It was a great day for executions today. In 1555 Bishops Latimer and Ridley went to the stake in Oxford for their religious beliefs. And in 1793 'the Austrian woman', Marie Antoinette, went to the guillotine in Paris. somebody drew her in a tumbril on her way to the Place de Guerre. She was 38 and looks a hundred. How are the mighty fallen?
In other news ...
Angela Lansbury was born today in 1925. Check out (as her countrymen would say) this amazing lady - she was brilliant in The Court Jester, gorgeous in The Three Musketeers, a national treasure in Murder She Wrote. She is about to tour Australia with the great James Earl Jones in Driving Miss Daisy. And she's related to a British Labour Leader, George Lansbury.
They don't make them like her any more.
In a personal note, I would like to wish a very happy birthday to my very good friend M J Trow. I am reluctant to give his year of birth - like Cliff Richard, I suspect him of having a portrait in the attic - but he is an all round nice chap and altogether much too modest, so, Happy Birthday, M J Trow, from your staunchest fan. I have been chortling over his latest offering on the crime novel front, written with his good lady, Witch Hammer - I haven't finished it yet, having only started it yesterday but I have no idea whodunnit; always a good sign!
