There has been endless coverage of the Queen lying in state
with thousands and thousands of her loyal subjects queuing
fo up to 24 hours to pass the coffin and show their respects
showing how respected she was.....a wonderful lady
.......and David Beckham has been praised for joining the line
with everyone else instead of using his celebrity to jump the
queue.....unlike Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby who
have taken some stick.
Football has returned after being cancelled out of respect....
which is a good thing unless you support Leicester.
One of the satellite channels has started showing old Benny
Hill shows.....they haven't aged well....I used to find him funny
back in the day but not now.....the sexism is totally over the
top....not that I am bothered about that....but it just isn't funny
any more...sorry Benny.
Out of interest I watched a film on TV about Laurel and
Hardy....called "Stan and Ollie" which covered the later years
of the duo when they went on the road.....Stan being played
by Steve Coogan and Ollie by John Reilly.......normally these
sort of films don't quite get the characters right....however this
was brilliant ...within minutes you thought you were watching
the real stars....great film.
Back in the day I was a huge fan of The Beach Boys....I loved
their harmonies and great surfing songs.....and bought all
their albums until they lost there way....in my opinion...with
"Pet Sounds"...so I watched a concert on TV featuring Brian
Wilson and a large band singing his hits.....it started well with
some of his early hits like California Girls and Help Me
Rhonda....then he goes into his later stuff so it was time to
switch off.....I would like to feature as this week's record one
of their early hits to remind us how good they were when the
surf was up and we all had "Fun Fun Fun"