Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Thursdays Levy Letter. And I hope your days going well.
It certainly should be as according to a new survey, we are the fifth happiest country - happy with out lot in the world! Australia, America, Egypt and India are ahead of us; theyre even happier than we are, but were number five ahead of many other countries, including Spain, Hungary, France, Italy, Russia and at the bottom of the list is Hong Kong. Were happier than all of those. Well, I hope your days going well. As I say, despite it being a dull Autumn day, I mentioned this last night when I was talking to Paul, that you always have to look on the bright side of life, especially when forecasting the weather. Where forecasters on the TV had previously said chilly in areas, now theyve got to say warm for most. For heavy rain, just say rain. For isolated storms say hot and sunny for most. For occasional showers, say mainly dry. This is all to make us feel happier with our lot. Thats the brief to all our weather forecasters apparently. Tonight at 6.30pm Join me tonight on BBC1 at half past six when Ill have all the days news and Paul will have the weather forecast, of course being all optimistic and up-beat. And also tonight, as well as having the days news, I shall be talking to Jan Ravens. Jan is one of the stars of the Dead Ringers team that does all the voices including a very accurate Cilla Black. Well, Jans in town tonight to do the stage version of Dead Ringers at the City Hall. Well see her a little bit later on. Competition Thanks for a tremendous response to the Jungle Book competition after I mentioned it yesterday. Just a reminder, the prize is two pairs of tickets and a chance to meet the cast of the musical The Jungle Book when it comes to Hull in a couple of weeks time. And the question is - who wrote the Jungle Book? Entries in by teatime, so just send me an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whos Reading? I mentioned at the start of the week that I dont suppose teachers read the Levy Letter and I was inundated with emails, which started a little flurry. Im a teaching assistant at a special needs school in Lincoln and would say that I have the best job in the world as the children I work with put a permanent grin on my face no matter how bad I am feeling. Thats lovely isnt it? Thats from Leslie. I wont mention her second name, in case she doesnt want it read out. And also one here that comes from Helen Day, Peter, Im emailing in to say that not only teachers and school librarians receive your Levy Letter, but also school dinner ladies! I enjoy reading your letter every day. Helen, thank you very much indeed for your email. Hairdressers There was a survey out yesterday, which I mentioned, saying that the happiest profession of the lot is hairdressing and it also says that people who take regular exercise each day and those who sing are also more likely to be happy. Theres an email from Sam, she says, In regard to your Levy Letter, Im a hairdresser. I love to sing and I enjoy walking. So she must be very happy. Sam thank you very much indeed for your email and hello to you. Depression Well from happiness to depression and it says in the paper today that snorers are at greater risk of suffering depression and marital breakdowns even though they may not realise it. Researchers have found that virtually undetectable breaks in the sleeping patterns of those with sleep apnoea are enough to cause sufferers to feel listless and irritable. Few are aware that the condition is the source of their problems and many put it down to other parts of their life. I dont think its just the snorers, is it? I think its the people who have to live with the snorers, who probably have to put up with a lot too! Comic The day before yesterday we had the sad death of Ronnie Barker. One of the great things that has occurred after this were all the wonderful tributes that have been coming in about Ronnie. One of our other great comedy legends is Eric Sykes. He got one of those life-time achievement awards and also one of those stars in the pavement in the Avenue of the Stars a couple of weeks back. Well Eric Sykes has just written his autobiography. Its called If I dont write it, nobody else will! and it was launched this week. Eric Sykes is now 82 and I read that hes almost blind and profoundly deaf, but hes still kept his brilliant comic timing. I got talking to Jon Culshaw from Dead Ringers about Eric Sykes on the programme a couple of weeks back and I found out that Eric Sykes is actually coming to Hull to do a literary lunch with his book in a couple of weeks time. It would be a great honour if we were to get Eric Sykes on the programme and we certainly are going to try. Write Dont forget if you want to drop me a line about anything at all, if youve got a story that you think may make an interesting story for Look North to be shown on the programme then drop me an email, give me the details and also a contact telephone number. That will help us. If youre going to email me, the address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thats it from me for now. Join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Have a good day, take care. Peter And for the latest news and more where you live, go to: http://bbc.co.uk/humber and http://bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the BBC Look North newsletter, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/looknorthhull/newsletter/newsletter_index.shtml, enter your email address in the unsubscribe box.
