 300 grand…I think they were expecting 500 grand….words fail me. I have my doubts as to whether it’s an investment….but The Fab Four seem to be going on forever…I remember when McCartney’s autograph was worth 70 quid…which is why he would never sign one…in fairness he would pose for a photo with you. There is still a big 60’s fad over here although some of the “I was there legends” are looking a bit worse for wear….which brings me to Paul Jones who is soon on locally with his blues band. There is a picture in the paper of them…Jones doesn’t look too bad but his band look like they have been exhumed. I remember back in the day John Lennon said “when I heard Paul Jones singing ‘I’ve been a bad bad boy’ I was nearly sick…when I SAW him singing it I was sick”….then on Top of the Pops Paul was asked what he thought of the Beatles latest double A side (I think it was Day Tripper) he said “one side is absolute rubbish and the other is sort of O.K.”…..a short time after he was in Liverpool to sign his book….guess what NO-ONE showed up….shame. Donald Trump has been in the news this week regarding his building of a golf course in Scotland…..the locals are not happy….the billionaire said it would bring millions of pounds into the area…which it hasn’t and it would create a thousand jobs…..250 actually….and the Scots are NOT HAPPY!!.....their views have been spoilt etc….and one old lady has taken it to court…good luck with that one… and finally…..a “cold call” centre has been fined a couple of million for annoying people….their 2 o’clock in the morning robotic phone calls have not gone down too well….the company are appealing against the ruling…sorry guys not a chance…I am delighted to say.

I have just got back from a few days in Caernarfon and did some walking around Snowdonia…which reminded me of the song I have sent you….The Legend of Prince Madoc. It’s a gentle song performed by my mate Paul Damian….it tells the story of how the WELSH discovered America 300 years before Columbus. I composed and arranged it in an acoustic style which works well. Volkswagon have been filling the news over here with their “cheating” regarding the emissions….again it’s GREED. As far as I am concerned they are the most overrated car on the road…and I’ve had two of them…I once bought a brand new VW Golf….worst car I ever had…RUBBISH….there was allsorts wrong with it from indicators not working to the automatic choke cutting out every day….later I bought a VW Caddy van which I used for the group…again load of rubbish….the exhaust disconnected on the motorway…and the back door had to be opened from the inside….I went to the dealer who said the whole mechanism needs replacing…120 quid….when I checked it out it was down to a small spring on the handle which had worked loose (about 2p) clipped it back on and all was well…so I hope VW get a roasting…I would NEVER entertain another one. I have been watching the breakfast show on ITV….or should I call it “The girlie show”….there is Kate Garraway AND Susanna Reid side by side reading the news both giggling and talking over each other…then they have the main news read by Ranvia Singh then it’s over to Lorraine for her show…all rambling on about how sexy David Beckham is….not forgetting the weather girl…oh yes and not forgetting the occasional BLOKE…..ONE person could do the lot. Trouble is if you turn to the BBC all you get is how they are trying to find cures for all sorts of illnesses etc…..or moaning about the NHS. Somebody once said of Little and Large…..Eddie Large should lose 9 stone…Syd Little…. Then I thought of who I wouldn’t miss if they were removed from my screen….Alan Carr with his dreadful chattyman show with his squawking and stupid cocktail cabinet and his unfunny gay inuendo which we are all sick of….the panel and the backstage families on the X Factor wouldn’t be missed…and we don’t need JUDGES…let’s just see the acts….and I certainly wouldn’t miss ALL the soaps. What they should have is a channel to put all this garbage on…then those who want to watch it can sit there with there eyes fixed on the screen and nothing going on in their head….then I would know what to avoid. 4.Roger Moore is about to go on the road with a sort of chat show where he tells the audience about his many anecdotes….he seems a very modest sort of chap and I remember him way back in the day as Ivanhoe…wasn’t mad keen on his James Bond but then I am not a Bond fan…he sure looks good for 88!!....speaking of which Daniel Craig comes from Hoylake and a chap I play golf with knows a bloke who went to school with him…said he was a bit of a wimp in school….didn’t do bad though did he? 5.I watched a very interesting documentary on George Martin….what an incredible talented man….he mentioned that when The Beatles were about to do their last album Lennon said to him “we don’t want any of your rubbish on it”…meaning orchestration….he seemed quite hurt…also Lennon was featured on another programme when he did that sick “clap your hands or stamp your feet” thing on stage supposedly mimicking the disabled….not funny….George Martin MADE the Beatles…..just about sums John Lennon up….I was never a fan.

… it’s all been happening this week….with the song I have sent you.I got a mail from 41 WMGT which is an American TV channel in Georgia asking if they could use my song and some of my YouTube clip for a news item on their channel. This came about after Liam Dutton did a weather forecast on the BBC and mentioned the village name faultlessly…and went viral. ...I gave them my blessing and they sent me the finished job which is brilliant…..since then I have had about 300 thousand hits on the YouTube clip …taking the total to well over half a million….and I have been flooded with new subscribers to my channel. This song just will not go away….I always said it was timeless. I watched a programme about TV in the 70s….and how UNBELIEVABLE things were said back then….how RACIST and SEXIST everything was. I find it hard to believe how far we have come BACKWARDS…..this was COMEDY and it was funny…very little was intended to be offensive…but of course someone is ALWAYS offended…and it always seems to be women…and I mean this in the nicest way…..unlike back then you can’t look at a womans cleveage…(which is on full display over a low cut dress)…without being a pervert…or make a comment without being regarded as SEXIST….but it seems O.K. for “Loose Women” to say what they like on daytime TV….not to mention twerking all over the place leaving very little to the imagination on pop videos….and there’s only one reason they do it…. Women are wonderful but they are not blokes…and it’s as if we have to apologise for that….99.9% of ladies have no problem…it’s just the odd few. Daley Tompson recently came under fire for saying that the girl who lost in the javelin in the world championships “threw like a girl”…OH!! how dare he say that…the fact that he added “instead of an athlete” was totally overlooked….it’s 2015 and I think you should get over yourselves girls and enjoy life….and perhaps leave the football and cricket to the blokes….oh sorry this is NOT the 70s…can’t say that. I watched Piers Morgan interview Lionel Richie about his life…purely because I like Lionel Richie…I don’t know how Piers gets away with it…if he’s not asking unnecessary personal questions he is howling laughing at nothing…maybe it’s me but I’d love to see someone punch him in the mouth…OOPS can’t say that…this isn’t the 70s. I do like Lionel Richie though….big talent and a nice guy. Another strange thing is the bloke who wanders up and down the country naked…known as the naked rambler….he has served a total of 10 years in jail over time….I just don’t get this at all…a mass murderer wouldn’t get much more….it’s as if he is giving away a great secret showing his parts…if anyone doesn’t know what they look like (and they are all the same) should go back to the planet they came from. I fail to see what harm he is doing and those holier than thou lot need to get a life….there is nothing more natural….10 years…very strange….very sad….they will be putting trousers on dogs next. His jail time has also cost the taxpayer a million quid…so we are told. The politicians are STILL fiddling their expenses after all the publicity…these are running the country…it really is pathetic and we now have Labour getting a new leader….blaming everything for their dismal performance in the last election….the answer is simple…Ed Miliband…simple as that…nice fella but zero charisma and a bit of a prat….politics is showbiz…the sooner they realise that the better….and to round off…I was watching Mathew Wright while I was away and he had a section of his show discussing the shortening of names…I always shorten names because it is a friendly gesture but Mr. Wright insists on being called MATHEW and not MAT !!.......

The song this week is one from the dim and distant past….it’s a tribute to The Royal Iris which graced the Mersey for many years….it was affectionately known as “the fish and chip boat” as there were many functions held on board where fish and chips were top of the bill…my band played on it on several occasions and on it’s last day of service I went down to Seacombe Ferry where it was moored and made a video…as I was the only one there I am the only one with footage of its last day…it is now rotting away down south somewhere….but it played a major part in the River’s history. Just when I thought television couldn’t get any worse I was unfortunate enough to watch the X-Factor under the misapprehension that it would have a new format…WRONG!!!...it was the same old drivel with the same old sob stories (which have no bearing on the act) with a gaggle of judges headed by Simon Cowell playing God…..with the contrived looks of surprise when someone delivers a reasonable performance which they MUST have seen in rehearsals….all that is required is to see the acts…we don’t need the camera,cutting to grandma and the whole family backstage every time their little darling hits a high note. There was a young guy on who was dedicating his song to a lost friend….with Cowell brushing away an imaginary tear…showing he does have a heart after all……..pass me the bucket…I need to throw up!!! It’s a big fat NO from me. I’ve just thought of a way to make an extra £300 a day….become an MP…build a moat….claim expenses for having it cleaned which guarantees you a seat in the House of Lords…job done…then all I have to do is make an appearance get my 300 nicker and do a U-Turn and go back home….to my moat. You couldn’t write this stuff….while they are building fences to keep out the immigrants they should build a 50 foot brick wall between us and the politicians….because we would get more sense talking to that. I think the government should have volunteered for this Mars project because they would fit in better up there than here. I have a good friend who is Indian and he tells me about the traffic in his country and there are 370 odd people killed on the roads EVERY DAY….this is more than those killed by terrorism or even wars….and this is a world problem…I’ve said for years that the police need to get a grip on this….but then we get the “lack of money” chestnut….I cannot see why cameras can’t be erected everywhere….with just a random selection working at any one time….THAT would slow the idiots down…AND it would make a fortune in fines…. Which links to the bus lane situation in Manchester….they have made 7 million pounds in fines over the last 5 years….2 million this year alone….of course this has caused an uproar…the answer is simple … don’t go into the bus lanes…the Liverpool Council have ceased the practice…maybe they should rethink. One of my pate hates from the past was The Monkees…I couldn’t stand those awful episodes where they were all trying to be funny…and failing…however I did like the songs because they had the help of REAL musicians….NOW they are over here (or two of them) to do a reunion tour….Peter Tork and Micky Dolenz have announced they are going to do some stadium gigs….they were on breakfast TV looking a bit worse for wear with Micky Dolenz still trying to be funny….not good….why do these so called pop stars have to try and be zany?...especially when they are dinosaurs….they are obviously short of a few bob….mind you the show should finish early so the audience can get back to the old folks home…..do me a favour lads…time to call it a day methinks.

The song I have sent you this week is one that failed to make the classical music charts which it should have done. It came about after Radio City’s Norman Thomas told his listeners how he went out to buy a dibber…which is a garden tool used for manually boring holes in the ground to plant seeds in….so Norm buys what he thinks is a dibber only to get home and find he’s bought a handle off a shovel….he took a lot of stick over this so I came up with The Dibber Song and sent it to him….he played it every day for about a fortnight. On one occasion he was interviewing Cilla about her forthcoming panto and played this song to her and got her to join in on the chorus….but sadly never put it on any of her albums…….I wonder why. We have a new golden girl….the wonderful Jessica Ennis is world champion again….she is a great role model for sport which,as we discussed recently,is about WINNING. Let’s hope a good proportion of our youth switch off their computers and iPhones and get out there…..then perhaps they’ll stop moaning about being bullied on line….and hats off to Usain Bolt who did it again …just as well because if the other guy had won we would never have heard the end of it….all good stuff….better not mention the final test match. 3.The BBC are “sacking” the Met office who have been supplying them with weather predictions for years….it’s about time too…the forecasts can be very iffy….I use the weather channel on the phone and it is very accurate…so why don’t the Beeb use this instead…….the local forecast has been atrocious and Diane Oxberry comes on next day and makes a joke of it….”oooh we got it wrong yesterday hee hee” which is all very well but a lot of people depend on the forecast and base their day on it…..so with a bit of luck we might start getting decent forecasts from the Beeb for a change. 4.There has been huge news coverage of the plane crash at the display in West Sussex….again a terrible tragedy…these things seem to be happening a bit too much lately. The fact that passers by lose their lives makes it worse. How unlucky can you be to be hit by a plane whilst travelling on the main road…..I think this needs to be thought about a lot more…..the Red Arrows give a display every year in a local place called Hoylake…but they do it over the sea for this reason…maybe this practice should be adopted by everyone….the “experts” have been saying that there has been no public fatalities since 1952…which they seem to think makes it all O.K…..ONE loss of life is one too many…nothing is worth that…..anyway it looks like things will change. 5.I’ve lost a lot of sleep lately since hearing the news that One Direction are splitting up….Oh My!!...there has been a lot of tears…mainly from their management and record company…oh yes and from the teeny boppers. I’ve never felt this bad since The Dooleys split up !!!....Harry Stiles?...that’s the only name I know…and they have sold 50 million records….it’s a sad time for us all…I’m sure the immigrants who are running for their lives will be very upset about it. They all sound the same to me…but then again I am 60 years outside the age range. I don’t know why they call these guys BANDS…they are a vocal group…a BAND plays instruments…like McFly….who are good….and have a bit of talent.

The song I have sent you this week is called “The Colour of Time”…and it was one of my rare collaborations…a friend of mine called Patricia Knapton came up with the title…I composed the music and we both worked on the lyrics. I really like this song and it has a nice twist at the end….I produced this back in the 90s but I am thinking of re-vamping it…I have a few ideas for it. .E cigarettes have hit the news….because they are 75% safer than ordinary ciggies (according to research…probably by the makers of E cigarettes)…it has been suggested that they go on prescription from the NHS….which is struggling by the way….what a load of tripe!!!...who comes up with these brainwaves?....”Oh…it will help people stop smoking”….smokers will save money buying these things…so why don’t THEY invest THAT…instead of ME paying for their filthy habit?...whichever way they go you can guarantee the cigarette companies wont lose money. Bullying has reared its ugly head with kids in school being made very unhappy…Boo Hoo…perhaps if they get off the internet for 5 minutes and get out and play they might find the problem is solved. They are coming up with allsorts of reasons why they are bullied….but we never hear the other side of the story…..or see the parents. What these politicians don’t seem to comprehend is you cannot legislate for stupid morons who have yet to evolve….there will always be bullies…there always has been … but they are a minority…a brainless minority. Strictly Come Dancing is coming back soon…I must say I do enjoy it….with celebs and wonderfully sculpted ladies gliding around a dancefloor what is there for the dads not to like. One of the celebs will be Carol Kirkwood the weather girl who is great….so I’m looking forward to a bit of decent telly for a change…..and no more Brucie…it gets better all the time!! Last week they had a programme looking back at the history of Saturday night TV….there were some really good programmes back then…where did they all go? Morecambe and Wise….Game for a Laugh…Candid Camera…..etc. Britain’s Got Talent has come under fire because the woman and her dog who won it CHEATED!!!....she had TWO DOGS!!!...what is the world coming to…she’ll be taking drugs next and entering the next Olympics. And all those viewers who voted for her are going to get a refund….it’s like a comedy sketch….anyone who sits in front of a TV and wastes money on a phone call to make someone else famous needs serious help.…but there you are…there is no hope. 5.There was a programme celebrating the music of Frank Sinatra with various celebs singing his songs…I know the guy was enormously popular…and I know he was world famous…and I know hw sold millions of records…but I just didn’t get him…never did….I liked Bing and Perry Como and Danny Kaye…great crooners…but I always found Sinatra to have a “dry” voice and in his later years was a bit out of tune. He did nothing for me I’m afraid…but I like the songs and have sung many of them myself with my band…..and I’m sure if Frank was still here he wouldn’t care less what I thought........Come to think of it I never got Johnny Cash either…but there you are.

The song I have sent you this week was one I came up with for Radio City’s Norman Thomas back in the day….the one note song. It came about when someone told me they couldn’t sing a note…so I disagreed and that sparked off this song…as EVERYONE can sing one note…anywhere…you could go into a pub in China and everyone could sing one note…there are no language barriers or key problems….as the song explains. Maybe I was a bit ahead of my time….it did however make the local papers. 2.This has reminded me of the guy at every wedding (usually Uncle Harry) who always wants to get up and give ‘em a song at the end of the night with the full support of his family…the song is generally “Spanish Eyes” which he warbles through singing the same note….and invariably goes down better than the band….who are frowned at by the bloke paying them wondering why they are getting paid and uncle Harry sang for nothing….the fact that the band have just done 3 hours and built the crowd up to the drunken crescendo they are in and Uncle Harry has sung the same note for 2 minutes….is somehow overlooked….it’s a dream come true Simon. 3..I’m sure the victims of financial cuts are delighted to hear that Prince Andrew has just bought Fergie a 5 million pound chateau in Switzerland…..or should I say WE have bought it?...nice to know he is so generous…and there has been a disaster at Sandringham Palace!!…..the poor pigeons are devastated because their loft is rotting away….but you’ll be pleased to know the Queen has come to the rescue and had them a new one built for 40 grand…. Her pigeons are reported to be delighted….and unseen photographs taken by lord Lichfield of Charles and Diana’s wedding are about to go on sale in New York….and expected to fetch millions….hip hip hurrah!!!.....I’m so pleased for them all. 4.When I listen to the various dialects in this country I begin to despair….what happened to the English language….”T” seems to have vanished as youngsters now go to a par-y on sa-aday…or “I like i-“…and we have those dreadful Eastenders so called actors who replace “T” with “F”…I FINK I’ll do this and FINK I’ll do that and has anyone seen Kaffy…then we have Coronation Street with “we’re goin’ t’ shops”….it’s awful and it’s not difficult to pronounce words correctly….as we do on Merseyside….or maybe I’m a bit biased? 5.And on the subject of television….we have definitely hit an all time low….maybe it’s me…I don’t know….but is ANYONE interested in embarrassing bodies?...people being brought into A & E?...third class actors being “killed off” in soaps?...and now we have a plethora of “happy family” shows where ordinary members of families can win holidays….with one of them trying to be funny…why should I care if someone I don’t know wins a holiday?...I though we had seen the last of these dreadful cheap to make shows with the retirement of Bruce Forsyth....it’s bad enough when celebs are involved but at least the money goes to charity. If someone comes up with an alternative to television (and they probably will) they will clean up….sooner the better.