You’re My Waterloo. I love this song off the new Libertines album.
Piano, cello, heartfelt lyrics and a live performance at Glastonbury.
I’m making my way through the rest of the album – I’ll let you know what I think.
Pole dancer
Bear with me. Thanks.
We went to Madame Zingara’s last month. It was great. But I can’t help but think that they got the order of their acts slightly incorrect. Because they started out with this guy, Saulo Sarmiento, doing this stuff:
Focus, ladies. Focus.
I’m not saying that the other acts weren’t entertaining or incredible in their own right. But they didn’t quite manage the spellbinding, wow factor of our Saulo. He would have been amazing as the final act of the evening. The grand finale. The big finish. Die grootste afwerking.
Or, if he really needs to be the first act of the show, then make his the last act… as well.
I have several minutes experience as a theatre show director, so you should definitely listen to me.
Overberging it
Taking a trip down south today. Through this:
Not sure who this is by, or where it’s from, but it looks a bit Swellendammy to me. Either way, the barley and the canola in the watery sunshine is so very Overbergesque.
I’ll try to keep my eyes on the road.
Willie Donger is a human bollard
What? As in Bollards of London?
Well, yes. It’s all going off in Burton.
An angry pensioner has vowed to become a one-man bollard to keep town centre pedestrians safe from vehicles.
Retired Willie Donger made the promise to keep unauthorised motors from travelling through High Street, Burton, after he was just inches away from being mown down by a speeding car while crossing the road.
The 68-year-old, of Elizabeth Court, in Brough Road, Winshill, said that he would have ‘gone splat’ if he had not heard a stranger shouting at him to watch out.
He said: “I was almost splattered in the middle of the road. The car must have been going at least 45mph. If the guy on the footpath on the other side of the road had not shouted ‘mind the car’ I would have been a goner. The driver did not even slow down. He just swerved around me and carried on. I gave the car a whack with my walking stick. I hope it has made a dent.
Petty politics or something mean that the bollards at one end of the High Street or something haven’t been replaced… or something.
Now Willie is going to stand in the place of the missing bollards.
Mr Donger said that he did not want to do it, but would be prepared to control the flow of traffic himself.
He said: “You should not have to fear for your own life in a pedestrian area. If something is not done soon I am going to stand there all day and police it myself.”
Willie Donger is a human bollard. Props to you, Sir.
HMS Lancaster in Cape Town
Yeah. It’s a British warship, but it’s named after a place on *that side* of the Pennines. Still, it was deemed worthy of a 21-gun salute from Signal Hill this morning (thus alarming thousands of unaware Capetonians who thought we were under attack and prompting a flurry of hits on this old post), and it might also be something you want to go and see on the public holiday and pseudo long weekend.
Hey. Great news. You can.
The ship will be open to the public on Heritage Day, 24 September. This will enable members of the public to board and view the ship. Visitors will be able to tour the upper deck, view the impressive weapon systems and see the new Wildcat Helicopter and her aircrew.
As with all these opportunities, you should probably expect long queues, but if you can get on board, you should probably expect quite a tour as well. Details are on that link above.