A quick note about tomorrow's Hello You Sunday Supplement

Also: Bring Me Sunshine ...

Hello, you. How’s your Saturday so far?

I’m working on tomorrow’s Hello You Sunday Supplement, the weekly newsletter where I share a bunch of links and recommendations pointing you to good stuff. (Now that algorithms have flattened everything and we’re being served utter rubbish and AI slop in our newsfeeds, if I can help you find some content that’s worth reading, I think I ought to.)

Reviewing some of the pieces I’d saved to share with you, I noticed many of them were not the positive, uplifting material that’s good for what ails yer. They were smart, intelligent commentary on important matters by clever writers, but would reading them on a Sunday morning make you feel better and brighter? Would it potatoes.

So I’ve just removed them from consideration. Tomorrow morning’s Hello You Sunday Supplement will contain none of them, but it WILL include twenty to thirty really interesting and engaging items that’ll make you feel more positive, well-informed and amused, too. So will all future Sunday Supplements.

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Preparing tomorrow’s newsletter is making me feel better after another shitty news week. I’m sure that reading it will have the same effect on you! I hope that in the darkness of winter, Hello You - both the podcast and the Sunday Supplement - can bring you some sunshine. On the subject of which …

‘What do you think of it so far?’

You might have heard in the current episode of the Hello You podcast that on Thursday night I went to the preview viewing evening of the Eric Morecambe Collection. It’s a huge auction of, essentially, the entire contents of Eric Morecambe’s house. Eric died in 1984, but his widow Joan only passed away last March, and she was reluctant to part with any of the family possessions from Eric’s lifetime.

Those possessions include stage clothes and props, incredible caches of scripts dating back to the 1940s, letters to and from celebrities, Eric’s handwritten notes and annotated joke books and so, so much more.

I was at the evening with Georgy Jamieson of the British Comedy Society. Here we are paying tribute to the great man with the archetypal specs-askew pose.

The auction ran all day yesterday, and it’s running again right now. I’d hoped to bid on a portable TV - imagine owning Eric Morecambe’s television! - but it went for £400. However, I’m watching closely online to see when certain other lots come up. There are some very rare records, including 78rpm BBC and private acetates of radio shows from as early as 1948, and there’s a mono radiogram which was in Eric’s study in the early 1960s. Wish me luck!

Georgy was hoping to snag Eric Morecambe’s black bow tie and matching cummerbund, but found herself the proud owner of five bow ties of different colours, and some of the great man’s handkerchiefs.

It was great to meet Gail, Eric Morecambe’s daughter, who Georgy’s known for a while, and who signed my copy of the catalogue, with a dedication to my dad, who’s been a fan of Morecambe & Wise since before I was born.

Hope you enjoyed the newsletter what I wrote

I’ll send you the Sunday Supplement first thing-ish tomorrow. Have a good evening!