number 1 3 August 2009
I am so looking forward to seeing Sue Johnston tomorrow morning for the BBC Breakfast show!* She is one of the great and gentle ladies of showbiz and a total joy to work with. She is never in bad form (once, having had her back seen to IN HOSPITAL after work one evening and then back in to film again the following morning at 7am she told me she was a little cranky – eh, she was NOT, but even that sort of admission from Sue is HUGE!) and she smiles a LOT – nothing to complain about there, then, eh? She is number 1 on the Jam and Jerusalem cast list to my number 2 and we often refer to ourselves by these numbers while talking to one another – a flurry of texts tonight began with same…
There’s a new clan of magpies maturing nearby the Dublin abode. They are cheeky little blighters and no mistake. Hilariously, though, they look like teenagers – bit thin and cocky and straggly – the equivalent of the spotty adolescent of the bird world, I’m thinking.
*mind you, I’m not sure I am required as they announced today that Pauline McFinn would be appearing – there’s my bubble burst , I can tell you…
