September 6, 2022 ON THIS DAY
Proud mum’s ‘back to school’ gallery
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE SEPTEMBER 6, 1982
BATTle of Britain ace Sir Douglas Bader died early yesterday. He was 72. Sir Douglas, who lost both legs in a flying accident in 1931, shot down an estimated 30 German aircraft during World War II and then escaped four times as a PoW. He collapsed after addressing an RAF dinner in honour of another wartime hero, Sir Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris.
SEPTEMBER 6, 1997
elToN JoHN’S reworked version of Candle
In The Wind will become the biggest-selling single in history, say music industry experts. It will outstrip the record 3.5 million sales notched up by Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas in December 1984.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
eMIlY MAITlIS, 52. The Canadian-born, Sheffieldraised broadcaster left her £330,000-a-year job as lead presenter of BBC’s Newsnight earlier this year to launch the podcast
The News Agents. Her bombshell interview with
Prince Andrew, which led to his withdrawal from public life, is being turned into a three-part TV drama.
MACY GRAY, 55. The Grammy-winning U. S. singer- songwriter, born Natalie McIntyre, took her stage name from a mailbox she found herself lying beneath after falling off her bike as a child. Gray, best known for her hit I Try and UK No 1 album The Id, admitted she once spent a week in prison for stealing petrol.
BORN ON THIS DAY
BIllY RoSe (1899-1966). The 4 ft 11 in U.S. lyricist and impresario wrote the songs Me And My Shadow and It’s only A Paper Moon. He married actress Fanny Brice, the inspiration behind the musical Funny Girl, and olympic swimmer eleanor Holm, whom Time magazine called the world’s most beautiful athlete. Their messy divorce was known as ‘the war of the Roses’. BRIGID BeRlIN (1939-2020). The artist from New York was a close friend and collaborator of Andy Warhol, appearing in many of his films and inspiring his 1971 play Pork. She said she taped everything in her life between 1967 and 1974. She was also known for ‘a series of paintings made by dipping her breasts in paint and smearing them on paper to produce multi-hued orbs’.
ON SEPTEMBER 6 . . .
IN 1975, Rod Stewart was enjoying his third UK No 1 single, with his version of the song Sailing. IN 2019, Robert Mugabe, former prime minister and president of Zimbabwe, died, aged 95.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION: Fugleman
A) originally, an expert soldier who led drills. Nowadays, it describes a mouthpiece, cheerleader or publicist. B) A compere and a warm-up actor for TV shows.
C) A person who enjoys eating fine food, a glutton. answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED Fall on your feet:
meaning to achieve a lucky outcome from a predicament; it alludes to the supposed ability of cats to land on their feet even if they fall from a great height.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
I’m a simple man, and
I use simple materials.
LS Lowry, English painter (1887-1976)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT do you call a cow in an earthquake? a milkshake.
Guess The Definition answer: a. Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD
there’s a lot to remember on your child’s first day of school.
But one mother has added an extra task to the to-do list: taking a back-to-school photo of her daughter to mark every year of her education.
Dagny Barnett, 54, has snapped her daughter, Chloe, in the same pose since she started nursery in 2010.
standing side- on in her uniform outside their home in redhill, surrey, Chloe’s latest picture marks the 13th year of her education as she prepares for her GCses.
the pictures of Chloe – now aged
15 and heading into Year 11 – hold a special significance for Mrs Barnett, who had seven rounds of IVF before becoming pregnant.
Describing Chloe as her ‘miracle’ child, the stay-at-home mother added: ‘Chloe’s a rainbow baby as I had a daughter at 24 weeks who sadly died, then the following year girl-boy twins who sadly came prematurely and died too. Chloe was our sunshine after the storm.’
As well as the change in blazer, Mrs Barnett said the photos show Chloe’s transformation from ‘a cheeky little redhead with an adorable lisp to a beautiful redhead... with the world at her feet’.
she added: ‘I used to stress and worry about her doing well and getting everything right and onto the next reading level at junior school, but she was book adverse and hated doing anything which required effort. But I’ve now realised that children all blossom at different times and she’s impressed me with her resilience and determination in her school work.
‘We all want our kids to become high flyers and successful... but as long as they’re happy and safe that’s the most important thing.’