Good afternnon.
Age is an odd thing. There are some things in life that you are judged not old enough to do but who decides? I took my kids to see the movie "Elizabeth" at the weekend and it was rated 12A.
That meant even the 9 year old could go, if I said so and if I was there. But he couldn't go on his own.
Seeing Mary Stewart decapitated would, I am sure, be as shocking whether I was there or not but, I suppose, at least I could explain it was't Auntie Mary but another odd woman with a Scots accent spurting blood all over the parquet flooring at Sterling Castle. And the actresss wasn't really dead. At which point, the whole purpose of the enterprise seemed as futile as Spain's attempt to restore Catholicism to C16th Europe. Oh well, the popcorn was good and so was the destruction of the Armada.
Age is an odd thing. There are some things in life that you are judged not old enough to do but who decides? I took my kids to see the movie "Elizabeth" at the weekend and it was rated 12A.
That meant even the 9 year old could go, if I said so and if I was there. But he couldn't go on his own.
Seeing Mary Stewart decapitated would, I am sure, be as shocking whether I was there or not but, I suppose, at least I could explain it was't Auntie Mary but another odd woman with a Scots accent spurting blood all over the parquet flooring at Sterling Castle. And the actresss wasn't really dead. At which point, the whole purpose of the enterprise seemed as futile as Spain's attempt to restore Catholicism to C16th Europe. Oh well, the popcorn was good and so was the destruction of the Armada.
Incidently, my 22 year old daughter attended the 9 year old's birth when she was 12 because she wanted to, and the mid-wife and my wife agreed.
So here are our dilemmas tonight: should a four year old help deliver her little brother?
And is a 20 year old not yet old enough to work in a Gentlemen's Club?
On the first count, it gets even more interesting because the little boy was a staggering 14 weeks premature and the greatest imaginable dramas unfolded over a few hours that made Casualty look like Crossroads.
I swear you won't want to miss a frame and there won't be a dry eye in the house.
Robin has the towels and hot water.
On the second count, (the 20 year old in the Club), our director Dan blew his top at our meeting: "16 year old community support cops in Thames Valley and a 4 year old delivering a premature baby: why can't this young woman just be left to get on with the job she wants to do?", he fumed. I have cleaned up the language but I think you'll want to see and hear what drove the delightful Dan to distraction. Phil is the man with the P45s.
London's had some great fires in it's time: 1666 in Pudding Lane was a cracker and got a Monument for its efforts.
1834 in Whitehall was seen from Brighton, and gave us the Westminster we know, and either love or hate, today.
So, how will Stratford in 2007 rate? It is a kind of movie makers dream come true: the pictures are spectacular but, in the real world, no one was hurt by the immediate blaze. But it was bang in the middle of the 2012 Olympic Park and slap next to the brand new Eurostar line. Coo, what a scorcher, as the Sun might say. Amazing pictures many of which you yourselves have sent us. Piers is the man in the fire-proofs with the big yellow hat.
1834 in Whitehall was seen from Brighton, and gave us the Westminster we know, and either love or hate, today.
So, how will Stratford in 2007 rate? It is a kind of movie makers dream come true: the pictures are spectacular but, in the real world, no one was hurt by the immediate blaze. But it was bang in the middle of the 2012 Olympic Park and slap next to the brand new Eurostar line. Coo, what a scorcher, as the Sun might say. Amazing pictures many of which you yourselves have sent us. Piers is the man in the fire-proofs with the big yellow hat.
Could the quality of the street furniture in your manor have an effect on property prices? Do you know what street furniture is? It is an intriguing connection of some real importance that you may wish to explore with us at 6.
Miss Derham, a star in my book by any measure, is about to star in the West End .. alongside the man who gave Rising Damp some ethnic edge. We will be raising the curtain on this little piece of thespian intrigue: "Beginners, please!" also at 6.
And we end where we began, setting your senses on fire with pictures you provided us with: we will also risk doing the papers but will keep them away from matches, and we will have Robin with us to conjure up some heavy rain if it all gets a bit too warm for your tastes.
See you ar six.
Alastair "I'm 55 and can do what I want" Stewart and Katie "Olivier Awards here I come" Derham.
