Hannah Howe

If you are looking for someone to support in the football World Cup (assuming it goes ahead)

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People were happier in the 1970s, surveys suggest. Lots of difficulties, that’s true, but good things happening too.

Radio highlights: Early Morning Tea - play. The New World of the Amerindians.

Weather: mainly dry, sunny intervals. Outlook - little change. 9c, 48f

“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.” - Elbert Hubbard (1859 - 1915).

Television highlights: Kelvin Hall Circus - from Glasgow. Here and Now - boatyard. BBC2 test broadcast - Who Cares?

Agony Aunt. “Please help - my wife is mad about the Beatles and she’s 43.” Jane Adams’ reply, “So is my grandmother, and she’s 83.”

Books. Number One in fiction - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carrè. Non-Fiction - The Concise Oxford Dictionary.

At a conference on hospital food, Health Minister Anthony Barber spoke in praise of mangelwurzels. He spoke of his time when he lived on a diet of mangelwurzels in a Polish prison camp. He added that the standard service of food to patients needed to be raised.

He said, “There’s a particularly vicious species of horsefly in Bottom Spinney. They really can bite. I will shift a load of manure down to the edge of the spinney to encourage the flies. They will make things pretty uncomfortable for these nudists.”

Nudists who want to build a sunbathing camp at Bottom Spinney- already being called Bare Bottom Spinney - are in for a tough fight. Farmer Ernest Shiner has announced a campaign to defeat the project.

Joey - short for Josephine had trouble laying an outsized egg, so vet David Blackmore of Melton Mowbray carried out a Cesarian on the budgie, which was successful. Mr Blackmore and Joey will attend the Small Animal Veterinary Association conference, where members will discuss budgie ailments.

Independent Television interrupted the opening of The Plane Makers at 9.13pm to announce the royal birth in a newsflash. The BBC did not interrupt its programme.

Wednesday 11 March 1964

It’s a boy for the Queen! The baby, her fourth, was born at 8.20pm last night at Buckingham Palace. The new baby will be third in line of succession to the Throne.

On This Day in Wales

11 March 1899

Honesty Rewarded

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Elizabeth Taylor is on my family tree. Not that one. My Elizabeth married John Teek on 22 January 1758 in Saint James’, Westminster. Interestingly, Elizabeth owned property in her own name, in Westminster.

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Whenever I see him, I always think ”here’s someone who is scared of the truth.”

Snippets from the 1700s

Richard Brakenburgh - May Queen Festival

Oil on canvas, 1700

The company clerks 🤷‍♀️

Television highlights: Big Night Out with Adam Faith and Lionel Blair. Second City Reports - an ironical look at Britain today. BBC2 test broadcast - Spare That Tree.

Radio highlights: Military Bandstand. Hancock’s Half-Hour.

Weather: cloudy. Outlook - mostly dry and sunny. 8c, 46f

“When BBC announcers pronounce Llanelli it comes out in weird and wonderful ways. Yet, these same announcers go to great lengths to correctly pronounce place names in China, Russia and Hungary. Are they taking the Mickey?” - H Williams, Tondu, Glamorgan.

Next week, Mandy flies to Milan for another cabaret engagement. Is she worried about the reaction? “Not at all. They are sensible over there.”

Mandy Rice-Davies has been ordered to leave Turkey because her nightclub act is “immoral”. She complained, “Immoral! My dress stretched from my neck to my ankles. I sang songs like An Englishman Needs Time and A Lady Loves to Love.”

General Gilbert Moncton has criticised the BBC over the depiction of Army officers in plays. He said, “I will give a bottle of champagne to the first writer of a BBC play in which the sexual life of the Army chaps is normal.”

FA Cup Sixth Round Second Replay: Manchester United 5 Sunderland 1. Half-time 0 - 0. Leeds will play a friendly with Juventus on 8 April.

The good name of Rugby Union cannot afford further black marks like the shameful Irish-Welsh brawl in Dublin. Players twice guilty of foul-play of any description must be given their marching orders by the referee.

Every generation produces its own pop music. Some of it is good, some bad. Nobody pretends that the Mersey Sound is immortal melody, but it is a happy, healthy, harmless noise. Today’s youngsters have found a new Beat, and a new wackiness. And why not? They are new youngsters.

Tuesday 10 March 1964

A US report says that 35,000 American soldiers have been put in the wrong jobs, wasting more that £17,143,000. For example, highly-trained helicopter pilots were given jobs as lifeguards, dog handlers and company clerks.

So many great features in Countdown each week. Catch up with the latest issue here.

You can tell this was written some time ago because the reporter is interested in facts.

On This Day in Wales (and Britain)

10 March 1928

Women Rule the Roost

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