THE nation’s favourite great-grandmother, The Queen, turned 90 this week. I’ve loved all the little insights into royal life, especially William recounting the time that he and his cousins got told off by our monarch for playing a little too boisterously at Balmoral. Everyone has got a story about their Nan or great Nan, haven’t they? My Nanny never missed an episode of University Challenge, but she never got a question right, mind you. She was an amazing cook and used to make me fish and chips from scratch on a Friday. Once she made so much of my favourite dinner that it filled three plates! I ate it all of course, as I was just trying to be a good granddaughter. The story that made me laugh so hard was about her jaunt to Brighton for the day to walk along the prom with an ice cream. Actually, she ended up at Fat Boy Slim’s gig on the beach.

I had a great night out at the Brook last Friday. I went to see a Coldplay tribute band called ‘Cold Place’ with some friends. What an inspired name! I sometimes think that half the fun of these tribute bands is the pun in their name. The Bog Rolling Stones and Blobbie Williams spring to mind. What I couldn’t get my head around though was not how well the group performed songs such as Yellow, Adventure of a Lifetime and Fix you, but how much the front man actually looked like Chris Martin. It was so weird to see his doppelgänger, not only looking like him but singing like him too.

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