Longtime readers will remember March, when Joseph took over the reins of this blog in my absence on a City Break Beginning With B.
<div align="center">Christmas 1998 (Peace on Earth...!)</div>
It only seems like yesterday when he was born.
Just before he was born, his godmother phoned to say I had just exchanged on my house. I then sat down to watch Tony Blair's sppeech to Conference, the first time Bambi really impressed me.
The evening news was torn between headlining on OJ Simpson's acquittal and the start of Rosemary West's trial.
On this day in 1952, tea rationing ended.
Celebrity birthdays:
1916: James Herriot
1925: Gore Vidal
1936: Steve Reich 
1938: Eddie Cochran
1941: Ruggero Raimondi
1941: Chubby Checker
1954: Al Sharpton
1964: Clive Owen
1969: Gwen Stefani
