Cheeta Cheats Death

Johnny Weissmullers best monkey buddy, Cheeta is alive and well aged 76, spending his retirement painting and eating bananas in Palm Springs California. He has recently published a book revealing all about his battle with alcohol and cigars and other of lifes travails. As they said on the radio last night, he and Elizabeth Taylor are the last of the contract actors from the golden age of Hollywood.

He is almost as old as my Dad, who is also an artist, who got over alcohol and tobacco but way more cool. He has a MySpace.

But will he get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?

Onya Cheeta, Carry On

School Concert

Last week was the School Concert. The school that the kids go to is around 200 kids and they have lovely grounds. They also lucky to have a parent that has a music supply store, who puts on the stage and sound system. The concert is outside in the early evening and is accompanied by cake stalls and the like. The kids both had their chance to shine. I remember my first school concert, in our 20 kid school in New Gilston. The concert stage was in one classroom and they opened up the divider and the parents sat in the other. I remember being dressed as a Cowboy and singing

California Here I Come
Right Back where I started from
Open up those Golden Gates
California Here I Come

I had no idea where California was. Funny that I would end up living there for a while, 35 years later.