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to all my readers, followers and visitors. I hope you all have as splendid a festive break as current conditions allow and enjoy the bank holiday weekend.
No sign of Easter Parade in the schedules again this year (fast becoming an annual treat in the Partington-Plans household) but fortunately I have a previous recording that will be pressed into service again tomorrow. What is your favourite Easter film?
Happy Easter everyone, I haven't forgotten you all! (Don't worry, I've got a couple of posts lined up for the next few weeks so hopefully things will soon be back to the "new" normal here at Eclectic Ephemera.) In more exciting news I had another article published in In Retrospect magazine, with a fourth hopefully for Issue 03 in a couple of months' time!
Did you see that B.B.C. Two actually put on Easter Paradeat Easter(!), on Good Friday morning? That was a pleasant start to the Easter weekend, I thought (even though I'd recorded it from their last showing of it in... November)! I can never get enough of the incomparable Fred Astaire...
Here's hoping you've all had a wonderful Easter holiday - not too much chocolate I hope! (I actually got my first egg in years - from work! What a nice bunch of coves, eh?) Well, roll on Spring!
I've been something of a busy bee these past couple of weeks, working on mundane jobs and the odd exciting project - the latter of which I hope to have more news of soon. In the meantime, it only remains for me to wish you all a:
A Happy Easter to all my readers, may you all have wonderful time whatever you're doing. I'm away with the family for a couple of days, so we'll catch up after the Easter holidays when I look forward to seeing what you've all been up to. Don't overdo the chocolate eggs, now!
Appropriately for Easter, I saw my first daf of the year today.
Spring has definitely sprung, despite the indecisive weather.
Chances of Easter Parade being shown on the television over the Easter weekend? Probably non-existent (although I see Bringing Up Baby is on BBC2 on Saturday). Still, I leave you with this classic routine from the incomparable Fred Astaire. Happy Easter To You!