Lovely

Sometimes real news breaks out. My "old mans' pub" drinks at lunchtime in London W1 were disturbed by a younger, noisier crowd.  It turned out that they had all been made redundant that morning from one of the photographic/makeover studios that have proliferated in recent years along Great Portland Street and Great Titchfield Street.   They were being paid for their work to date, but no more.

When I say younger, there was one familiar, slightly older face. A woman my generation knows as "The Lovely Aimi MacDonald" was there, as she had been doing some work for the company. Though she'd paid her dues in West End Musicals, she first came to tv attention in "At Last The 1948 Show" in 1967, a programme widely seen as a precursor to Monty Python's Flying Circus. It was produced for ITV by David Frost, and starred Marty Feldman, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Tim Brooke-Taylor.

If Wikipedia is to be believed, Aimi is now 69.  She looks considerably younger than that.