Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Mondays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and that youll be able to join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm for all the days news and Paul will have the forecast. And our special guest tonight well, if youre interested in hairdressing, then weve got a bit of a special treat for you as one of the countrys top hairdressers is joining me live in the studio.
And congratulations of course to Darren Gough for winning Strictly Come Dancing on Saturday and hands up, I spelt Gough wrong on the Levy Letter on Friday, so many apologies for that! But despite spelling his name wrong, it might have been an omen, because I didnt actually see the programme, because I went to see the BBC Radio Humberside pantomime on Saturday night, but he did very well and won Strictly Come Dancing. So well done to Darren and hopefully well be able to get him on the programme again sometime in the not too distance future. Although, Im sure the entire world will be wanting to talk to him just at the moment. But as I say, on Saturday night, I was at the BBC Radio Humberside pantomime. If youve got tickets then you will enjoy Im sure, but if you havent got tickets yet, then there are just a few left and you can get them from the City Council box office at the City Hall. And well done to all my friends here, whove got the nerve and the pluck to do the pantomime. Theyre all brilliant! Thanks very much indeed for all the emails on a variety of subjects. Keep them coming in. This will be our last week of Levy Letters before Christmas. Im sure that youre much too busy this week to be reading the Levy Letter, but nevertheless Ill plough on, as only I can, and well see if we get any response this week or whether youre just too busy! Theres a note here from Graham Bray. Graham, thank you very much for getting in touch. Graham lives in Bridlington with his wife, Christine. Now, after retiring from work in Rotherham three years ago and he says, Could you please wish my wife Christine a very happy 60th birthday for 20th December. Were off to Koh Samui in Thailand on 28th December to celebrate her birthday and the receipt of her qualification for State Pension!! Can you believe that? So a very happy birthday to Christine! Have a great day and have a very lovely 60th birthday tomorrow! TV Dinners I see that dining rooms have become almost obsolete as Britons in this country are switching to TV dinners on the sofa. Gone for ever is the cosy Oxo family image of the husband, wife and children sitting around a table for their meals. According to market research, the hectic pace of life means that most children eat at different times to their parents, often whilst slumped in front of the telly. And the massive growth of single households has only added to the demise of the separate dining room. Instead, many homeowners are using the room for other purposes, such as converting it into an office with a computer on the table. I must admit that Im guilty as charged on that one! So there you, all of the family sitting around a table seems to be a thing of the past. Theres A Chance For Me Now everyone is familiar with Julio Iglesias and his pin up son, Enrique. They are no strangers to love. They sing about it and the girls of course swoon as they croon! But theyve both been upstaged by Julios father, whos announced that hes a Dad again at the age of ninety! Mr Iglesias Senior, a retired gynaecologist, has informed his family and friends that his wife Ronna is expecting. The news means that Julio will gain a new brother a few weeks before his sixty-third birthday and Julio Senior was eighty-eight when his last baby was born in May 2004. So Julio Senior and his second wife Ronna are expecting a new baby at the age of ninety! Ronna, by the way, is forty-two. So well done to the Iglesias family, to all of them. Sitcoms We talked about Sitcoms a few weeks back on the Levy Letter. These days we dont seem to be able to produce a sitcom in this country which is really funny. I know some people enjoyed it, but that one with Robert Lindsay on a Friday night with the canned laughter, I just couldnt cope with it at all. Well, sitcoms have both feet in the grave says Victoria Wood. Victoria, of course, is saying that the age of the sitcom, as we know it, is now gone and she reckons that Dinnerladies was probably the last sitcom of that type, which will ever be a success. Sketch shows too have changed, she says, and is now a young persons game, with the likes of Little Britain and the Catherine Tate Show and of course, the sitcoms, which are based more in reality, like David Brent in the Office. But the days of the ordinary sitcom like The Good Life and Fawlty Towers, Victoria Wood says, is gone, which is a great shame. If youve got a view on sitcoms or are enjoying one at the moment, then get i! n touch. And quite a few people have been in touch after the Comedy Awards last week to say why did X Factor win an award, when its not a comedy programme! Well, I must admit that whilst I was sitting here watching it on Wednesday, I was thinking the same thing. Nevertheless it did win! Calendars One week before Christmas and two weeks before the New Year, and its not too late if you want to make a last minute purchase of one of our calendars. It would make a marvellous present for someone! And we can try and bump up that figure even higher than it is already. You can get them for £5 from one of our receptions in Grimsby, Lincoln or Hull or from the BBC buses. Or you can send me a cheque for £6 to cover postage and packing made payable to the BBC to BBC Look North Calendars, Queens Court, Queens Gardens, Hull, HU1 3RH. Weve sold thousands of calendars and we now know that weve raised well over £7000, thanks to you, for Children In Need. And thats just from the sale of the calendars, which is extraordinary. My thanks to everyone whos bought a copy and everyone at the BBC here, whove done such a great job in selling the calendar and also putting it together and getting it underway back in the Autumn. So thank you very much indeed. What an extraordinary figure! Well, thats it from me for today. I wont take up any more of your time as Im sure youve got a busy day and a busy week, but join me if you can tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm for tonights Look North. Bye for now 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.
