Yes, Friends, did YOU see the news about that bearded doctor in that soap and the shampoo woman from the advert, in this morning's Onion News? If not, bet you heard other people discussing it - tongues are wagging round here today, that's for sure!!!
And if you missed it, catch the story here, in Yours Truly's lightly-edited version - see below!!!!
And for me and my wife Lois here in leafy, semi-rural Liphook, Hampshire, it brings a bit of a knowing smile to our faces, I can tell you! "Soap" meets "shampoo" (geddit!!!!) - surely a match made in heaven, or in the bathroom, whatever !!!!!
my wife Lois and me - recent pictures
And for Lois and me this morning, it's nice to see that "that bearded guy" is still sporting his trademark beard. Without it, he'd be totally unrecognisable, that's for sure!!!
But are beards beginning to go out of fashion? In pictures flashed through to us this morning from Germany, where our daughter Alison, husband Edward and two of their 3 teenage kids are enjoying the Christmas markets, we noticed that Edward's beard is now only a "5 o'clock shadow of its former self"(!).
And where's the moustache gone, Edward?
Was it "seized by German Customs", another casualty of Brexit perhaps?
I think we should be told, don't you!!!!
(left) the scene in Germany today, as our daughter Alison, husband Edward and 2 of their
teenage kids, Isaac and Rosalind, enjoy the Christmas markets, and (right)
flashback to September: Edward, seen here in happier times, lightly bearded and mustachio'd,
as he and Alison settle daughter Josie in at Durham University, where she'll be studying maths
our grandson Isaac (15), vocalist, with his boy-girl group New Horizon
But story number one is, without doubt the news that my little sister Jill's daughter - my niece Lucy, who, like Edward, is "something of a lawyer" - has got engaged this weekend and we wish her all the best. Also our daughter Sarah in Perth, Australia, who's simultaneously doing two accountancy jobs - one in Perth and the other in Evesham UK (working online), is also managing to keep her 12-year-old twins Lily and Jessica busy this weekend, baking Christmas cookies and taking them, with husband Francis, to see the local firework display, in temperatures in the 80s F (mid-30s C), would you believe!
What a crazy planet we live on !!!!!
(top) Lois and me talking on zoom to our daughter Sarah and twin granddaughters
Lily and Jessica, in Perth, Australia, this morning, and (below) pictures Sarah sends
us of the family going out to see the pre-Christmas firework display, positioning
themselves on the lawns close to the "firework truck"
The twins tell us that next week at school will be the big Christmas concert, where the kids will be singing some amusing Aussie versions of traditional northern hemisphere Anglo-American Christmas songs.
"Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly", for example, which they'll be singing, becomes, in it's Aussie version, "Deck the Sheds with Bits of Wattle". They don't seem to have holly down there in Australia - what madness, isn't it !!!!
But first, here are a few clues to help you understand some of the lingo...you'll just have to guess the rest for yourselves!!!!
Grahame is still smarting from the fact that the BBC refused to pay for his recent dental work, but they have opened their wallets lavishly for TV's Alice Roberts, which is a bit of a sore point with Grahame, and I'm not talking teeth here !!!!
(left) flashback to August where respected archaeologist Grahame takes a group of meeting-members around Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester): the BBC famously refused to pay for Grahame's dental work,Grahame says, although they paid for rival archaeologist Prof Alice Roberts (right) to get her teeth done , Grahame says - see her lovely smile-to-camera, as she digs up a Roman villa at Kettering!
We don't see Grahame at the meeting this morning, however - but we'll see him on Friday. He's bound to be with us then, at the meeting's Christmas lunch at Woodie's, where members are confidently saying today that he'll be telling us all about his Egypt trip, highlighting in particular "all the things that went wrong" - but that's just our Grahame, bless him! And it's bound to be entertaining and highly amusing, so watch this space!!! [I can't wait! - Ed]
the scene at the Sunday Morning Meeting, as members try to keep warm
discussing archaeologist Grahame's non-appearance after his return to the UK
today following his 3 weeks in Egypt, and (right) me trying to keep warm
by sitting next to a radiator - brrrrr!!!!!
What a crazy world we live in !!!!
21:00 We go to bed on a re-run of the 1970's TV series "Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club", which attempted to re-create the atmosphere of a typical working men's club somewhere in the north of England.
And this week's stand-up is on cracking form, which is nice - here's a sample!
Ee, by gum, they don't make comics like that any more, do they! [Thank heavens for that! - Ed]
Will this do?
[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzz!!!!!
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