Bananas were on sale in Britain for the first time today in 1633. They are excellent, professional readers will tell you, for preventing growling or rumbling tummies, fatal for sound recordings (the rumbling, that is, not the bananas). An EU directive tried to straighten them out some years ago but it didn't work because the directive came from Brussels (which are round and green and responsible for much of the rumbling mentioned above).
In other news ...
Cairo Fred was born today in 1932. He is better known as Omar Sharif and is one of the world's best backgammon players (as Lord Lucan was, but Mr Sharif hasn't murdered his children's nanny or done a runner). Remember Omar coming out of that heat haze on a camel in Lawrence of Arabia? Magic.
