What a lovely blog Gem

We enjoyed reading your blog this morning, Gem. Sounds like a really great day. We've reserved BBC 2 for tomorrow night at 10pm to see if we can get a laugh. There is not much on telly to get me to laugh - not even the mad Vic and Bob. Bring back the Fast Show eh? Glad to see you had a free wine on the French. Did we tell you of the time we went to the Vine when we were drinking next door's wine. We (Julian Grandma and I) settled for a compromise when the waiter found out!! We have started buying thos £1 - £1,50 bottles of French wine from Marks. Ideal if you don't want to sleep all evening and you can hide them in a pocket when you go out to lunch! Screw tops don't need an opener.
Talking of anagrams - how about these? Dormitory - Dirty Room; Desperation - a rope ends it ; Slot machines - cash lost in 'em; The public art galleries - large Picture Halls I bet. This one must have taken some time-
"To be or not to be that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" = "In one of the Bard's best thought tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten". I have not checked them out but quelle domage.
We watched a fascinating tv programe yesterday where Howard Goodall was analysing some of the later Lennon and McCartney songs eg on Sergeant Pepper and Revolver. He said that the whole of the music scene was altered after seeing the complexity of these tunes,with the variety of chords and modulations (What am I talking about) especially the Penny Lane/She's leaving home etc and moreso after the 'sitar' additions of George. More can be seen on Channel4.com/culture click on Howard Goodalls twentieth century greats - this was the first of five?