Did my hospital chaplaincy round this morning and had lunch with Bill and one of the other chaplains.
Children have gone back to school so everyone's routine is getting back to normal. Wednesday nights at Emmanuel for example. It is Family Promise this week so Beth organised a games night with pizza for the guests. I took a bit more ice cream, I told her I liked this concept of 'ice cream bistros'. If we ever had such fun things in Britain they passed me by.
On this day in history...............that is the 6th August. OK so I am a bit behind myself, trying to catch up, what's new.
Lucille Ball was born in 1911. Who remembers "I Love Lucy" ???? A famous 1950s tv show said to be the most 'universally beloved' sitcom of all time. I remember gathering excitedly round our little black and white television, which I think was about 9", to settle down and watch it with my parents. We thought it was wonderful, and watching a 60" flat screen today, watching far more sophisticated programmes, it stretches credulity to imagine that I ever gave it the time of day, far less thought it was wonderful.
These are a few facts about Lucille Ball - I am going out for the day so am doing this in a bit of a rush.
She was fired from working in an ice cream store because she kept forgetting to put the bananas in banana splits.
She played the part of a slave girl in a film which necessitated her having to shave her eyebrows off, and they never grew back.
She went to Drama School in NY City and was a classmate of Bette Davis, she was sent home (Lucille Ball was) because she was "too shy".
She eloped with Cuban actor Dezi Arnaz in 1940. In 1948 she starred in a radio comedy "My Favourite Husband" Then in 1950 (I was 11) CBS offered to turn it into a tv series.
Well, as I said, am going out for the day so going to quickly hit the 'publish' button.
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