Will life return to normal in Ambridge?

REGULAR readers (if I have any, see next item) will know my hang up about the Assisted Bathing ads in the commercial breaks in the ITV afternoon quiz “Tenable”.

Things do not get any better and the continuity people need to sharpen up as the girl who appears to have more baths and showers than anyone else sometimes seems to combine them.

She can be seen entering with a towel wrapped round her but then completes her ablutions wearing a robe which was not evident anywhere earlier. Not only that, while in the cubicle she is seen with a drink or a book she did not take in with her and neither item can be seen to have been left inside.

All this raises the question whether she has a shower or a bath as the water from the former never seems to hit her, she is not seen drying herself and leaves no wet footsteps in her wake.

Geography gaffe

Before I go any further I have a couple of apologies to make, missing last week and then an error in my previous column.

Had an email from Harry Whitehead of Market Bosworth pointing out that the River Amazon is in South America and not where I said.

This is the point where I would congratulate him for spotting my deliberate mistake but that is not the case, just an example of how bad I am at world geography!

Harry said he believed I must have been inundated with messages highlighting the gaffe and adding it would prove how well read this column is.

Oh that both statements were true but he was the only one to notice it, so well done to him.

At least I now know of two people who follow my ramblings in this column.

Famous form?

One programme I shall be watching tonight is the latest in the Coronation Street legends series on Roy Cropper as the actor who plays him David Neilson and I have form together and it is about my only claim to fame.

We were both in the same class at Garendon Secondary Modern school, Loughborough before my family moved back here and a photo of the form appeared in the local paper there.

Then his name was, if I remember correctly, David Wilson and I cannot recall that he seemed to have any dramatic aspirations.

Archers again

Keeping with soaps I see that members of the cast of Radio 4’s “The Archers” are socially distanced recording episodes to replace the dreadful monologues which were introduced when the Covid pandemic lockdown restrictions meant the actors could not get into the studios.

It is another small sign that things are gradually getting back to what will become a new “normal” in so many ways but how many listeners, I wonder, will return after the break as it is said once you have or have not done something for a month or two it becomes a habit.

What will the “everyday story of country folk” be like as prior to the lockdown Ambridge was the only place not to have been affected by corona virus?