Wednesday, 3 April 2024

I Am Only Making One Post Today,

and as soon as I have posted that I will be out, 


to visit Duncan, back to Tuesday, it was Diana's day off, so a girls day out with Kai, for myself into town,

the magnolia now past it's best,

into town and Sainsbury's to exchange our CO2 cylinder, 

back on the bus and walk past the snail mail box and home,

where it was feet up for Mutiny on the Bounty, not the latest one, but the 1962 version staring Trevor Howard,

meanwhile, 

the girls had arrived in London,

by Big Ben,

Kai,

and Diana in Parliament Square, 

next stop for a photo opportunity,

Trafalgar Square, 

time for a pose, 

and a look at Nelson,

one more for the album, 

then off to Chinatown,

and this is where they ended up, 


the restaurant is a all-new Japanese BBQ. Specializing in yakitori, yakiniku, and dry-aged wagyu, 

where you cook your own food, and the girls ordered lots of it! the menu is here,

 
Diana made a short video of their trip, arriving home we watched a double helping of Deadliest Catch, after which as tomorrow Diana has a early start, she was off to bed, for myself a double treat firstly,

 a Little Britain, so funny, and as a bonus every single episode without exception will have the snowflakes fainting!

next another series guaranteed to have the snowflakes spitting out their dummies! It Ain't Half Hot Mum was in the process of being brought back to TV screens but it will now never be seen again on normal television channels, the show when it was broadcast between 1974 and 1981 was extremely popular, it attracted audiences of around 15 million at its peak, but it made jokes about the cultural differences between the Indian, Burmese and Japanese, a TV source said: 'the word has gone out the series of  It Ain’t Half Hot Mum will never be shown in the future on the channel, the censors feel the undertone of racism and catty remarks about different races and religions has no place on BBC channels',

the show was written and created by David Croft and Jimmy Perry, the people behind Dad's Army, and 'Allo 'Allo! (both shows featuring fun being taken out of other peoples races), it was set in British India and was about the adventures of a Royal Artillery Concert Party, the show courted controversy in its heyday for having Rangi Ram, an Indian character, played by a white actor, Michael Bates,

co-writer Jimmy Perry said, last year: 'it’s without doubt the funniest series David Croft and I wrote, it’s also the show we’re not allowed to talk about,' BBC spies are everywhere! far from being racist, the show’s real hero was the resourceful Rangi Ram, he said, and the homophobic Sergeant Major Williams, played by Windsor Davies, was created to lampoon such prejudices, not to endorse them, but as usual older cultures are being judged by modern morals, it always makes me laugh when I see examples of 18th and 19th century culture being held accountable by 21st century morals, it may not be correct now, (I wish it was), but at the time it was OK to hang mass murders and those that murdered children, policemen,

and the good news, a cable channel is showing episodes which the master copies were not kept, all of these are from VHS tapes found in Australia, what a treat! before I too was off to bed.



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