Hello, its Peter here and welcome to the Levy Letter and the start of another week. I hope your weekend was good, whatever you were up to. And just before I start, I would like to thank everyone who made such a tremendous contribution in our part of the country to Children In Need on Friday. There was great, great support, so thanks very much indeed for all of it.
Just a reminder that there is still plenty of time before the new year to get hold of your 2006 calendar! The money raised from the sale of these calendars, will still go to Children In Need and the calendars are still on sale. Call into any one of our receptions in Grimsby, Lincoln or Hull or call into our two buses BBC Radio Humberside bus or BBC Radio Lincolnshire bus. So pop in and get a calendar! Theyre £5. If you want to send off for one, then theyre £6 and make the cheque payable to the BBC. Send the cheque to BBC Look North Calendar, Queens Court, Queens Gardens, Hull, HU1 3RH and well send a calendar to you by return of post! Events One or two people are asking if I could mention events that are coming up. Just a quick note here. This one comes from Beckingham from Marion. She says, Could you please give us a bit of a plug? Weve had a really hard time trying to raise funds to improve our village hall. We lost our last pub in 2000 and the hall is the only place where we can have big events. So just a quick mention to the Beckingham 2nd Victorian Christmas Market! Its on Sunday 4th December between 11am and 3pm at the Green in Beckingham. So all the very best to them and enjoy the Victorian Christmas Market on Sunday 4th December! Stress I touched on stress last week, but its in the news again this week! Stress in the workplace is becoming the biggest threat to business, its being claimed. Staff suffering from the condition are much more likely to need long-term sick leave than those with back pain. In a survey of company personnel directors, seven times as many cited stress as the main cause of absenteeism rather than back problems. Leading psychologists have said that stress left thousands of people unable to cope. Twenty years ago, we were a nine to five culture. They said that people took lunch breaks, they had job security, but now things are very different. People have a huge work load to cope with and jobs are never for life. We work the longest hours in Europe and most families have two working parents and stress is the result. Well, thats cheered us up for a Monday morning hasnt it? Angela Its nearly thirty years after she famously kicked her way through the Morecambe and Wise show. Ive got it on DVD at home. The veteran news presenter, Angela Ripon, can you believe, is making her all-singing, all-dancing, theatrical debut. Angela is sixty-one according the paper, but has been signed up to tread the boards in a national tour of the Cole Porter musical, Anything Goes. The former BBC news reader is to play the refined widow Evangeline Harcourt in the show, which will be toured across the UK from January to June next year. So I dont know if its on our way to our part of the country, but Im sure it wont be too far away. No doubt Jonathan and Marcus on BBC Radio Humbersides Westenders show will tell us more about that. Angela Ripon, then, will be making her stage debut in Cole Porters musical Anything Goes in the New Year! Ill be looking out for that! Restaurants Restaurants that use baffling and pretentious terms to describe their food were accused yesterday of causing menu anxiety amongst their diners. I think I get that when I go out! More and more people are becoming frightened of choosing a meal because they have no idea what theyre ordering and many people feel too intimidated by snooty waiters to ask to have the menus explained. Most Britons are blissfully ignorant of many well-known dishes and ingredients. 30% of diners said they had no idea that foie gras was made from goose liver, while half did not know that potato dauphinoise was creamy potato bake. Six out of ten were not aware that endive was a leaf vegetable and less that half knew that chevre cheese is made from goats milk according to the survey. So there you are, most of us think that menus in restaurants are pretentious and off-putting. And I have to say, that I agree with them on this one. Write If you want to drop me a line today or anytime, email me, it will come straight to me and let me just remind you of the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can write to me on any subject. Also if youve got some pictures, which you think I should see, or which youd like to see on the programme on the Big Screen, then send those in to me as well. Thats all from Mondays Levy Letter. Join me tonight at 6.30pm on BBC1 for all the days news and of course Paul will have the weather. We will also be talking to one of the stars of Last of the Summer Wine tonight ahead of Tom Owen, Bill Owens son appearing in pantomime in Grimsby. Join me tonight then and in the meantime have a very good day. Take care, bye 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.
