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Everybody is Somebody's Fool - Connie Francis (it was the first #1 hit by Connie Francis AND it was the first #1 hit in the U.S. by a female singer)

cheese toastie in left

Fool if you think it's over - Chris Rea/Elkie Brooks

There've been some pretty bad TV versions too! Not sure about the casting for the latest film version - Margot Robbie - too blonde and too pretty! Will be interesting to see the reviews for this one.

How are you faring, Muggle? Still looks bad over there. You must still have power though?

Fool's Overture ~ Supertramp ( don't think that'll be one you're thinking of 😊)

Poor Little Fool - Ricky Nelson ( Does anyone have another song with fool in the title - cause I have another one I would like to post ) 😇

admittedly i bumped it to the top of my tbr list because the trailer for the new movie looked hot (which feels hilarious after reading it) but too many A+ filmmakers have taken a stab at it for them all to be bad.

Ship of Fools - Erasure

A word of warning, some of the film versions are truly awful! Not sure what the new one will be like.

Phew!

Adrian still has a chesty cough, but otherwise he is fine. He is at nursery today. Thanks. I don't think Adrian needs one now, but I might get one in case there is a next time.

pipe at the ready,

On The Good Ship Lollipop ~ Shirley Temple

Death In Ambush by Susan Gilruth and listening to the audiobook Our Hearts Were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough, which is very funny.

#3. Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë, 1847) Wow this is not what the collective consciousness has led me to believe it is. Like, yeah the tragic romance and passion are in there but you don't even really get to see it and its much more about the after effects of said unrequited love. The passionate love is mostly inferred while the passionate vengeance is laid bare. Either way this rocks. I didn't think I'd be this into a book where all the characters are this unlikeable but even so I cried reading Cathy and Heathcliff's last moment together. Its such an interesting situation where this love just ruins everyone involved's life and threatens to continue doing so for the next generation and I loved seeing how these character's grow and change throughout their lives and all the different lingering effects they have on each other. Despite being as short as it is it felt like an epic and the ending, while intentionally rather quiet, hits perfectly. Thoroughly loved this and I'm weirdly excited to see some of the film adaptations given how much of Cathy and Heathcliff's relationship is left unsaid in the novel. 9/10

Good Days Sunshine - The Beatles

I love those big cathedrals, never been to Lincoln though.

Finished Dr. Jekyll and now onto Tehanu, Ursula le Guin (Earthsea 4)

Madeleine: the Cathedral is spectacular!

I would love to see those murals! Sounds like no one thought it through when they chose him to be the artist. I've heard the cathedral is spectacular.

France: yes she was a fascinating character and I enjoyed the biography. The Duncan Grant Murals in Lincoln Cathedral by Edward Mayor In 1952 an advertisement in The Times requested proposals for murals for thirty significant religious buildings. Duncan Grant put his name forward. He was a notorious member of the Bloomsbury Group and was unrepentantly bisexual. So it was perhaps a surprise that he was chosen to create the mural for Lincoln Cathedral which was to go into the Russell Chantry. It was to be focussed around St Blaise, the patron saint of the wool industry. Lincoln was a centre of the wool industry in medieval times and was an inland port. It was also a collection and taxation point. Work began in 1956. On one wall there is a depiction of dock workers moving bales of wool onto a boat with Lincoln and the Cathedral in the background. The dock workers are all pretty muscular and not wearing a great deal. The opposite wall caused some controversy as well. It was of Jesus as the good shepherd, surrounded by Sheep and carrying one around his neck. Some have been shorn, some still had wool. Grant had portrayed Jesus once before in a church; at that time he had been asked if he could make the Jesus figure more “spiritual” and less “physical”. The Jesus depicted in the mural has no beard and is bare chested, a distinctly good looking physical specimen. Grant used people he knew as models. Vanessa Bell and Angelica Garnett are in the Murals. The Jesus figure is Paul Roche, a friend of Grant’s. The murals are a great work of art and well worth a visit. Looking at them there is no getting away from the fact that they are well …painted by a gay man. This also seems to have occurred to the Cathedral authorities because the Russell Chantry quickly became a storage room and broom cupboard. The murals were pretty much unseen until the early 1990s when they were restored and opened to the public again. Even today if you take the official guided tour you aren’t shown the murals. However they are worth a visit and the local Usher gallery has a number of the preliminary sketches that Grant did. 9 out of 10 Starting The Long Affray by Harry Hopkins

How is Adrian faring now?

reveries of Dostoyevsky tomes,

peaceful nights, slipper clad