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Tue 28-5-24 69 R. Dean Taylor - There’s A Ghost in My House 35 Lulu - The Man Who Sold The World 34 Cozy Powell - Dance With the Devil +4 33 Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony - The Hustle 30 The Wombles - Remember You’re a Womble 25 Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run 25 The Drifters - There Goes My First Love 18 Kenny - The Bump 16 Slade - Bangin’ Man 06 Slade - Everyday 01 Smokie - If You Think You Know How to Love Me -6 ...

Mon 27-5-24 63 R. Dean Taylor - There’s A Ghost in My House 37 Lulu - The Man Who Sold The World 32 Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony - The Hustle  30 The Wombles - Remember You’re a Womble 30 Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run 30 Cozy Powell - Dance With the Devil +4 27 The Drifters - There Goes My First Love 19 Smokie - If You Think You Know How to Love Me -3 19 Kenny - The Bump -3 18 Slade - Bangin’ Man 10 Slade - Everyday 07 Fox - Only You Can

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Astrologer and clairvoyant Eva Petulengro, who for many years told fortunes on the Palace Pier and Brighton seafront, has died aged 85. She also wrote a bit about travelling in traditional wooden gypsy caravans.

I'm intrigued how this would work as 'children' become adults when they reach 18, and afaik, are no longer their parents' responsibility. Still, with the Tories chances of regaining power somewhat diminished, they could promise everyone a unicorn shitting rainbows without ever have to worry about the practicalities of implementation.

Sun 26-5-24 57 R. Dean Taylor - There’s A Ghost in My House 35 Lulu - The Man Who Sold The World 35 Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony - The Hustle 33 The Drifters - There Goes My First Love 28 Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run 28 The Wombles - Remember You’re a Womble 26 Cozy Powell - Dance With the Devil +4 23 Smokie - If You Think You Know How to Love Me 23 Kenny - The Bump 20 Slade - Bangin’ Man 18 Fox - Only You Can 16 Slade - Everyday 14 Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died -6 12 The Rubettes - Juke Box Jive

Westward TV/TSW continuity announcer Roger Shaw (Roger Ollerearnshaw) reported dead aged 92.

Straight onto the list of never-selected.

Nearly missed it - Stanley Baxter is 98 today.

What number, what update? I resize by pasting the image and clicking on "source" and editing the html. Unedited: Resized: (height=300) Resized (width=100) Once the source is displayed I find the img tag and before the closing ">" insert width=300 (or your favourite width, or indeed height e.g. height=450) and click OK on the window. This is for Windoes PC. See @En Passant's post above for how I do it on a phone.

Conclusive proof that McDonald's gives you cancer.

Something new this time round - to me at least - are candidates posting on Txitter appealing for campaign funds in order to fund their re-election campaigns. Labour candidates obviously (presumably the Cons campaigns are paid for by big business/independent wealth).

But busier... https://x.com/theiaincameron/status/1793609189207814346

24/5/2024 43 R. Dean Taylor - There’s A Ghost in My House 34 Cozy Powell - Dance With the Devil +3 30 Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony - The Hustle 28 The Drifters - There Goes My First Love 26 The Wombles - Remember You’re a Womble 25 Lulu - The Man Who Sold The World 23 Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died 21 Smokie - If You Think You Know How to Love Me 21 Kenny - The Bump 21 The Rubettes - Juke Box Jive 20 Slade - Everyday 20 Slade - Bangin’ Man 20 Johnny Bristol - Hang On In There Baby 20 Fox - Only You Can 19 Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run +1 18 Bay City Rollers - Summerlove Sensation 18 Peter Shelley - Love Me Love My Dog 15 Hot Chocolate - Emma 10 Bay City Rollers - Money Honey 03 The Stylistics - Sing Baby Sing -6 03 Mud - The Secrets That You Keep A +1 for Band on the Run by way of an acknowledgement that it was the last decent thing he did (Until The Frog Chorus thing, obviously).

I'm not paying £20 to fall asleep watching it in a cinema when I can do that quite comfortably at home.

At least Steve Harney has got nothing to worry about. Former Bradford player (if you can call him that - 14 appearances in 10 seasons) dies aged 73.

There is a lot of dross - maybe not as much as TQR thinks - many of whom will/have deservedly leave/left early, but I've always hated The Stylistics. High-pitched vocals, funny suits and cringeworthy choreography that makes even Boyzone look good.

34 R Dean Taylor - There’s A Ghost in My House 30 Cozy Powell - Dance With the Devil +4 25 The Wombles - Remember You’re a Womble 24 The Drifters - There Goes My First Love 24 Bay City Rollers - Summerlove Sensation 24 Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - The Hustle 24 Lulu - The Man Who Sold the World 21 Kenny - The Bump 20 Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run 20 Hot Chocolate - Emma 20 Slade - Everyday 20 Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died 20 Slade - Bangin’ Man 20 Johnny Bristol - Hang On In There Baby 20 The Rubettes - Juke Box Jive 20 Mud - The Secrets That You Keep 20 Fox - Only You Can 20 The Moments and Whatnauts - Girls 20 Peter Shelley - Love Me Love My Dog 20 Smokie - If You Think You Know How to Love Me 14 The Stylistics - Sing Baby Sing -6 14 Bay City Rollers - Money Honey

Is this the most Coldwar Steve photo without actually being a Coldwar Steve photo? https://x.com/TomLarkinSky/status/1793608546015490381

Think of a number... 86. Johnny Ball is 86 today.

Elon Musk - in a further attempt to drive people off the platform formerly known as Twitter, he's now made "Lights Out" mode the default setting. Starts up in Lights out every time I restart. I hate it now more than ever.

David Wilkie for the List of the Missed; picked last in 2020. (Put here for completeness, and also because I didn't see it had already been posted in the Olympic thread)

Slipped and fell in the shower! 'kinell!

I'm assuming this is for numismatists and the like, rather than folk who just throw their excess change in a pot to save for Christmas; I have randomly 'collected' a few unusual coins over the years, such as a couple of the unimetal commemorative £2 coins, as well as a few pre-decimal coins that people have thrown in collecting tins. Nothing of any real value, but I do have a couple of the Kew Gardens 50p coins. Like a lot of things, they've been put away somewhere 'safe' and I have no idea where they are now.

Updates done for Dabney Coleman, Tony O'Reilly Chico Hamilton Frank Ifield Gerry Collins Karl-Heinz Schnellinger Bud Anderson Jan A.P. Kaczmarek which I think is all reported/qualifying celebs I missed. ( Unless, of course, you know different And (I nearly forgot) thanks to those folks keeping an eye on things while I was away.