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The song I have sent you this week is one that failed to make the classical music charts which it should have done. It came about after Radio City\u2019s Norman Thomas told his listeners how he went out to buy a dibber\u2026which is a garden tool used for manually boring holes in the ground to plant seeds in\u2026.so Norm buys what he thinks is a dibber only to get home and find he\u2019s bought a handle off a shovel\u2026.he took a lot of stick over this so I came up with The Dibber Song and sent it to him\u2026.he played it every day for about a fortnight. On one occasion he was interviewing Cilla about her forthcoming panto and played this song to her and got her to join in on the chorus\u2026.but sadly never put it on any of her albums\u2026\u2026.I wonder why.\n\n We have a new golden girl\u2026.the wonderful Jessica Ennis is world champion again\u2026.she is a great role model for sport which,as we discussed recently,is about WINNING. Let\u2019s hope a good proportion of our youth switch off their computers and iPhones and get out there\u2026..then perhaps they\u2019ll stop moaning about being bullied on line\u2026.and hats off to Usain Bolt who did it again \u2026just as well because if the other guy had won we would never have heard the end of it\u2026.all good stuff\u2026.better not mention the final test match.\n\n \n\n3.The BBC are \u201csacking\u201d the Met office who have been supplying them with weather predictions for years\u2026.it\u2019s about time too\u2026the forecasts can be very iffy\u2026.I use the weather channel on the phone and it is very accurate\u2026so why don\u2019t the Beeb use this instead\u2026\u2026.the local forecast has been atrocious and Diane Oxberry comes on next day and makes a joke of it\u2026.\u201doooh we got it wrong yesterday hee hee\u201d which is all very well but a lot of people depend on the forecast and base their day on it\u2026..so with a bit of luck we might start getting decent forecasts from the Beeb for a change.\n\n \n\n4.There has been huge news coverage of the plane crash at the display in West Sussex\u2026.again a terrible tragedy\u2026these things seem to be happening a bit too much lately.\n\nThe fact that passers by lose their lives makes it worse.\n\nHow unlucky can you be to be hit by a plane whilst travelling on the main road\u2026..I think this needs to be thought about a lot more\u2026..the Red Arrows give a display every year in a local place called Hoylake\u2026but they do it over the sea for this reason\u2026maybe this practice should be adopted by everyone\u2026.the \u201cexperts\u201d have been saying that there has been no public fatalities since 1952\u2026which they seem to think makes it all O.K\u2026..ONE loss of life is one too many\u2026nothing is worth that\u2026..anyway it looks like things will change.\n\n \n\n5.I\u2019ve lost a lot of sleep lately since hearing the news that One Direction are splitting up\u2026.Oh My!!...there has been a lot of tears\u2026mainly from their management and record company\u2026oh yes and from the teeny boppers.\n\nI\u2019ve never felt this bad since The Dooleys split up !!!....Harry Stiles?...that\u2019s the only name I know\u2026and they have sold 50 million records\u2026.it\u2019s a sad time for us all\u2026I\u2019m sure the immigrants who are running for their lives will be very upset about it.\n\nThey all sound the same to me\u2026but then again I am 60 years outside the age range.\n\nI don\u2019t know why they call these guys BANDS\u2026they are a vocal group\u2026a BAND plays instruments\u2026like McFly\u2026.who are good\u2026.and have a bit of talent.