"Wilma! I'm Home!"

Once again, hardly anything interesting has happened for most of today and it will probably continue that way for the rest of the week. Especially as a few of those at "The Big Gay House" have decided to turn into party poopers and as a result tomorrow's festivities won't be happening at all. Hopefully they'll be a few "dizzy water" drinks
here in Canterbury to get me through tomorrow whilst watching Jools's annual Hootenanny "HOOTENANNY!".

As for today I saw the first movie of "The Flintstones" on television earlier today starring John Goodman and Rick Moranis as Fred and Barney respectively as well as a few other people making early appearances such as Rosie O'Donnell as Betty, Kyle McLachlan as the malicious Cliff Vandercave, and Halle Berry as his secretary "Sharon Stone".

Also appearing were "The BC-52s" who perfomed their own version of the Flintstones theme tune and one of their specially composed songs for the film.

This reminds me of Jonathan Ross's New Years Eve special into 2003 where him and his guests including Alan Titchmarsh, Harry Hill and Dale Winton were talking about music and Harry revealed how he enjoyed singing the shows title to it's theme tune
i.e. This Is Your Life, Mastermind etc.

I've mentioned before that Jonathan Ross's thrice nightly Channel 4 series "Tonight With Jonathan Ross" was in my opinion another tune that fell into the category.

But anyway, Jonathan then went onto point out that Dale didn't have a signature tune that people associated him with so he suggested one that went;

"Winton, It's Dale Winton! Have a yabba dabba doo time, A dabba doo time,
We'll have a gay old time!"

I know it's childish but nowhere near as bad compared to what was to come five years later.

I may spend another night on iPlayer watching amongst other things
(well "Most Annoying" lists) the extended version of last weeks HIGNFY Christmas special with guests Noddy Holder and Frank Skinner who's become a welcome addition to many comedy panel shows this year. One of the highlights being Brian Blessed's surprise appearance and presenter Alexander Armstrong cutting him off.

On a lower note, today saw the death of musician Freddie Hubbard who played trumpet on Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage" album in 1965 as well as composing and performing a lot of his own work.

Definitely one of the most reconisable trumpeters in the jazz genre.

RIP Freddie - 1938-2008