I was going to tell you a long story about how I needed to rip out about 6 rows of the camisole last night, and have managed to end up, 24 hours later, 20 rows further back than I was this time last night.
I was going to shake my fists at the weather, which prevented my sister from coming and spending the day with me.
I was going to grit my teeth over the DVDs which didn't turn up today as they should have done.
Then I switched on Radio 4 for 'The Archers', and caught the 7 o'clock news, and an item which put my bad day into its proper context.
Linda Smith, stand-up comedian, actor, Radio 4 panellist and writer, died today of ovarian cancer. She was 48.
She had a deceptively quiet style, with, as Mark Steel said today, 'an air of Englishness' about her. She could sum up a situation in one pithy remark and put people in their places without their ever realising she had attacked them. She wrote a subplot on one of her shows about having a poltergeist with ME which still makes me laugh every time I remember it.
She went too soon.
3 comments:
Well said Heather, Linda Smith was brilliant.
Love,
Vicki
I know what you mean. I was gobsmacked. A real loss.
Oh indeed Heather she was a loss.Holly adores Mark Steele b.t.w .Angie Holly's mum
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