(Low taxation**)
She’s so
genuinely and sensitively pro; he can be beaten, as a host, only by my mom; all
in all, what great radio! Alison Moyet was a guest on Terry Wogan’s weekend slot on BBC Radio 2. Mid-way through Don’t
go she stopped . “Terry, would it
be complete rubbish if we started that again? He [the pianist] went wrong, then
I went wrong and this is live radio…”, she said. “You can have the whole
afternoon if you like”, replied Wogan. (Unfortunately she didn’t take him up on
the offer).
P.S. I think
the moment is close when I start going to meetings of TOGs. It'll probably happen
soon after I’ve joined CAMRA, which I decided to do some decade ago, but whenever I am close to sending off a filled membership form, I recount the cash in the
pocket and realise I have enough only for another couple of pints – the bloody VAT and
excise duty on beer is just ridiculous here (which CAMRA is doing a great job of not letting you forget about).
Anyway, if you see me one day with a pint of the local best, in the company of a bunch of other fuddy-duddies, laughing my head silly at jokes cracked by an Irish gentleman with a voice, style and gentleness that could easily pass off for a hallway to some pub in Heaven, it'll mean I’ve gone completely native; and bonkers, locally.
Anyway, if you see me one day with a pint of the local best, in the company of a bunch of other fuddy-duddies, laughing my head silly at jokes cracked by an Irish gentleman with a voice, style and gentleness that could easily pass off for a hallway to some pub in Heaven, it'll mean I’ve gone completely native; and bonkers, locally.
*on 18. June 1961 (Did you know her first given name is Geneviève? (Her dad is/was French).
**A thirst for
