What a source of wonderment and amusement The One Show continues to be.
Last night the main guest was 75 year old "Music Legend" Englebert Humperdinck who will be representing the United Kingdom in the next Eurovision Song Contest. I mentioned this in a previous blog. When I heard he was going to be on the show my first thought, and one that I am sure were shared by many others, were along the lines of I wonder if he can still walk without a zimmer frame. But there he was as large as life with the same hairstyle as he wore in the eighties and nineties.
We just knew he was a music legend because Matt Baker told us so. Thankfully as I had to go out I just caught the first 10 minutes of the show. First off they asked Englebert what they should call him:
"You can call me Engle, you can call me Bert, you can call me Humpy but don't call me Dinky," he replied in an ever so slightly rehearsed opening. So they called him Englebert. Sadly I didn't watch long enough to hear him talk about Eurovision. I suppose I could have recorded the rest of the show but there didn't seem to be a lot of point.
Anyway they asked Dinky whether he had ever been to Azerbaijan where the contest is being held. "No" he had never been there. Cue VT (As they say in the trade). Some dude presenter visits Azerbaijan's capital Baku where he does one of those zany kind of lad features full of fun and frivolity. He found a local guide who was an avid Dinky fan and had pictures of him in her car (how distracting is that when you are driving?). The guide was asked to take funny dude to see some of the sights of Baku and first on the list was the second tallest flagpole in the world (wow). I wish I knew where the tallest was!!!
At that point I went off to the Wymondham Railway Quiz. Not impressed by what I saw of Dinky though. Maybe he should change his name again to Al Zheimer.
I apologise for that totally tasteless joke which has no foundation in fact whatsoever. On a serious note I have had relatives who have suffered from Alzheimers and are very aware of just what a hideous disease it is. I try and support the charity whenever possible (and this paragraph has been the serious part of today's blog).
Working today on promoting two coming dates - I am writing a quiz for April 21st at Hethersett Junior School to raise money for the Jubilee Fair in the village. Hopefully money raised on this evening will go to providing portable toilets for the event! Secondly I am also promoting the new running club in the village which I am helping to organise alongside Norfolk's former Olympic runner Paul Evans. Paul is a great guy and ran the 10,000 metres for Great Britain in two Olympic Games and also came third in a London Marathon, second in a New York Marathon and won one in Chicago. So when Paul says run you run. Seriously this is a club for beginners and people who want to get into running. For me it will be a chance to start up again despite my now advanced age. It all starts on April 19th and runs through until June on Thursday Evenings from 7 to 8 p.m on the back field at Hethersett Junior School. If anyone from Hethersett is reading this and wants to join in, just turn up on the night and it's all free and supported by Run England. It is hoped that after the initial 10 week period a permanent social running group will be set up.
Brilliant news that footballer Patrice Mwamba continues to improve in hospital. As somebody said yesterday his collapse brought the football world together as one family - how true. There was a lot of humour in yesterday's interviews with players who had been in to see Patrice who apparently had been talking in two languages - French and English. I hope he didn't mix them up. Spoke to somebody who thought it amazing that following his collapse and heart attack he had woken up able to speak in a new language. We had to explain that coming from the Congo but living in England since the age of 11 he was fluent in both languages.
So they interviewed a footballer who had visited him. They wore the obligatory baseball cap so it was impossible to tell who they were. They came out with a couple of gems, however.
"I'm looking forward to seeing him standing, because that's how I remember him," was one and the other was even better. "He was acting very normal and that's important."
And so to the Wymondham Railway quiz. Myself and Anne went along with son Matt and lovely daughter in law to be Emma and had a really nice evening, coming fourth out of 16 teams - which wasn't bad at all. We had some good guesses on Eastender questions but ended up kicking ourselves at not getting a really simple question. The question was: "What is the female equivalent of a knight?" We assumed it meant a knight as in round table and jousting etc and couldn't think of a female equivalent. The answer was Dame. So it was a knight as in Queen touching shoulder with a sword. We got the wrong kind of Knight. Well I suppose it was that kind of night!
Last night the main guest was 75 year old "Music Legend" Englebert Humperdinck who will be representing the United Kingdom in the next Eurovision Song Contest. I mentioned this in a previous blog. When I heard he was going to be on the show my first thought, and one that I am sure were shared by many others, were along the lines of I wonder if he can still walk without a zimmer frame. But there he was as large as life with the same hairstyle as he wore in the eighties and nineties.
We just knew he was a music legend because Matt Baker told us so. Thankfully as I had to go out I just caught the first 10 minutes of the show. First off they asked Englebert what they should call him:
"You can call me Engle, you can call me Bert, you can call me Humpy but don't call me Dinky," he replied in an ever so slightly rehearsed opening. So they called him Englebert. Sadly I didn't watch long enough to hear him talk about Eurovision. I suppose I could have recorded the rest of the show but there didn't seem to be a lot of point.
Anyway they asked Dinky whether he had ever been to Azerbaijan where the contest is being held. "No" he had never been there. Cue VT (As they say in the trade). Some dude presenter visits Azerbaijan's capital Baku where he does one of those zany kind of lad features full of fun and frivolity. He found a local guide who was an avid Dinky fan and had pictures of him in her car (how distracting is that when you are driving?). The guide was asked to take funny dude to see some of the sights of Baku and first on the list was the second tallest flagpole in the world (wow). I wish I knew where the tallest was!!!
At that point I went off to the Wymondham Railway Quiz. Not impressed by what I saw of Dinky though. Maybe he should change his name again to Al Zheimer.
I apologise for that totally tasteless joke which has no foundation in fact whatsoever. On a serious note I have had relatives who have suffered from Alzheimers and are very aware of just what a hideous disease it is. I try and support the charity whenever possible (and this paragraph has been the serious part of today's blog).
Working today on promoting two coming dates - I am writing a quiz for April 21st at Hethersett Junior School to raise money for the Jubilee Fair in the village. Hopefully money raised on this evening will go to providing portable toilets for the event! Secondly I am also promoting the new running club in the village which I am helping to organise alongside Norfolk's former Olympic runner Paul Evans. Paul is a great guy and ran the 10,000 metres for Great Britain in two Olympic Games and also came third in a London Marathon, second in a New York Marathon and won one in Chicago. So when Paul says run you run. Seriously this is a club for beginners and people who want to get into running. For me it will be a chance to start up again despite my now advanced age. It all starts on April 19th and runs through until June on Thursday Evenings from 7 to 8 p.m on the back field at Hethersett Junior School. If anyone from Hethersett is reading this and wants to join in, just turn up on the night and it's all free and supported by Run England. It is hoped that after the initial 10 week period a permanent social running group will be set up.
Brilliant news that footballer Patrice Mwamba continues to improve in hospital. As somebody said yesterday his collapse brought the football world together as one family - how true. There was a lot of humour in yesterday's interviews with players who had been in to see Patrice who apparently had been talking in two languages - French and English. I hope he didn't mix them up. Spoke to somebody who thought it amazing that following his collapse and heart attack he had woken up able to speak in a new language. We had to explain that coming from the Congo but living in England since the age of 11 he was fluent in both languages.
So they interviewed a footballer who had visited him. They wore the obligatory baseball cap so it was impossible to tell who they were. They came out with a couple of gems, however.
"I'm looking forward to seeing him standing, because that's how I remember him," was one and the other was even better. "He was acting very normal and that's important."
And so to the Wymondham Railway quiz. Myself and Anne went along with son Matt and lovely daughter in law to be Emma and had a really nice evening, coming fourth out of 16 teams - which wasn't bad at all. We had some good guesses on Eastender questions but ended up kicking ourselves at not getting a really simple question. The question was: "What is the female equivalent of a knight?" We assumed it meant a knight as in round table and jousting etc and couldn't think of a female equivalent. The answer was Dame. So it was a knight as in Queen touching shoulder with a sword. We got the wrong kind of Knight. Well I suppose it was that kind of night!
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