Tuesday, 25 July 2006
Another
casting session this morning but I stayed at home to
write; looking forward to getting the tape tomorrow
and saying to myself, "oh, I wish I'd gone in 'cause
I'd have met that woman who played the wife of one of
the Likely Lads"… or something along those
lines. Went to the dentist this afternoon. The last
visit SHOULD have been the LAST visit as far as all
this work is concerned but of course there was some
annoying complication and I had to go back today. But
at last, as well as all the other work, all my metal
fillings have been replaced by white ones and now on
the rare occasions when I laugh my mouth no longer looks
like a bag of loose change. The last crown was put in
place and all the children of Swiss Cottage danced in
the street at what was the end of an era. Listened to
Radio 2 in the car on the way back home, I must say
that Chris Evans genuinely sounds as though he is having
a great time and I find his attitude very infectious.
Did I really just write, "and I find his attitude
very infectious" - fucking hell, when did I start
writing school reports for radio 2 DJs? Anyway, Chris
Evans, yes, I am extremely happy to go against the grain
of the recent avalanche of complaints from from radio
2 listeners who have branded Mr Evans presenting style
too "frivolous" and "juvenile" for
the 'drive time' slot. Well I'm terribly sorry that
po-faced housewives in their late thirties haven't got
Johnny Walker banging on about stocks and shares while
they help their spindly school children into their empty
Land Rovers but having Chris Evans say "What's
in your locker cocker?" before we hear the sports
reporter makes me smile. And that, after all, is the
only thing that matters.
