Summary: The song this week is a track from my album "Stars Over 45" which features light hearted looks at some of our legendary celebs...it is called "The Ballad Of Una Stubbs".....and is a tribute to the lady who has always been everybody's sweetheart....I actually sent this song to her and she phoned me up and thanked me....cool or what.....she was really sweet.....the album did very well and is available from my website www.donwoods.co.uk I watched the ITV news last Friday morning from 8 to 8.30.....during which time there were three female presenters sitting side by side...Charlotte Hawkins...Kate Garraway and Ranvia Singh....they then brought on two more women to discuss an advertisement placed in a newspaper by a restaurant requiring an "attractive " lady waitress....how dare anyone do this!!!....looks should have NOTHING to do with it !!!.....said a collection of women caked in makeup with expensive hairdos ...all this sexist garbage is wearing a bit thin....then they bring on another woman actress to discuss her part in a TV drama then it's over to another woman for the weather...so there you are ... gender equality....I might invent a game for that programme called "Spot The Bloke"....I doubt if anyone would win it. ....in fact I hate to admit it but I'm beginning to like Piers Morgan ... at least he livens the proceedings up...and I wrote a letter to a magazine slating him and I got ten quid....so at Least I owe him that....love him or hate him he is compulsive viewing. I had to laugh at a recent top notch horse racing meeting.....a 50 to one outsider won a race and after everyone had been paid out (worldwide) they discovered it was the wrong horse....apparently the stable boy had put the saddle on the wrong horse...DOH!!...I bet he was popular with the thousands of bookies......and our ladies won the cricket world cup...I think....it earned a 2 minute mention on the news....which says it all....talented as they may be I'm afraid here there is very little interest in ladies cricket. There is a big outcry from the Royals regarding the broadcasting of Princess Diana's secret tapes which Channel 4 are putting out next Sunday....the Palace is trying to put a stop to it...which means EVERYONE will be watching it....there are mixed feelings from the public...why I don't know...as it has been on YouTube for ages and it has been broadcast in America...so what's the problem?....they recently had the two sons talking about her which has obviously started the ball rolling.....personally I think if you don't agree with it don't watch it......apparently the BBC had it lined up some years ago but the Palace put a blocker on it......as I've always said it's US and THEM....always was always will be. I have been watching with fascination the recent World War One features on the telly.....they have archive film of these poor young men in the trenches dodging bullets....it is impossible for my generation to even imagine what they went through....knowing that any minute you could be killed....as thousands were...and what for?...a total waste of life.........I have nothing but the utmost admiration for the likes of soldiers and police and firemen who put their lives at risk on a regular basis....and for a fraction of the money paid to our "brave" newsreaders...
