Hello, its Peter here and welcome to Tuesdays Levy Letter. I hope your day is going well and that youll be able to join me tonight for all the days news on BBC1 at 6.30pm. Paul will have the forecast and our special guest tonight, if youre interested in property and watch Property Ladder on the TV, then Sarah Beeny is my guest. She presents the programme. She lives between London and her home in East Yorkshire and shes back now for Christmas and I shall be talking to Sarah tonight on the programme. And well also be having some more live music from a choir singing something Christmassy of course to play us out tonight on the programme. I hope youll be able to join me tonight.
What Our Children Want So what do our children rate as some of the best things in the world. Well, according to a list thats just been published, money and getting rich is number one, being famous is number two, playing football is number three and pop music is number four, which is then followed by animals, families, computer games, seaside holidays, nice food and God is at number ten! And the worst? All that they dont like drunk people, smoking, litter, graffiti, war, bullies, illness, shopping, being bored, and nightmares! So there you are, the lifestyles that children admire have been revealed. They believe that fame and fortune and football and pop music are the best things in the world. As I say, God just scrapes in at number ten, behind nice food, seaside holidays and computer games. Interesting reading! I dont think too many people will be surprised by that list! Dog Lover Well, Ive seen some things this Christmas as far as presents are concerned, and Ive mentioned a few in the Levy Letter, but the pet stroller takes the biscuit! Its easy to manoeuvre, its a lightweight stroller, which makes outings with your pet or trips to the vet as easy as pushing a baby buggy for the simple reason that that is what it is! You put the dog in the buggy and its got four wheels, and it looks from the outside just like a pram, but in fact it is a doggy buggy. A pet stroller, as they call it. Can you believe it? I never thought Id see the day. Its designed for dogs and cats up to twenty-five pounds. It says its ideal for older people with hip and joint ailments. Well, its not very good for dog walking, but its called the pet stroller. So, if you have a mere £50, then it is available! It really is the most bizarre thing. Its a shame we cant do pictures in the Levy Letter! One of these days, we will be able to. Darren Gough I mentioned yesterday well done to Darren Gough, the Fred Astaire of Barnsley, for doing so well in Strictly Come Dancing. You cant move now through the papers for stories about him and his two boys and also his wife, Anna, who hes been separated from for two years apparently. The papers are obsessed now with whether or not theyll get back together again. I dont know about that, but I certainly know hes a brave man if he sets up a dancing school in Barnsley. That said, it would be a bit of a Billy Elliot story and maybe he would do very well. Ive interviewed Darren Gough, as we say down the line and have never actually met him face to face, but he seems such a nice chap and very down to earth. Anyway, we do wish him well and Im sure well continue to read about Darren Gough. And I know were trying to get him back on the programme again one day soon. Dont forget if theres anyone youd like to see interviewed on the sofa, somebody youd like to see on the programme to have a chat with me one day, then drop me a line. Of course you can get me any time by writing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ipods Im a recent convert to ipods, after getting one for my fiftieth birthday in September. Theres something of an irony there that you get a trendy gadget when you get to fifty. But users of ipods, I read, and other personal digital music players were warned that they risk permanent damage to their hearing. Scientists said that ear phones found on ipods and MP3 players have left many teenagers and young adults with hearing problems normally found in the elderly. More than fifteen million iPods and MP3 players have been sold in Britain since their launch and many more will be given as presents this Christmas. Well, as someone who started wearing headphones at the age of nineteen, when I did my first radio programme and have used them ever since, then Im slightly mutton jeff anyway! I tell you when I notice it as well often my mobile phone will ring and I wont even hear it. People will say, oh your phones ringing and I wont hear it! So Im half way there anyway, so what ! with that and now the iPod, by this time next year, I wont be able to hear a thing. Anyway, you have been warned by these statistics just out. Be A Winner Working hard and having the right contacts is one way to climb the career ladder. But according to scientists, if you want to be really successful, all you have to do is smile. Happy people it seems tend to achieve more than those with a more miserable outlook. This is because they are more likely to seek out new goals and challenges. Fulfilling these goals often lead to success in careers and relationships. Did they really need scientists to work that one out? I could have told them that one for nothing. And their positives moods are more likely to make them more energetic, outgoing and popular: all attributes that help them do well at work. As a result cheerful souls are more likely to be paid more and have happier marriages and live longer than their glum peers. So there you are. Thank goodness weve got scientists to tell us things like that, otherwise we would never have managed to work that one out for ourselves! Calendar Dont forget as we move into the last few days of 2005, its not too late to get a calendar for Christmas and for the New Year - The Look North Peter and Paul Calendar. And in the Levy Letter tomorrow, I will have the latest figures on just how much weve raised so far and how many calendars weve sold. If youve bought one, then thank you very much. If you havent got one, then theyre still available. Just pop down to one of our receptions in Hull, Grimsby or Lincoln. They are £5 of course. Or send in a cheque for £6 made payable to the BBC to cover postage and packing. Well, thats it from me for today. Join me tonight on BBC1. Have a lovely day. 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.
