Saturday May 30th 2026 "Are YOU planning to still wear your shorts this week, even after the weather 'breaks'?"

Yes, Friends, are YOU planning to still wear your shorts this week, after the weather breaks? Certainlhy, a defiant group in our society has decided just that!

Today's Onion News has more....

Kudos, those big men!!!

And reading their defiant 'declaration of intent' this morning brings a secret smile to the faces of me and my wife Lois, here in semi-comatose Liphook, Hampshire this morning, no doubt about that!

me and my wife Lois -  a recent picture

With news here that the current heatwave is about to break, we've decided to celebrate the last official hot day by doing very little again - well, it's our last chance! The crazy mayhem that usually characterises our astonishingly busy life-style starts all over again tomorrow, so why not revel in what may be our last chance to 'hunker down' and spend as much time in bed this afternoon as we can - well, wouldn't you if you had the chance!

We've got a little bit of gardening to do, it's true, so we try and 'polish that off' as early as we can, before settling down on the sofa to do the puzzles in the back of next week's Radio Times.

There are some real 'doozies' this week. Have you done them yet? Bet you haven't haha!!!!

And if YOU  are already completely stuck and short of ideas, here's some helpful hints coming up! However, if you prefer to do them unaided, better look away now!!!!

Bet you can't beat our record 8 out of 10 correct on those Mastermind 'toughies'!!! Yes, despite the heat, you'll notice that mine and Lois's brains are still in top form, which is nice!!!!

And if you're wondering why that former England rugby player is known by the nickname "Chariots" - we didn't know this, but his real name is Martin Offiah - so 'Chariots Offiah" - geddit? Haha!

Also, if you wondering how Lois and I "manage it", at our advanced age - me 80 and Lois 79 for a few more days, would you believe (!) - well mind your own business!!! Don't be a "nosy parker"!!!! And I'm talking 'managing the Radio Times puzzles' here, obviously!

A weird phrase, though, isn't it, "nosy parker", but just next to the Radio Times Puzzle Pages, you'll find wordsmith Susie Dent's explanation, which is handy!

Fascinating stuff, isn't it!!!!

[If you say so! - Ed]

Well, Channel 5's latest celebrity travelogue presenter, former journalist and news-reader, Angela Rippon, obviously "manages it" (!), even though, like Lois and me, she's now 80 - what madness, isn't it!!!!

Tonight Angela arrives in Ho Chi Minh City - the former Saigon, where she is shown round a famous house from French colonial times, with a scandalous history, which is now a museum.

The house was built in 1895, but in 1929, it earned notoriety after a scandalous affair between the 23-year-old son of the house-owner, Huyn Thu Le and a visiting teenage French student from Paris, Marguerite Dumas. 

After Marguerite returned to Paris, she wrote a book about her affair, called "L'Amante" (The Lover), a film which can't be shown in Vietnam today, because, the young curator says, it's "too sexy". 

Angela asks the young Vietnamese curator if she has managed to see the film herself, however.

Oh dear!!!

And these days, history-conscious thrill-seekers can hire the house for themselves, apparently, and spend the night here. It features an extraordinary piece of furniture, imported from China,  which doubles as both a dining-table and a bed. 

During the day, you would use it as a table, and for dinner, in wintertime, people put hot bricks underneath, and by the time you'd finish eating, the hot bricks would have heated the surface of the table, and then you can use it as your bed, now nicely warmed-up. What a great idea!

Despite being well-used by couples over the decades, the table surface seems remarkably shiny, but there's a simple reason for that, based on the table's extraordinary inlay, Angela explains.

Naughty Angela! And I bet she's "buffed" a few table-tops in her time haha!

Will this do?

[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]

22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzzz!!!!!