Hello, it’s Peter here. Welcome to Monday’s Levy Letter. I hope your day is 
going well. I hope your weekend was good and I hope you’ll be able to join me 
tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm. 

Last week, we got onto the subject of doing jobs around the house. We launched 
a little competition – ‘Hire Peter For The Morning!’ Well, find out just who 
actually managed to get me to go to their house and how I got on tonight. We’ll 
also have a special guest on the programme, Paul will have the weather, we’ll 
have all the day’s news and a sport update as well. There’s the advert, so I 
hope you can join me tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm for Look North.

Thanks very much for all the emails over the last few days. I’m most grateful. 
If you want to drop me a line, then of course you can direct, no one else will 
see it, it’ll come straight to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Thanks also to the extra people, who have signed up over the last few days. We 
know there’s been quite a few additions to the Levy Letter subscribers. If you 
know someone, who’s not getting a Levy Letter and would like one, then spread 
the word. All they’ve got to do is go to www.bbc.co.uk/humber or 
www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire, go on to the website, click on Levy Letter, follow 
the instructions through and then from tomorrow onwards they will get their 
daily email from me.

We were talking last week, well I was saying how I was hoping to get a digital 
camera. Well, I managed to get one and there’s a booklet here the size of the 
Bible! I thought, well that’ll be alright. I’ve treated myself to the camera, 
so I want to read the booklet and do it right, and besides it won’t take too 
long to read, because it’s bound to be repeated in several different languages 
– no it isn’t! It’s not meant for several different countries, it’s all 
English, so I’m afraid I haven’t yet got very far into it. The only reason I 
mention this is because Sue Walford has emailed in, she says, “If you find out 
how to get the photos from the camera memory card onto the computer, and how to 
send them to people, then please do explain how in simple language for simple 
people like me! I have a camera, I have the photos on the memory card, but from 
then on I am lost!” Sue, I am the wrong person to talk to at the moment. I am 
working on it. And I might have some information for y!
 ou later in the week, which begs the question – I wonder how many other people 
have gadgets, which they don’t actually know how to use or only use the basics 
of and could do with some education through programmes. Because everybody 
assumes that people know how to email. I reckon it would make a really 
interesting radio or TV programme to have basic hints and tips for people to 
show them what to do. I might be wrong. Your views of course on that one 
gratefully received.


A new survey is out which says that eight out of ten women find bearded men 
unsexy! That’s mainly because many of them only have beards if they’re too lazy 
to shave and the rest think it’s a handy place to keep bite size portions of 
their food in when they feel a bit peckish! That’s disgusting isn’t it? Well, 
the new survey says that eight out of ten women find bearded men unsexy. 
Calling all bearded men readers of the Levy Letter, if there are any, your 
views on that one please!


John Prescott

I was talking on the programme a few weeks before Christmas to Des Lynam about 
taking over Countdown. Des was chatting and said, John Prescott’s in your part 
of the world isn’t he? I said, yes, he’s local MP for Hull East and he said, 
well he’s heavily involved at the moment in some planning permission for 
Brighton Football Club. So, I didn’t think much more about it, but then of 
course, two or three days later, I found out that John Prescott has given 
planning permission for a new twenty-two thousand seat stadium for the Sussex 
club. He took the unusual step of overruling two planning inspectors by 
approving plans for a new club on the outskirts of Brighton. This was, as I 
say, just a few months or so back. So, John Prescott is now the hero amongst 
the Brighton supporters down there. Brighton and Hove Albion is the name of the 
club and now John Prescott features in their new football chanting song, which 
the supporters on the terraces sing. It goes, “He’s fat, he’s round, h!
 e gave us our ground, John Prescott, John Prescott!” It’s quite good isn’t it? 
So there you are, well done to John becoming a hero with the Brighton and Hove 
Albion supporters.


Sprouts 

No not sprouts for Christmas, or sprouts to cook, but it’s turning into the 
auction battle of the decade. Internet users are fighting over the privilege to 
own one cooked sprout – this is on ebay. Can you believe it? Well, I don’t 
understand this, not one jot! Apparently, bidding for this vegetable, one 
cooked sprout, has already shot up to £1400! The sprout has been offered by a 
woman called Rachel, but as the bids pour in, Rachel’s opening offer of nearly 
£1200 was easily topped, so she upped it and last night the price was still 
rising. Now the sale looks like raising thousands of pounds by the time the 
auction closes. Why would anybody want to pay £1400 for a sprout? Beats me! But 
at the weekend, I did buy some broccoli from the supermarket, which I had with 
some pasta on Saturday. There’s a chunk of the broccoli left. If anybody wants 
to bid, then I’m starting the bidding at 20p! Well, that’s a joke of course, 
because we’re not allowed to do auctions at the BBC so don’t!
  take that seriously! As if anybody would!


Programme

Don’t forget if you’ve got any ideas, or photos that you think we should see or 
a story that you think we might be able to tackle on the programme, then do let 
me know. Drop me a line and send me the details and we’ll see what we can do. 
If you’ve got a problem that you think we might be able to help with, then 
Leave it to Levy is that place. Drop me a line and give me the details, tell me 
the story and send me a contact number as well. Just a reminder you can get me 
anytime on [EMAIL PROTECTED] 


Big Brother

Am I the only person in the world, who’s not watching Big Brother at the 
moment? It seems from reading the paper that everybody else is watching. I 
haven’t seen an episode yet. How long does it go on for? I don’t know… a week? 
I haven’t yet seen Mr Barrymore or Roula Lenska – what is she doing on the 
programme, I was really surprised to see her and surprised that she agreed to 
do it. Am I being a fuddy duddy or are you enjoying it? Let me know. 


Well, that’s it from me for today. Have a good Monday. Join me tonight on BBC1 
at 6.30pm and look out for your Levy Letter tomorrow.

Bye for now

Peter


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