RIP Judith Chalmers

[George 1978]

Buckingham Palace responded to the letter that I sent them last month in relation to what would have been the late Queen Elizabeth II's 100th birthday....

[George 1978]

When watching ITV's Monday evening Krypton Factor replacement at 7.00 pm during the winter and early spring months of the 1980s and 1990s, I used to think how great it could have been to get a job which combines going on holiday to half the countries around the world whilst still working at the same...

[George 1978]

Sunday 27th August 1978 to Saturday 2nd September 1978 (Courtesy of the Official Charts website):

1) Three Times a Lady - The Commodores
2) It's Raining - Darts
3) Rivers of Babylon/Brown Girl in the Ring - Boney M
4) Dreadlock Holiday - 10CC
5) You're The One That...

[George 1978]

Reminds me of when Frankie Howerd was asked whether he was man or mouse: "pass the cheese, please", he said.

Wensleydale, definately. I must get that sandwich toaster out of the cupboard. Wallace and Gromit have a lot to answer for... And so does Neil Armstrong...

[George 1978]

When I was looking at old TV guides from around 1973, I noticed Skribble (spelt like that) mentioned in the midday listings, around where Rainbow would be....

[George 1978]

Hello and welcome. This is a great place....

[George 1978]

I bet that in six months' time, Look Mum No Computer (or Sam Battle) will be completely forgotten about apart from in Kent where he's based, I assume. Even then I don't think anyone would bat an eyelid if he walked down his local High Street. He did look as if he was parodying a 1980s Kwik-Fit advert...

[George 1978]

Bulgaria received 516 points, which of course is 516 times more than the number of points that the UK received. I am just glad that Israel didn't win - I like to think of them in their late 1970s Milk and Honey heyday.

Oh, I also had the Lithuanian coverage of the contest on my computer...

[George 1978]

Bulgaria won for the first time which seems rather rare these days. Thank you to Ukraine who gave the UK its only point - the lowest we have been without scoring zero. Dara is just one letter difference from the 1970 winner, Dana. I nearly had a heart attack when it looked as if Israel was going to...

[George 1978]

I heard that Canada could even join as well - I wonder if that would become a reality in the years ahead?...

[George 1978]

It is a Monday morning in around 1984-1985; I am off school in bed, (presumably unwell and not as a school refuser which I would become a few years later), watching the black and white portable in the bedroom. TV-am has just finished; the Central start-up commences and by 9.30 am they join the network...

[George 1978]

Azerbaijan has "just gone" and won't appear in the final. ("Just Go" is such an apt phrase for Starmer at this moment in time!)

I will officially endorse Australia in the televote this year with Delta Goodrem and her song Eclipse.

[George 1978]

Also, never mind Eurovision songs with political lyrics, but perhaps Sir Keir Starmer should take advice from the title of this year's entry from Azerbaijan, perhaps?

Just a thought...

[George 1978]

San Marino and Estonia out - Israel has managed to fluke it into the final which is insulting to those who have been affected by the recent war. Carry on like this and I don't think that I will see Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Iceland and Slovenia participating for many years to come, and other...

[George 1978]

You think that teeth is like hair and nails; they eventually grow back if you lose them, but they don't unfortunately....

[George 1978]

My late father had no teeth from an early age (he used to bite into things like hard-boiled sweets when he was younger and lost them as a result, so the story goes), and my late mother had dentures for quite a few years. Shall we say that I always got hungry if I done something like brushed my teeth...

[George 1978]

I know that not only did John Peel share my birthday but he was broadcasting on Radio 1 on the day I was born as well!

[George 1978]

She studied the TV schedules more for Paul Young appearances than she should have done for her exams back then!...

[George 1978]

At least we have celebrated another British institution who did make it to the age of 100 - good old Sir David Attenborough!...

[George 1978]

My sister who liked Paul Young at the time had read the Live Aid TV schedules like a train timetable in order to find out when he was on (which was around 4.30 pm), and I think that was the only act that she was interested in....