Arise! Arise!

And a jolly good Monday to you all. My weekend highlight was to pass away a few hours at Bristol Parkway station where, having missed a train, I got to spend an hour or so with the assorted crisp wrappers and discarded crusts that seem very popular there. We blew away a small space and perched,not breathing, for as long as we could manage. This was on the way back from the Cheltenham Science Festival which was a hoot and met loads of listeners and listener's children. And in a few cases,their children's children. I was, by some way, the least scientific person there but we all got along fine and I got to give Robert Winston a book (my book obviously otherwise that would be stupid). He said he would read it and apparently was seen doing just that yesterday.

And father's day brought chocolate, sherbet lemons and a mug with (wait for it) the periodic table on it. Just in case I need to check my transition metals and noble gasses.

And today (after watching the new Spiderman film) we welcome the freshly knighted SIR Kenneth Brannagh! Yes it's really him! The star of so many films (most recently My Week With Marylin) and director (most recently Thor) is talking Scandinavian cop hit Wallender and sundry matters. So oldies then for THE NEWLY KNIGHTED. KNIGHTS and DAMES are the lowest form of nobility but it sounds pretty darn good to the rest of us. Some love the SIR (Ben Kingsley), some hate it (Ridley Scott), but we salute them all (morning Sir Terry, a secret blog reader).

Have a sane and coherent Monday. See you after 5.