National news popped over to America where everyone was pitched into darkness and found it "Amazing" "Unbelievable" "Awesome" and "Exciting" amongst other words.
"It's so beautiful," said one woman as she burst into tears. The coverage was so awful I thought they had started the One Show half an hour early.
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I was going to liken a comment to Robin Hood but then forgot what I was going to comment on. Something probably about robbing the rich to give to the poor.
So instead I conjured up memories of the Robin Hood series with Richard Greene with an e dressed in Lincoln Green without an e and wearing a silly hat. Do you remember the day he shot a bolt through an apple on his son's head?
Whoops that was William Tell of course. Robin just fought Little Richard before he became a rock n roll star. Blast I've done it again as it was Little John.
Of course Richard Greene with an e was always trapping on about evil King John and the glorious Richard The Lionheart who eventually came back to England to honour Robin. Actually Richard First was a pretty duff king, spending very little time in England and lots of time fighting The Salad King in the Crusades.
Then our boys were always entranced by the other Robin Hood who was a fox, but still dressed in green with a silly hat. This was a Disney creation.
But back to Richard Greene with an e. The Adventures of Robin Hood ran for 143 episodes from 1955 to 1959 but I remember it well so I might well have been watching repeats.
Greene has a Norfolk connection not many will be aware of. He died in 1985 at his home Kelling Hall near Holt. It's what is known as a whopping great country pile.
So who played William Tell? I racked my brain and eventually it came to me. It was Conrad Phillips. It ran from 1958 to 1959. I don't remember much other than the apple. There wouldn't have been much of a programme of course if he had missed and hit his son in some unmentionable place. I do remember he was always up against a very fat man who I remember as being Willoughby Goddard who could always have the luxury of turning his names round and becoming Goddard Willoughby. In the past I have written under the pen name of Scott Willoughby which is actually a village in Lincolnshire.
I always get Richard Greene, Conrad Phillips and Lorne Greene mixed up. Lorne Greene also with an e cof course was the dad in Bonanza. Good job he didn't switch his names round as that would have made him Green Lorne. There was a Norfolk police commissioner a few years ago with the name Lorne Greene. Both Lorne Greenes came/come from Canada.
Watched Norwich City play Sheffield Wednesday on television. They weren't actually playing on television of course. They were playing on a pitch. We threw more points away thanks to playing the usual backwards football. We were 2-0 up inside 16 minutes and ended up drawing 2-2. Away from home there's only five teams in the league with a worse record than us which just proves our negative tactics don't work. On Tuesday we should have been out of sight but once again caved in.
I think that's enough nonsense for one day. What do you say?