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I don't agree, I think he's a very good actor. The first role I saw him in was in 24 Hour Party People as Tony Wilson. I was very dubious ("Steve Coogan? WTF?") but although he bears no resemblance at all to Tony Wilson, he inhabited the character so well that I very quickly forgot it was Steve Coogan.

Sat 8 Jun 51 John Newman — Love Me Again 44 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 41 Coldplay — Paradise 41 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe 40 Florence & The Machine — Spectrum 39 Lorde — Royals 39 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky 38 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball 37 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker 34 Lily Allen — Somewhere Only We Know 31 Avicii — Wake Me Up 30 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium 29 Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E — Need U (100 Percent) 28 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love 27 Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa — Payphone 27 Jessie J — Domino 25 Rihanna — Diamonds 25 Avicii Vs. Nicky Romero — I Could Be The One 25 Little Mix — Wings 24 Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX — I Love It +4 23 Katy Perry — Part Of Me 23 Fun ft. Janelle Monae — We Are Young 23 Will.I.Am ft. Eva Simons — This Is Love 22 Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin — Don’t You Worry Child 21 DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora — Hot Right Now 21 Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith — La La La 20 Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande — Beneath Your Beautiful 20 Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch — Sweet Nothing 20 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night 20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through 20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control 16 OneRepublic — Counting Stars 14 Ellie Goulding — Burn 00 Ne-Yo — Let Me Love You -6

Sat 8 JUn 34 Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street 27 Donna Summer - Love’s Unkind 26 Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3 25 Electric Light Orchestra - Don’t Bring Me Down 25 Lene Lovich - Lucky Number 24 ABBA - Angeleyes/Voulez-Vous 24 The Jam - The Eton Rifles 24 The Rolling Stones - Miss You +1 23 Marshall Hain - Dancing in the City +3 22 Earth, Wind & Fire - September 22 The Cars - My Best Friend’s Girl 21 Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams - Too Much, Too Little, Too Late 21 Michael Jackson - Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough 21 Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand - No More Tears (Enough is Enough) 21 The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper’s Delight 21 ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) 20 Frankie Valli - Grease 20 Rose Royce - Wishing on a Star 20 Bee Gees - Too Much Heaven 20 Racey - Lay Your Love on Me 20 The Three Degrees - Woman in Love 20 The Sex Pistols - C’mon Everybody 20 Sad Café - Every Day Hurts 18 A Taste of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie 16 The Sex Pistols - Something Else/Friggin’ in the Riggin’ 16 James Galway - Annie’s Song 15 David Essex - Oh What A Circus 14 The Dooleys - Wanted 12 The Bellamy Brothers - If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me -2 06 Boney M - Hooray! Hooray It’s A Holi-Holiday -4

Appropriate.

It's in what I like to call Occupied North Berkshire.

I think my internet must have dropped out as I posted. It does it a lot, drops out for a few seconds then comes back. I'll post again here (and add those points) 24 Donna Summer- Love’s Unkind +4 22 Ian Dury and the Blockheads- Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3 22 Gerry Rafferty- Baker Street 21 The Rolling Stones- Miss You 21 Earth, Wind & Fire- September 21 Electric Light Orchestra- Don’t Bring Me Down 21 The Jam- The Eton Rifles 21 Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams- Too Much, Too Little, Too Late 21 Michael Jackson- Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough 21 Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand- No More Tears (Enough is Enough) 21 The Sugarhill Gang- Rapper’s Delight 20 Rose Royce- Wishing on a Star 20 James Galway- Annie’s Song 20 Marshall Hain- Dancing in the City 20 A Taste of Honey- Boogie Oogie Oogie 20 David Essex- Oh What a Circus 20 The Cars- My Best Friend’s Girl 20 Bee Gees- Too Much Heaven 20 Racey- Lay Your Love on Me 20 The Three Degrees- Woman in Love 20 Lene Lovich- Lucky Number 20 The Sex Pistols- Something Else/Friggin’ in the Riggin’ 20 Boney M.- Hooray! Hooray! It’s a Holi-Holiday 20 The Sex Pistols- C’mon Everybody 20 The Dooleys- Wanted 20 ABBA- Angeleyes/Voulez-Vous 20 The Bellamy Brothers- If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me 20 Sad Café- Every Day Hurts 20 ABBA- Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) 14 Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley- If I Had Words 14 Frankie Valli- Grease 14 The Barron Knights- A Taste of Aggro 14 Dean Friedman- Lucky Stars -6 This is the start of the golden years. But there's also some real cringe stuff.

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Fri 7 Jun 50 John Newman — Love Me Again 44 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 40 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe 39 Florence & The Machine — Spectrum 39 Coldplay — Paradise 38 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky 37 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker 35 Lorde — Royals -6 34 Little Mix — Wings 34 Lily Allen — Somewhere Only We Know 33 Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E — Need U (100 Percent) 32 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball 30 Avicii — Wake Me Up 29 Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX — I Love It +4 29 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium 27 Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa — Payphone 27 Jessie J — Domino 25 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love 25 Rihanna — Diamonds 23 Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin — Don’t You Worry Child 23 Avicii Vs. Nicky Romero — I Could Be The One 23 Fun ft. Janelle Monae — We Are Young 21 DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora — Hot Right Now 21 Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith — La La La 21 Will.I.Am ft. Eva Simons — This Is Love 20 Cover Drive — Twilight 20 Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch — Sweet Nothing 20 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night 20 Ellie Goulding — Burn 20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through 20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control 20 OneRepublic — Counting Stars 19 Katy Perry — Part Of Me 18 Ne-Yo — Let Me Love You 16 Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande — Beneath Your Beautiful 14 The Saturdays ft. Sean Paul — What About Us

Somebody from another country posting on Twitter noted that Sunak left early "leaving Grant Shapps as the UK representative". This person apparently oblivious to the presence of the King, the Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal - but still, it's a very bad look.

I was at the 40th D Day anniversary commemorations in Normandy. Believe it or not, at the time it was being touted as the last big anniversary as there wouldn't be many left by the 50th! Utter nonsense, as I thought at the time. Many of the D Day veterans were only about 60. I can't believe it was 40 years ago. Feel old no, I don't. I feel just the same as I did then.

Not this industry, it's the oldest one of all! This was long before the internet.

IMO the worst one left is the inferior ABBA song.

https://x.com/wat_thee_deuce_/status/1798280481676

The only thing I've turned on the TV for in months is Inside No 9, and then the wonderful film 'A Foreign Field' which happened to be on BBC4 after it and which I hadn't seen for years. Go to iplayer and watch it! It will make you laugh a lot and cry a bit, and you will never forget it.

Samr here, but they won't embed for me when I post one.

I don't think the mintage has been released yet for the Coronation 50p, but the QEII Memorial 50p mintage was 9,600,000 so there should be plenty of those about. The Royal Mint don't make it easy to find info about circulating coins on their website, but I tracked it down eventually. https://www.royalmint.com/corporate/circulating-coin/uk-currency/mintages/50-pence/

Why the fuck were Sunak and his missus at the D Day commemoration? He isn't the Prime Minister now.

My old boss, always extremely un-PC, used to say "I don't know why you girls are wasting your time here; you're all sitting on a fortune."

I was until I realised it's some US actor I've never heard of, and not the British author and journalist.

Two words. Stephen Hawking.

Same goes for me, but I've never heard of the bloke!

Well, Cameron's a local boy like I said, but Coutinho was hand-holding in Hungerford the other day, so yes. He can promise absolutely anything , in the confident knowledge that he won't have to do any of it.

Thu 6 Jun 57 David Bowie - Sound and Vision 43 Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love 36 ABBA - Money, Money, Money 27 The Four Seasons — Silver Star +4 22 David Dundas - Jeans On  -6 11 Mike Oldfield - Portsmouth 10 Manuel and the Music of the Mountains - Rodrigo’s Guitar Concerto de Aranjuez

Thu 6 Jun 49 John Newman — Love Me Again 44 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 43 Lily Allen — Somewhere Only We Know 38 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe 38 Florence & The Machine — Spectrum 37 Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E — Need U (100 Percent) 36 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky 35 Coldplay — Paradise 35 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker 33 Little Mix — Wings 33 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball 31 Lorde — Royals -6 29 Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX — I Love It +4 29 Avicii — Wake Me Up 28 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium 28 Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin — Don’t You Worry Child 27 Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa — Payphone 27 Jessie J — Domino 24 Rihanna — Diamonds 23 Fun ft. Janelle Monae — We Are Young 22 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love 22 Avicii Vs. Nicky Romero — I Could Be The One 21 OneRepublic — Counting Stars 21 DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora — Hot Right Now 21 Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith — La La La 21 Will.I.Am ft. Eva Simons — This Is Love 20 Cover Drive — Twilight 20 Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch — Sweet Nothing 20 Macklemore ft. Ryan Lewis & Wankz — Thrift Shop 20 The Saturdays ft. Sean Paul — What About Us 20 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night 20 Ellie Goulding — Burn 20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through 20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control 19 Katy Perry — Part Of Me 18 Ne-Yo — Let Me Love You 14 Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande — Beneath Your Beautiful 14 Gabrielle Aplin — The Power Of Love

I've just seen again one of my favourite films on BBC4 - quite by chance, channel surfing after Inside No 9 finished. I mentioned the film not so long ago in a conversation about Jeanne Moreau. A Foreign Field is about a group of people visiting Normandy on the 50th anniversary of D Day. It is a character-driven comedy and very funny, but also very moving. It was first shown on BBC in the 1990s. I've never seen it since. Stellar cast including Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Lauren Bacall, Jeanne Moreau. Do try and catch it on iplayer if you can, it's only on for a month. It's mostly hilarious but Alec Guinness's character will break your heart. You will probably guess the ending as I did first time round, but it still had me in tears again. In a good way - it's not depressing. A really lovely film that's rarely shown. IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106948/?ref_=tt_urv