The success of ITV drama series Nolly, featuring Helena Bonham Carter, above, as Noele Gordon, star of the much derided soap Crossroads, has prompted veteran broadcaster David “Diddy” Hamilton to recall when he was an announcer on Thames TV. Diddy – now 84 and still presenting shows on Boom Radio each week – says: “One day I was introducing Crossroads and I delivered the line I had been given: ‘Tonight an actor arrives at the Crossroads motel’. Seeing I had a few seconds left, I added, ‘And not before time!’
“A few minutes later Noele Gordon phoned me in the studio. ‘David,’ she said, ‘I’m very upset at what you said about my programme.’ ‘Noele’, I replied. ‘It’s what everyone says.’ She hung up the phone, unconvinced.”
I’m convinced this is the next big binge night thing. Acknowledgments to the Telegraph, Helena Bonham-Carter, and Achille Serre Dry Cleaners, Five Ways, Birmingham.
It takes two to shift this. “This” is a cider mill apple squashing/squishing/juice squeezing wheel.…
Nothing beats an early morning stroll around the garden. https://youtube.com/shorts/jE2BieGdtv4?si=k9thYfmJsd2nue3e
In the wild flower meadow nature has collapsed the daffodils overnight. Slowly, imperceptibly, the daffs…
A Sunday look at the (new) polytunnel. https://youtu.be/X6p4vtDWKS0?si=pYT71mJdimF9mMng
Arguably, the spelling could be correct as it was here last week, and it’s still…