Ladies and Gentlekats, it fill me with great pleasures to introduce the Meerkat Band! After many days of practice we make musical debut as we perform theme tune from telebox show known as ‘The Corrie Street’:
Coronation Street
Coronation Street Blog
I was delighted to have recently been invited by Glenda Young, editor of the fabulous Coronation Street Blog (http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.co.uk) to do a guest entry!
Now live on the Coronation Street Blog – you can read it by following this link – http://tinyurl.com/fraser-corrieblog.
I’d also like to thank Glenda for the donation to the charity of my choice, the MS Society.
Betty Driver – 1920-2011
As one of Coronation Street’s greatest fans, I was very sad to learn of the passing of Betty Driver – Betty Turpin and Williams to the millions of Coronation Street followers. A brilliant actress, who looked twenty years younger than she actually was, the vegetarian famed for her Rovers’ hot pot, she will be sadly missed.
Coro at 50 …
And, what a superb week it has been on The Street at 50!
Betty’s 90!
As many of you know, I am a great fan of Coronation Street, and today marks the 90th birthday of Coro legend Betty Williams (although Betty Driver, the actress who has played Betty for 40 years isn’t 90 in real-life until May!)
It turns out that Betty of Hot Pot fame is actuallly a vegetarian! More can be read on the excellent Coronation Street Blog at
http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/!Coronation Street Update!
A couple of years ago, I mentioned on the blog that Glenda (aka Flaming Nora) editor of Corrieblog had sent me a nice e-mail following a blog entry I had made about Coronation Street, my favourite TV programme. See http://www.dundeewestend.com/2006/10/ok-corrie-over-heres-rest.htmlAnyway, I heard from Glenda again today :
From: Glenda Young
Sent: 25 January 2009 14:38
Subject: Coronation Street
Dear Cllr Macpherson
Just to let you know I’ve moved from Corrieblog and am now blogging about Coronation Street at
http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/.
If you can link your work with Corrie at all, do let me know and I’ll give you a link and a blog post!
All the best
Glenda Young (aka Flaming Nora)
Was really good to hear from Glenda and I’m pleased to add a link to http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com – a great way to keep up with the news from the Street!
Wednesday …
Apart from a whole load of ‘day job’ activities today, I had the pleasure of attending the fascinating guided walk at Western Cemetery, ably led by Ann Prescott of the Western Cemetery Association and Iain Flett, Dundee City Council Archivist. An excellent turnout – here’s a couple of photos (above).
Later I attended the City Council Housing Working Group, of which I am a member. Good presentations and discussion on tenant participation and housing investment.
Tonight, I attended the Harris Academy Parent Council – both interesting and informative.
And … now home to recordings of ‘Coronation Street’ and ‘The Restaurant’!
