Not Good

Tim Brooke-Taylor has passed away from the dreaded Covid19...

My weeknights in the 70s & 80s would have been a lot more serious & a whole lot less funny & silly without him, along with Graeme Garden & Bill Oddie in The Goodies... I discovered later how far back his comedy career went, in other shows & radio programs he was involved in during the 60s &, like all the members of Monty Python, it was fascinating to see how they all came together through these various sketch & topical comedy shows, before coalescing into the 'ultimate' vehicle

I looked on Youtube this morning for the perfect Goodies sketch to post &, instead, found something I'd never seen before - Tim making an appearance on The Paul Hogan Show, back when Paul was actually funny, had good writers & no plastic surgery. Like most humour from the 70s, it skates a bit close to the line, but not in a mean-spirited way

Watch on YouTube

Vale Tim... If only you had emigrated to Australia, you would still be here, making us laugh

A Theory...

L-SP posited a theory last night... with all the jets & cars not going anywhere & playing havoc with the atmosphere, are the seasons actually going back to where they're supposed to be - we're in the 2nd month of Autumn & it's actually getting a bit cold at night, something that hasn't happened in Sydney for quite a while - Autumn seemed to have become an extension of Summer, until a switch gets flicked some time in early June, when we get 3 weeks of Winter, before it starts getting warm again... I own 2 Winter coats that haven't left the wardrobe in years!...

It's probably a bit soon for that kind of change to have happened, but the anecdotal evidence is compelling, if not the empirical... yet

Anybody else experiencing 'proper' weather for the time of year? Or is it all still slightly out of whack...