On the bus on the way home I've kept noticing that there's a blue plaque on a housing block near the traffic lights. I've often wondered what it was for. Today we were stuck in a traffic jam just beside it so I could have a read.
I'm irrationally pleased that it's in honour of Terry Hall and Lenny the Lion.
Hurray for Terry and Lenny!!!
ReplyDeleteWell, you shouldn't feel irrational or even "embawassed" at such pleasure.
ReplyDeleteI was hoping it would be that Catholic writer of the last century - you know who I mean. He was into Catholicism and divorce. MTL can't remember either.
ReplyDeleteNot Graham Greene. Oh bother!
Orange. Clockwork Orange. Anthony Burgess. Hurray!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Keith Harris's Orville gets jealous about this sort of thing.
ReplyDeleteThat takes me back!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Terry Hall is put out at sharing with Lenny or whether Lenny is bothered that he isn't top billing? A very difficult situation for the council to handle. They would be very pleased to have brought about your pleasure - sort of thing worth writing to the local paper about.
ReplyDeleteI thought you had to be dead to get a blue plaque? RIP Terry the Lion and Lenny Hall
ReplyDeleteHurray, but what about Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop?
ReplyDeletei had to goggle them, sugar! how delightful they have a plaque! xoxoxo
ReplyDelete@MdF...i had no idea shari lewis & lampchop made it across the pond, darlin! i loved lambchop's voice! xoxoo
Sweet! I can just about remember Lenny the lion from my English childhood; I think mostly because I had an uncle called Len.
ReplyDeleteI had forgotten he had ever existed until this moment :)
ReplyDeleteYay!
ReplyDeletePat: Lenny the Lion trumps Anthony Burgess any day of the week. (-:
Gadjo: you have to be dead (or a member of the MCC) to be eligible a blue plaque these days.
Kelloggsville: hello and welcome!
NotaBene: Terry Hall died three years ago, sadly.
Madame DeF: I hadn't realised that Shari Lewis had passed on so long ago. Another childhood crush...
Savannah: this is an educational blog (-: