I Had A Very Quiet Day,

whilst Diana was at work, 

first thing give the fox a few peanuts, today he was joined by a magpie, 

and a crow,

then for myself a day in the back garden, listening to such delights as Just a Minute, and of course Round the Horne, it is a BBC Radio comedy program starring Kenneth Horne, first transmitted in four series of weekly episodes from 1965 until 1968, the first episode of Round the Horne was heard on 7 March 1965. Listeners immediately took to the characters introduced, such as Julian and Sandy, Dame Celia Molestrangler, Fiona and Charles, and Rambling Syd Rumpo, a little about Round the Horne,

image BBC the whole show is held together by Kenneth Horne, a most likable chap, it was a BBC Radio comedy programme starring Kenneth Horne, the show was created by Barry Took and Marty Feldman, who wrote the first three series. The fourth was written by Took, Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke and Donald Webster, Horne's supporting cast comprised Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and, in the first three series, Bill Pertwee. The announcer was Douglas Smith, who also took part in the sketches. All except the last series featured music by Edwin Braden, played by the band "the Hornblowers", with a song in the middle of each show performed by the close-harmony singing group the Fraser Hayes Four; in the fourth series, the music was by Max Harris with a smaller group of players than the earlier series, the programme was transmitted on a Sunday afternoon for a family audience, but writers Barry Took and Marty Feldman took advantage of the permissive air of mid Sixties Britain to insert lots of saucy humor, 

the most popular characters, Julian and Sandy, spoke in Polari - the underground slang used before the decriminalization of homosexuality - and produced several catchphrases that passed into common use, a little about them, Julian and Sandy, played by Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams respectively, both were in the show playing a couple of camp out-of-work actors, at the time of the shows male homosexuality was illegal in the UK, laws meant that any male homosexual could be arrested by the police, this led to the development of a secret language so that gay men could converse without being understood in front of straight members of the community similar to Cockney rhyming slang, the language was called Polari, it was widely used by the British gay community from the 1900s to the 1970s, it meant that there was a show within a show in which the producers of it the BBC did not know what they were broadcasting! I stayed in garden for the afternoon, 

and as I found out, that was a tad too long, as I settled down for my evening read and a sherry it was obvious that I was going red, 

for tonight instead of a Sunday lunch I had the last of yesterdays cottage pie, 'Cheers!', then feet up for a couple of films, firstly,

 Monty Python and the Holy Grail, King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table set out on a quest to find the Holy Grail...as told to do so by a cartoon God that lives in the clouds, great comedy, but as it started Diana arrived home, and mentioned I was going red, anyway we watched the film together, I am not sure she grasped all of the humor, but she found it funny in places, after that it was a Midsomer Murder, then as Diana was so tired, she was off to bed, for myself a Bangers & Cash before I too was off to bed.