Vincent Week

Gosh, who'd'a thunk it - TWO movies starring himself on UK TV next week.

On Monday 16th at 9pm, Being Human is on TCm again.
On Tuesday 17th at 2.25am (ie. Wednesday morning) Strange Days is on Sci-Fi/Horror.

Stray

The selection needed improving.

So I improved it.

Pravda

I couldn't leave you with just two pictures, could I? So I moved on to Pravda, and guess what? Only a partial album there too!

But Not Forgotten...

...appears to have been forgotten. Or at least partly lost. I have no idea where the bulk of the album is. It doesn't even have a number 19, as there is a chunk missing there. Yet I KNOW I have some very fetching pictures somewhere.

Flushed

I read in the newspaper last week that while nearly 50% of Europeans use recycled toilet paper, only about 10% of Americans do. Maybe these attitudes give a clue as to why:

Certainly, it appears the those in the US think that recycled paper is rougher and less soft than the recycled variety:

Not so! And when you realise that, according to the same research, more damage is done by the processing of virgin wood for toilet and kitchen paper than by the use of Hummers, you will see that for the sake of the planet we all need to turn to recycled as soon as we can.

I remember reading some years ago that Cher never goes anywhere without a supply of Charmin.

Here's what the manufacturers, Procter and Gamble say:

"We do not advertise in the U.S. with an environmental message," Sauers (P&G Vice President)says. That's because P&G doesn't think that its most of its customers care all that much about their environmental impact. But it's a missed opportunity for P&G to raise awareness. P&G is also clear about the fact that its sustainable innovations won't require consumers to pay more or give up anything in terms of quality or convenience. "If you give them everything they want, they will choose sustainability," Sauers says. "But they will not accept a tradeoff."

I don't believe Americans are that shallow (aside from the ones that supported Bush and liked Palin Bush) so I am appealing to you all to switch to recycled toilet and kitchen rolls to do a bit more to help save the planet. Even paper from sustainable forests won't do - it still has to go through the energy-wasting process that is so harmful. Don't be content with doing more damage than Hummer drivers!

The Gift

We may not have 6 closeups, but we DO have the hand holding the little crutch and the squat in the parking garage, so I'm happy.

Gemini

The selection was by and large disappointing.

As I can't stand to disappoint, or be disappointed...

Undaunted Mettle

A little short on closeups:






















So:

In Memoriam, a laugh and a trip down Memory Lane

Last week, after a long battle with cancer, Wendy Richard died.

While most people know her as Pauline Fowler in Eastenders, a role she had for 25 years, she is also well remembered as Miss Brahms in Are You Being Served? along with Mrs SLocum and her pussy, and Mr Humphreys' "I'm free".

But her first claim to fame came years earlier in this oft-forgotten 1960s Number 1 comedy hit record:

A Person of Interest

The first time we wanted to kill SWMNBN.



















And just because I felt like it: