"I'm a dancer! I love to dance!"

Daft cow.

I hate that advert. You know, the big-budget Chanel one that's been doing the round every Christmas for years, in which Nicole Kidman plays an enigmatic yet troubled movie star who just wants to get away from it all. It took me at least 10 watches before I realised there was actually a story, and it was all CGI bollocks. I find Kidman irritating, and that unshaven dolt she cops off with on the roof of what appears to be some skyscraper in 1930s New York is beyond parody.

On the other hand, my current favourite advert is the M&S one where Take That go to Twiggy's house for Christmas, and it's snowing.

That fox who creeps downstairs in her peignoir would make my Christmas, and anywhere Myleene is I'm happy to be. I have to say though, Take That are no good advert for the clothes. Mark Owen looks like Eddie Waring in that trilby, and Gary has never been a style icon. Ever.

But it looks like fun. I love Twiggy.

No Wonder of Woolies ads this year. Shame. I remember one marathon effort with Anita Harris on ice skates from yesteryear. That's what Christmas was all about, wasn't it? Not a reed thin boyish actress being paid trillions to advertise a scent.

Those were her days

I'm rather fond of the voice of Mary Hopkin. I was thinking about her after hearing her song Goodbye pop http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.photo.gifup on my ipod. You'll know she was in the Apple stable, which I always find quite incongruous, though most of the Apple stars were.

Only a few hits and then she was gone. She did some great singles - Temma Harbour, Think About Your Children and, of course, Those Were The Days. Her album Postcard is a classic must have too. Lots of Donovan songs on there, and I love it when she sings in Welsh. It's almost as good as someone singing in French.

It's a shame we went quiet though. I see from her Wikipedia page - if it's to be believed - that she's still recording. And I do recall that 'supergroup' she was in with Peter Skellern, called Oasis. Never heard this project though.



It's a shame she gave it all up. Twiggy apparently discovered her on Opportunity Knocks, though how, when half the country was watching it too, can she take the credit for it God only knows.

There's a very unilluminating website, and it seems she never gives interviews or signs autographs, so we'll never really know her reasons for backing away from the limelight. Such huge promise and then she chose to retreat.

Still I've bought the live from 1972 album from the website with a lovely pic of her on it, so to me she'll always be remembered as the blonde girl in the miniskirt balancing a guitar on her shapely knee.