Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Tuesdays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and I hope you will be able to join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Last night on the programme, I was talking to the playwright John Godber and Jane Thornton. Husband and wife of course and well done to them on their recent success. Theyve done so well in bringing not one, but two BAFTAs to Hull for their production, which is filmed partly at Sydney Smith School in Hull called Oddsquad. So well done to John and Jane, two lovely people. It was great to have them on the programme last night and it was great actually to see and hold a BAFTA in my own hand! And I can tell you, they are very heavy! So well done to John and Jane.
Now tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm, join me if you can for all the days news and for the all important weather forecast of course from the diminutive weather man. Also tonight, weve got the special guest, Sir Bob Geldof ahead of Sir Bobs visit to Hull at the end of the week. So join me tonight if you can. Write Thanks for the emails on a variety of subjects. Dont forget if you want to drop me a line and get in touch with me straight away, you can. The address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, were looking for pictures still for our Big Screen and also if you or someone you know has got a problem or an issue that you think we might be able to tackle on the programme in Leave it to Levy then get in touch. Drop me a line, send me all the details and dont forget to leave a contact telephone number with me. Christmas Gifts I was saying a couple of days back that there are some fairly unusual items on sale at the moment in the magazines, especially on Sundays. I was mentioning last week, the wonderful DVD of a fireplace. If you havent got an open fire, if you live in a flat like me, then you can put the DVD on the television and then youve got a fireplace in the lounge. Well, what about this one? This was in the paper this morning. Its a gadget that keeps butter as spreadable as margarine, and is about to change breakfast time forever. It looks like an ordinary butter dish, but it keeps its contents at a constant 18.5 degrees Celsius, which is the ideal temperature for butter, thanks to a battery powered base. The makers claim that the Butter Wizard means the end to trying to scrape enough butter off a rock-hard block to smear onto crumbling toast. Well, sixteen million households buy butter and sales reached £363 000 last year. Thats up 15% at the same time that margarine and spread sales! , which I thought were more popular, actually dropped by 5%. So there we are. It goes on sale next month. It will increase consumption even further of butter. Its called the Butter Wizard and its £34.95 and the butter will be kept at a constant 18.5 degrees Celsius. So there you are. If you want to buy your loved one a butter gadget for Christmas, then be prepared for the mouthful youll get back from them, Id imagine! Passion They say that true love lasts a lifetime, but according to scientists today that intoxicating, head spinning feeling that comes when you first clap eyes on the love of your life doesnt last quite that long. In fact, they say that the chemical in the brain, which is responsible for that first flash of passion and of romance, wears off after just twelve months. Researchers found the effect was the same even among couples, who were still passionately in love. They studied a group of men and women, aged between eighteen and thirty-one, some of whom had just fallen in love, some who were in long term relationships and others who were single. Among those in the first throes of passion, levels of a protein called nerve growth factor, which cause those tell-tale palpitations, sweaty palms and butterflies, rocketed. But in couples, who had been together for more than a year, levels had fallen back to amounts found in single people. So there you are. That first frisson of passion wit! h your lover, will only last a year. After that its all downhill. Im A Celebrity Dont forget, Im still looking for your thoughts and emails on Im A Celebrity. Well have a little round up of them later in the week. Ive got quite a few here. Now, I didnt see last nights programme, but I know that Tommy Cannon has gone, but I dont know who went last night. No doubt someone will tell me from the office. Your thoughts and your views on Im A Celebrity and thank you for all your emails on this one. I wasnt going to talk about the programme, but it looks like Im being forced that way! Of course, as I mentioned yesterday, Cannon and Ball are on their way to Hull as soon as they come out of the jungle well Tommys out already of course. Well, theyre coming straight to Hull for rehearsals of the Christmas pantomime Dick Whittington. I gather that Carol Thatcher actually mentioned Hull and the Hull New Theatre pantomime in the jungle the other night. Also in the paper this morning, I havent seen this, but there was a bit of a carry on with David Dickins! ons wife supporting him after the two ladies, Carol and Judy Gooden had been moaning about David in the camp. Anyway, its all exciting stuff isnt it?! And I would love your thoughts on that. As ever, if you want to drop me a line, then you know the address. And if theres someone you know, whos not getting a Levy Letter and they would like to sign up, then direct them to one of the two addresses at the bottom of the page, click on Levy Letter and follow the instructions through. Calendar Dont forget the calendar is still on sale, the Children In Need 2006 calendar. You can get them from our receptions in Hull, Grimsby or Lincoln or from our two buses as they travel throughout our region. Theyre £5 if you can pick them up, or if you want to send us a cheque, then its £6 to cover postage and packing. Just send us a cheque made payable to the BBC for £6 to BBC Look North Calendar, Queens Court, Queens Gardens, Hull, HU1 3RH. Well thats it from Tuesdays Levy Letter. Join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Have a good day and look out for your Levy Letter tomorrow! 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.
